The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
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.
We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Reflect upon your present blessings
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.
Thanksgiving is the day when you turn to another family member and say, 'How long has Mom been drinking like this?' My Mom, after six Bloody Marys looks at the turkey and goes, 'Here, kitty, kitty.'
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.
What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings.
Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
I give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn lessons we could not fully comprehend by any other means.
Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving," and the words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy tell us that, "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —
Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings.
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
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