Saturday, October 11, 2008

Thanksgiving is Here!

With the world enconomy in the state it is in there can seem that there is little to be thankful about BUT this wouldn't be true.

It becomes more important to have a thankful heart in hard times than even in good. So many people are hurting it is good to be their encouragement.

Here are so famous quotes of thankfulness:

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" ~William A. Ward


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


Gratitude is the memory of the heart. ~Jean Baptiste Massieu, translated from French


Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. ~G.B. Stern


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


You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink. ~G.K. Chesterton


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. ~Frank A. Clark


Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. ~Jackie Windspear


He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. ~Epictetus


There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance. ~Joseph Addison


Who does not thank for little will not thank for much. ~Estonian Proverb


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


Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things. ~Horace


When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them. ~Chinese Proverb

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