“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”– Melody Beattie Related Quotes “Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.”— Jack Kornfield “These things are lost to oblivion like so much about so many who are born and die without anyone taking the time to write it all down. That Litvinoff had a wife who was so devoted is, to be frank, the only reason anyone knows anything about him at all.”— Nicole Krauss “What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.”— Marva Collins