Thanksgiving Quotes - Gratitude Quotes

I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving.
I have gratitude for EVERYTHING that has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.
I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings, the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,
the compassion and the indifference, the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.
I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Thanksgiving Quotes and Sayings - Quotes about Thanksgiving

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received.
Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling.
Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
- Henry Van Dyke

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

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought,
and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde

When you arise in the morning,
give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength.
Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living.
If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies with yourself.
- Tecumseh

Develop an attitude of gratitude,
and give thanks for everything that happens to you,
knowing that every step forward
is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
- Brian Tracy

Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life - the little things that are so easy to overlook, yet so awe inspiring when we take a moment to notice and to pay attention. Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies, for all God's creatures - large and small, for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain, for the tree veiled in the season's first frost, for the baby's laugh, for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Thankful Quotes

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero

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

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer

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.
- The Buddha

Gratitude Quotes and Sayings - Quotes about Gratitude

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

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies,
those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
- John Milton

As we express our gratitude,
we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words,
but to live by them.
- John F. Kennedy

Gratitude helps you to grow and expand;
gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life
and into the lives of all those around you.
- Eileen Caddy

None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude.
Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves,
and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
- Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
- William Arthur Ward

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.
- Elie Wiesel

When it comes to life,
the critical thing is whether you take things for granted
or take them with gratitude.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair." Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be. Demanding that life meet our expectations is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence. Life is a game with no rules. Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions. Our only path to happiness lies in being open to receiving whatever life throws at us - with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Grateful Quotes and Sayings - Quotes about Being Grateful

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain

We can only be said to be alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike

One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb

Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire

Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation;
but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
- Albert Pike

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
- Epictetus

Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply and gratefully -
never from making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Welcome change.
Be grateful for the blessings
and accept the rest as important lessons.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When was the last time you told those closest to you how grateful you are for their friendship?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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