"Gratitude
goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of
life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a
spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I
realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline
of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and
have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with
joy.”
- Henri J.M. Nouwen
