Reflect upon your present blessings
— Charles Dickens
Strong Thanksgiving And Love quotations
Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday.
People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.

My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes.
I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.


Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Appreciation can make a day, even change a life.
Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
Thankfulness is not something God gives us.
It is not a spiritual gift and it is not a spiritual fruit. We can receive God's peace, joy and love, but thankfulness is something that we give to Godand to others. It is a choice that we make. Let us thank Him today with songs of celebration, hearts of strong devotion and acts of admiration.
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.
My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving.
I love the food: The turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother's Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife's Midwestern roots; the Campbell's green bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie.
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving," and the words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy tell us that, "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
There are things you do because they feel right and they may make no sense and they may make no money and it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other and to eat each other's cooking and say it was good.

Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer.
And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.

Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.
Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.... Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long?

To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.
Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings.

Expressing gratitude for the miracles in your world is one of the best ways to make each moment of your life a special one. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your loved ones!
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
... because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you.

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.
God smiles when we praise and thank Him continually.
Few things feel better than receiving heartfelt praise and appreciation from someone else. God loves it, too. An amazing thing happens when we offer praise and thanksgiving to God. When we give God enjoyment, our own hearts are filled with joy.
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.