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“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”

“For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.”

“We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”

“Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing.”

“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —”

“... because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.”

“We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”

“Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.”

“I find that the more willing I am to be grateful for the small things in life, the bigger stuff just seems to show up from unexpected sources, and I am constantly looking forward to each day with all the surprises that keep coming my way!”

“Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”

“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.”

“We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”

“When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?”

“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.”

“No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.”

“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”

“(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.”

“Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.”

“Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.”

“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”

“Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!”

“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.”

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”

“If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.”

“O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!”

“He who thanks but with the lips. Thanks but in part; the full, the true Thanksgiving. Comes from the heart.”

“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.”

“Gratitude is not a spiritual or moral dessert which we may take or push away according to the whims of the moment, and in either case without material consequences. Gratitude is the very bread and meat of spiritual and moral health, individually and collectively. What was the seed of disintegration that corrupted the heart of the ancient world beyond the point of divine remedy...? What was it but ingratitude?”

“There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.”