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.
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.
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings.
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.
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!
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —
Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.
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 can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.
On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart.
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
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