My Twenty-Five Favorite Quotes on Thankfulness and Gratitude

My Twenty Five Favorite Quotes on Gratitude and Thankfulness

Last week was my 61 years of experiencing the Thanksgiving Holiday here in the US. It reminded me of my favorite quotes on Thankfulness and Gratitude I am posting today.
 

Here are 25 quotes about gratitude and thankfulness that will not only remind you that what you have is pretty awesome, but will also, I hope, spur you to express that gratitude to the people who deserve it most.

1. "Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." William Arthur Ward
2. "I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." G.K. Chesterton
3. "'Enough' is a feast. Buddhist proverb
4. "If you count all your assets, you always show a profit." Robert Quillen
5. "Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." Robert Brault
6. "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
7. "Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." Charles Dickens
8. "Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance." Eckhart Tolle
9. "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
10. "If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily." Gerald Good
11. "Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity...it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." Melody Beattie
12. "The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it." Michael Josephson
13. "Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy." Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
14. "The way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement." Charles Schwab
15. "He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has." Epictetus
16. "At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us." Albert Schweitzer
17. "The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated." William James
18. "Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough." Oprah Winfrey
19. "Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful." Buddha
20. "Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone." Gertrude Stein
21. "Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts." Henri Frederic Amiel
22. "You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late." Ralph Waldo Emerson
23. "When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around." Willie Nelson
24. "It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment." Naomi Williams
25. "One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life." Anne Morrow Lindbergh

 https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/40-inspiring-motivational-quotes-about-gratitude.html

Meanwhile enjoy this photo:

 A Thanksgiving Bouquet. It is one week old today, but still look fresh!