Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

  For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.—Louisa May Alcott

 Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little—Buddha

 Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.—Henri Frederic Amiel

 You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.
        —Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.—Epicurus

 One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.—Carl Jung (September/back to school or June/graduation?)



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