The Best Things in Life

One day I wondered,
"if the best things in life aren't things,
then what are they?"
Instantly I had a flood of ideas.
Enjoy this list, and be sure to add your own!
Love & Joy, Ingrid

A: amazement, awe, attention, awareness, astonishment, abundance, attitude, articulation, appreciation,
acceptance, altruism, affirmation, authenticity, art, aunts...
B: beauty, boldness, blessings, bird-song, birth,
bliss, blossoming, balance, breath, being, brothers...
C: compassion, courage, caring, creativity,
celebrating, contemplation, connecting, centering,
chanting, cooking, crafting, clowning, community,
courtesy, communication, commitment,contribution,
choice, cheer, comfort, cousins, childhood, children...
D: determination, dreams, devotion, dancing, diversity,
divinity, dignity, discipline, delight, daring, daughters...
E: elegance, excitement, enlightenment, energy, earth,
eloquence, enthusiasm, equality, empathy, epiphanies,
eternity, experience, embraces, exploring, exercise, elders...
F: freedom, fairness, fire, fantasy, faith, fun, forgiveness, friendship, friends, flowing, fatherhood, fathers...
G: generosity, gratitude, God, grace, growth, goodness,
giving,genius, grandchildren, grandparents...
H: hope, happiness, hilarity, healing, helping, humor, health, hospitality,holiness, humanity, humility, harmony, hugs, honesty, husbands...
I: insight, inspiration, imagination, intuition, intelligence, intimacy, illumination, imperfection, ineffable, inter-being, inquiry, intention, integrity, ideas, idleness...
J: joy, jubilation, justice, journeys...
K: kindness, kisses, kinship, knowledge, kids...
L: love, laughter, life, listening, literacy, light,
learning, lingering, loafing...
M: mystery, miracles, mindfulness, magic, mastery,
musing, marriage, motherhood, mothers...
N: nature, nurturing, nobility, napping, naturalness,nieces, nephews...
O: optimism, openness, oneness, opportunity...
P: peace, prosperity, patience, plenty, play, poetry,painting, places, praise, possibility, purpose, passion, presence, partners, people...
Q: questions, questing...
R: rejoicing, reading, running, respect, romance, receiving, radiance, refuge, reflection, relaxing, rest, reality, relationships...
S: spirit, strength, sharing, study, singing, sincerity, smiling, space, stillness, silliness, service, soul, sacred, shadows, sky,
simplicity, sanctuary, splendor, sisters, sons...
T: trust, tenderness, thoughts, thanksgiving, thoughtfulness, teaching, talking, transformation, truth, teamwork...
U: universe, unity, uncles...
V: vision, vitality, virtue, vigor, voyages...
W: wisdom, wakefulness, work, writing, wonder, witness,
within, wholeheartedness, wholeness, wandering, wives...
X: exhilaration, exuberance, expanding...
Y: youth, yearning, YOU...
Z: zaniness, zest...

This list of Best Things was compiled by
Ingrid Goff-Maidoff (copyright 2005)
for the Portions Of Joy Newsletter,
a newsletter of uplifting quotes and ideas from
Sarah's Circle Publishing~