Be more grateful, and less worried.

It's today I must be living.

Let us move into the New Year with a great sense of the thrill of living.

We are on this planet but once, and to spend it holding back our gushing appreciation of the things that light us up is a shameful waste.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can't let our circumstances or what others do or don't do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

I am happy every day, because life is moving in a very positive way.

I am an athlete for Christ. That's why I play for Him, to give Him glory, to thank Him for giving me the ability to play football.

I need to go out and play football and have fun. If I do that, then everything will be fine.

With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.

I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff.

One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway… We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking… The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.

In my experience, if you are not radically grateful every day, resentment always takes over.