Thanksgiving Quotes
Gratitude Quotes of Thanks and Praise

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
- James Allen

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

Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
- Anonymous

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

Today is Your Day to Dance Lightly with Life.  It Really Is.
      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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