As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
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.
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
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.
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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.
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.
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.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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.
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors.
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