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.
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little
Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude.
And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
All across America, we gather this week with the people we love to give thanks to God for the blessings in our lives.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.
For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends... Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.
Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.
Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.
Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?
It is impossible to be negative while we are giving thanks.
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
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.
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!
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
If you count all your assets you always show a profit.
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
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