“THANKSGIVING Gratefulness is feeling blessed, / But thankgiving is "thanks" expressed. / We validate the attitude / By speaking forth our gratitude. --- DLH (Thanksgiving Day, 2011)”
David L. Hatton
“Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.”
Henry Van Dyke
“Giving thanks are the concrete steps to happiness”
Matt Maldre
“Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice”
Meister Eckhart
“O Thou who has given us so much, mercifully grant us one thing more-a grateful heart.”
George Herbert
“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new. Shall i not call God The beautiful, who daily showth himself so to me in his gifts.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
