Even the smallest tender mercy can bring peace when recognized and appreciated.

Disappointments tend to polish our gratitude. Once we pass through a dark tunnel of disappointment, we more fully appreciate every flicker of light.

You cannot appreciate what you have never experienced. Sadly, full appreciation tends to come only after the experience is past.

You can believe what you've been told. You can imagine in vivid detail the things explained to you. You may even feel emotions assumed to accompany the related experience. But you absolutely cannot know something with any real degree of understanding until you've personally walked the road yourself.

One grateful thought is a ray of sunshine.  A hundred such thoughts paint a sunrise.  A thousand will rival the glaring sky at noonday - for gratitude is light against the darkness.

The past exists to make us appreciative, aware, and wise. It is a lesson, nothing more.

Be thankful for your allotment in an imperfect world.  Though better circumstances can be imagined, far worse are nearer misses than you probably care to realize.

Gratitude paints little smiley faces on everything it touches.

Night helps us appreciate daylight, while lengthy days make us yearn for a good stretch of night.