No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.
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.
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.
Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.
Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to express it. What happens here is a spiraling ascent, a process of growth in ever expanding circles around a steady center.
The funny thing about Thanksgiving ,or any big meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it then go home and cook,chop,braise and blanch. Then it's gone in 20 minutes and everybody lies around sortof in a sugar coma and then it takes 4 hours to clean it up.
There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.
On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.
There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.
We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
You cannot do a kindness too soon.
Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing.
The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.
To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.
O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.
The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.
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