Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'
I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.
How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child's personality. A child is resentful, negative, or thankful. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people.
Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.
Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
You know that just before that first Thanksgiving dinner there was one wise, old Native American woman saying, Don't feed them. If you feed them, they'll never leave.
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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