May your blessings be plentiful on this day and throughout the coming year. I hope you will enjoy reading some of my favorite quotes for this special holiday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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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. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. – Melody Beattie<\/p>\n
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our Thanksgiving.\u00a0
\n– W. T. Purkiser<\/p>\n
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. – Willie Nelson<\/p>\n
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.\u00a0– John Fitzgerald Kennedy<\/p>\n
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. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon<\/p>\n
Gratitude begins where my sense of entitlement ends. – Steven Furtick<\/p>\n
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust<\/p>\n
Every day is a day to be thankful. Life’s abundance has no limit, and gratitude is what keeps that abundance flowing. In every circumstance there is something for which to be thankful. Even when there seems to be nothing else, there is hope. – Ralph Marston<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0– Henry Ward Beecher<\/p>\n
A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for. – Norman Vincent Peale<\/p>\n
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues. – Cicero\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received.\u00a0 Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling.\u00a0 Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse. – Henry Van Dyke<\/p>\n
Thanksgiving, like contentment, is a learned attribute. The person who hasn’t learned to be content will not be thankful, for he lives with the delusion he deserves more or something better.\u00a0– Robert Flatt<\/p>\n
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.- Cynthia Orzick<\/p>\n
We would worry less if we praised more.\u00a0 Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.
\n– Henry Allen Ironside<\/p>\n
Attitude is the sign of noble souls. – Aesop
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\nIf the only prayer you said in your whole life was \u201cthank you,\u201d that would suffice. – Meister Eckhart<\/p>\n
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.\u00a0– Gilbert K. Chesterton
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\nI cried because I had no shoes until I saw the man who had no feet\u2026 –\u00a0unknown
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\nHow wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age\u2026Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people.\u00a0– John Templeton<\/p>\n
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
\n– Thornton Wilder
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\nIf you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. – W. Clement Stone
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\nBe 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. – Oprah Winfrey
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\nThe roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. – Dalai Lama<\/p>\n
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. – Charles Dickens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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