Thank You

For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

A Dinner of Herbs

"Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox and hatred therewith."

--Proverbs

Joy

"Joy is prayer.  Joy is strength.  Joy is love.  Joy is a net of love
by which you can catch souls.  She gives most who gives with joy."
--Mother Teresa 

Somewhere

“For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.”

--Ivan Panin

Heart to heart

“A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.”

--Charles Dickens

A grateful heart

Thou hast given so much to me,
Give one thing more, - a grateful heart;
Not thankful when it pleaseth me,
As if Thy blessings had spare days,
But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
--George Herbert

Jewels

"On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . .”

--Charles Dickens