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"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."
~ Charles Spurgeon

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"The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

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"It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others."
~ James Smith

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"Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing—a grateful heart!"
~ George Herbert

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"Gratitude is the least of the virtues, but ingratitude is the worst of vices."
~ Thomas Fuller

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"We give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way."
~ Unknown

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"Being Thankful is not in a day, but it’s a lifestyle."
~ Unknown

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If you don’t appreciate what you have, you may as well not have it.
~ Rosalene Glickman

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The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
~ William Blake

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Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.
~ Buddha

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The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.
~ William James

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Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.
~ Rumi

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Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
~ Jean Baptiste Massieu

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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
~ John Ortberg

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We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
~ Cynthia Ozick

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Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
~ Leroy Satchel Paige

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We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.
~ John F. Kennedy

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Be 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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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.
-Henry Ward Beecher

Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
- ~Alexander Pope

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He who thanks but with the lips Thanks but in part; The full, the true Thanksgiving Comes from the heart.
~J.A. Shedd

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Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.
- William Arthur Ward

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"We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning."
- Albert Barnes

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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
- Franz Grillparzer

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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

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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.
~Theodore Roosevelt

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If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
Ina Garten

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Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.
-John Clayton

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Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.
~Joseph Auslander

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But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!
~Margaret Junkin Preston

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I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.
- Marcus Samuelsson

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Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.
~Johnny Carson

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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

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But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!
- Margaret Junkin Preston

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Some hae meat and canna eat, - And some wad eat that want it; But we hae meat, and we can eat, Sae let the Lord be thankit.
- Robert Burns

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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!
- Henry Ward Beecher

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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
- Erma Bombeck

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As we pause to thank Him for the blessings of the past year, we must not forget to thank Him for the lessons we have learned through our difficult times. We are not to be thankful for just the pleasant, easy things, but ALL things.
- Millie Stamm

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Forever on Thanksgiving Day The heart will find the pathway home.
- Wilbur D. Nesbit

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Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives is not just a nice thing to do - it is the moral will of God. Failure to give Him the thanks due Him is sin.
- Jerry Bridges, Respectable Sins

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"Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.
- John Henry Jowett

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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
- William Jennings Bryan

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Thou hast given so much to me,
Give one thing more, - a grateful heart;
Not thankful when it pleaseth me,
As if Thy blessings had spare days,
But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
- George Herbert

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The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.
- H.U. Westermayer

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"Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude."
- E.P. Powell

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"So once in every year we throng
Upon a day apart,
To praise the Lord with feast and song
In thankfulness of heart."
- Arthur Guiterman, The First Thanksgiving

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"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

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"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice."
- Meister Eckhart

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"Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action."
- W.J. Cameron

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"He who thanks but with the lips
Thanks but in part;
The full, the true Thanksgiving
Comes from the heart."
- J.A. Shedd

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"Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow."
- Edward Sandford Martin

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"For flowers that bloom about our feet;
For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet;
For song of bird, and hum of bee;
For all things fair we hear or see,
Father in heaven, we thank Thee!"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"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

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“Praise God even when you don’t understand what He is doing.”
- Henry Jacobsen

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"Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise; be thankful unto him,
and bless his name. For the Lord is good..."
- Psalm 100:4, 5a

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"Without Thy sunshine and Thy rain
We could not have the golden grain;
Without Thy love we'd not be fed;
We thank Thee for our daily bread."
- Anonymous

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"If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily."
- Gerald Good

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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