Happy Thanksgiving: Food For Thought
With the economy in the state it’s in, many Americans might feel as if they have little to be thankful for. Folks are foreclosing on their homes left and right, the automotive industry is itching to get its own serving of bailout funds, and sure, gas prices are down, but who has the money to do any serious holiday shopping?
However, being thankful goes deeper than just real estate, automobiles, and money.
Whether before or after your bellies are full, take time today to munch on these thought-provoking thanksgiving- and Thanksgiving Day-related quotes and poems.
“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
“Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow.” - Edward Sandford Martin
“We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.” - Albert Barnes
“Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings.” - J. Robert Moskin
“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
“Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.” - Theodore Roosevelt
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” - Thornton Wilder
“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.” - W.T. Purkiser
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for. He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. But a thankful heart hath a continual feast.” - W.J. Cameron
“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.” - Cicero
“When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?” - George Canning
“Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.” - A.W. Tozer
“Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in.” - Phillips Brooks
“It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others.” - James Smith
“Heap high the board with plenteous cheer and gather to the feast,
And toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage never ceased.”
- Alice W. Brotherton
“Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more:
Peace in the hearts of all men living,
peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.”
- Joseph Auslander
Happy Thanksgiving!
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