Happy Thanksgiving Quotes

“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson “Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” — Voltaire “When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.” — Tecumseh “For my part, I am almost contented just now, and very thankful. Gratitude is a divine emotion: it fills the heart, but not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever.” — Charlotte Bronte “He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” — Epictetus   “The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time.” — Douglas Wood “Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.” — Rumi “We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.” — Audre Lorde “‘Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.” — Alice Walker "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 "When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup." — Sam Lefkowitz "Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter what befalls us in life, we can take the charred remnants and we can reconstruct a life unimaginably richer than that from which the shards and pieces fell." — Craig D. Lounsbrough "Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses." — Alphonse Karr