Thanksgiving And Family Quotes

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.

Melody Beattie

Inspirational, Life, Change

Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

Oscar Wilde

Family, Thanksgiving, Food

1893 Lady Caroline. A Woman of No Importance, act 2.

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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.

Oprah Winfrey

Positive, Thank You, Thanksgiving

FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Oct 03, 2011

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God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'

William Arthur Ward

Thank You, Thanksgiving, God

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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.

Jon Stewart

Funny, Thanksgiving, Holiday

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The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Dalai Lama

Inspirational, Positive, Thank You

Dalai Lama (1994). “The Path to Enlightenment”, p.105, Shambhala

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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.

Bobby Jindal

Family, Thanksgiving, Real

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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.

Victor Hugo

Thanksgiving, Prayer, Wings

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I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Elbert Hubbard

Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

Elbert Hubbard (1916). “The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard”

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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!

Henry Ward Beecher

Thank You, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.66

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Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Melody Beattie

Happiness, Thanksgiving, Thank You

Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, Hazelden Publishing

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The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

William Blake

Happiness, Thank You, Thanksgiving

William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.133, Pearson Education

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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.

Frank A. Clark

Motivational, Thanksgiving, Thankful

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As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

John F. Kennedy

Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.836, Best Books on

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Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Henry Van Dyke

Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Kindness

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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.

Albert C. Barnes

Thanksgiving, Thankful, Dark

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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.

John Templeton

Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Children

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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.

Johnny Carson

Thanksgiving, Holiday, Emotional

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Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.

Melody Beattie

Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Fullness Of Life

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Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

Horace

Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Being Thankful

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Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.

P. J. O'Rourke

Thanksgiving, Years, Thankfulness

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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

William Faulkner

Thank You, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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.

Dylan Brody

Thanksgiving, Wise, Native American

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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

O. Henry

Thanksgiving, One Day, Biscuits

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