Thanksgiving Thoughts

•  Who does not thank for little will not thank for much. (Estonian proverb)

•  Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night. (Irving Berlin)

•  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! (Henry Ward Beecher)

•  Do not get tired of doing what is good. Don't get discouraged and give up, for we will reap a harvest of blessing at the appropriate time. (Galatians 6:9)

•  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. (Konrad von Gesner)

•  Once, when my feet were bare, and I had not the means of obtaining shoes I came to the chief of Kufah in a state of much dejection, and saw there a man who had no feet. I returned thanks to God and acknowledged his mercies, and endured my want of shoes with patience. (Sadi, The Gulistan)

•  The pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts . nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. (H. W. Westermayer)

•  On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence. (William Jennings Bryan)

•  Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. (WT Purkiser)

•  "To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude." (Albert Schweitzer)

•  "Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all." (William Faulkner)

•  "I do not think of all the misery, but of the glory that remains. Go outside into the fields, nature and the sun, go out and seek happiness in yourself and in God. Think of the beauty that again and again discharges itself within and without you and be happy." (Anne Frank)

•  "Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds."-1901 (Theodore Roosevelt)

•  "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)

•  "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)

•  To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven." (Johannes A. Gaertner)

•  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. (Konrad von Gesner)

•  Thank God every day when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. (Basil Carpenter)

•  God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends. (Ethel Watts Mumford)