True Thanksgiving

"He who thanks but with the lips
Thanks but in part;
The full, the true Thanksgiving
Comes from the heart."
--JA Shedd

Silence

"Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone."
--GB Stern

Difference in Men

"There is no greater difference between men than between grateful & ungrateful people."
--R.H. Blyth

True Measure of Thanksgiving

"Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them is the true measure of our Thanksgiving."
--WT Purkiser

Profit

"If you count all your assets, you always show a profit."
--Robert Quillen

Arithmetic

"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings."
--Eric Hoffer

Appreciation

"The deepest need of human nature is to be appreciated."
--William James

All You Want

"If you haven't all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you wouldn't want."
--Unknown

Touching Heaven

"To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven."
--Johannes A. Gaertner

Currency of Gratitude

"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 deWittVanAmburgh

Key to Happiness

"Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy--because we will always want to have something else, something more."
--David Steindlrast

Alive

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

Count Your Blessings

"If you're not happy with what you have, how could you be happier with more?"
--Unknown

Wisdom

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

It's Electric

"Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all."
--William Faulkner

Reap What You Sew

"Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel."
--Unknown

Counting Blessings

"When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around."
--Willie Nelson