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\"Thanksgiving<\/a>
Thanksgiving and gratitude quotes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thanksgiving and gratitude quotes, a collection of aphorisms for Thanksgiving Day to remind us the true and powerful effect of a genuine spirit of thankfulness.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse. <\/span>
\nHenry Van Dyke<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine\u2019s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful. <\/span>
\nJonathan Safran Foer<\/span><\/p>\n

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. <\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter what befalls us in life, we can take the charred remnants, and we can reconstruct a life unimaginably richer than that from which the shards and pieces fell. <\/span>
\nCraig D. Lounsbrough<\/span><\/p>\n

Give thanks not just on Thanksgiving Day, but every day of your life. Appreciate and never take for granted all that you have. <\/span>
\nCatherine Pulsifer<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.<\/span>
\nAesop<\/span><\/p>\n

There is nothing that can have a more powerful effect on your mental health than the spirit of thankfulness.<\/span>
\nGeorge E. Vandeman<\/span><\/p>\n

Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us.<\/span>
\nThomas Traherne<\/span><\/p>\n

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.<\/span>
\nFrancois De La Rochefoucauld<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.<\/span>
\nDecimus Magnus Ausonius<\/span><\/p>\n

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.<\/span>
\nG.K. Chesterton<\/span><\/p>\n

We can no other answer make but thinks, and thanks and ever thanks.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are. <\/span>
\nJoyce Giraud<\/span><\/p>\n

Forever on Thanksgiving Day the heart will find the pathway home. <\/span>
\nWilbur D. Nesbit<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no better excess in the world than the excess of gratitude.<\/span>
\nJean de La Bruy\u00e8re<\/span><\/p>\n

Hope my relatives are getting along with the professional line sitter I hired to hold my place at the front of the Thanksgiving food line. <\/span>
\nJohn Lyon<\/span><\/p>\n

The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.<\/span>
\nNorman Vincent Peale<\/span><\/p>\n

If you can’t be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanksgiving … that is all about overeating. One of the main dishes is actually called \u2018stuffing.\u2019 Stuffing? What names did they turn down? \u2018Cram-it-in?\u2019 \u2018Eat-till-you-can\u2019t-breathe?\u2019 <\/span>
\nJim Gaffigan<\/span><\/p>\n

What we\u2019re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it \u2018Thanksgiving?\u2019 <\/span>
\nErma Bombeck<\/span><\/p>\n

I love spending Thanksgiving surrounded by all these great friends I met in the Best Buy parking lot. <\/span>
\nJohn Lyon<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nMelody Beattie<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is a humble emotion. It expresses itself… not for the gifts of this day only, but for the day itself; not for what we believe will be ours in the future, but for the bounty of the past<\/span>
\nFaith Baldwin<\/span><\/p>\n

Our Father, let the spirit of gratitude so prevail in our hearts that we may manifest thy Spirit in our lives.<\/span>
\nW.B. Slack<\/span><\/p>\n

You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out. <\/span>
\nJay Leno<\/span><\/p>\n

On Thanksgiving Day, we acknowledge our dependence. <\/span>
\nWilliam Jennings Bryan<\/span><\/p>\n

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. <\/span>
\nCharles Dickens<\/span><\/p>\n

Simple blessings are all around us. Once we receive them with thanksgiving and appreciation, we experience true joy. <\/span>
\nKrystal Kuehn<\/span><\/p>\n

Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him; it will take our attention from ourselves and give the Spirit room in our hearts.<\/span>
\nAndrew Murray<\/span><\/p>\n

Ingratitude is treason to mankind.<\/span>
\nJames Thomson<\/span><\/p>\n

Fear of trouble, present and future, often blinds us to the numerous small blessings we enjoy, silencing our prayers of praise and thanksgiving.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving? <\/span>
\nErma Bombeck<\/span><\/p>\n

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving.<\/span>
\nThe Holy Bible<\/span><\/p>\n

Even though we\u2019re a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it\u2019s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. <\/span>
\nRichard Roeper<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgiving, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.<\/span>
\nWilliam A. Ward<\/span><\/p>\n

Every Thanksgiving I bring the champagne, because in my family we all know what our strengths are. <\/span>
\nGloria Fallon<\/span><\/p>\n

A person doesn’t know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

Swift gratitude is the sweetest.<\/span>
\nGreek Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I\u2019m thankful for that. <\/span>
\nHowie Mandel<\/span><\/p>\n

It is when we stop thinking about what we don\u2019t have or what we lack, and become grateful for who we are, that we can gain access to true unlimited inspiration.<\/span>
\nFrank Arrigazzi<\/span><\/p>\n

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.<\/span>
\nKin Hubbard<\/span><\/p>\n

One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid.<\/span>
\nPublilius Syrus<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanksgiving dinners take 18 hours to prepare. They are consumed in 12 minutes. Halftimes take 12 minutes. This is not a coincidence. <\/span>
\nErma Bombeck<\/span><\/p>\n

We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction. <\/span>
\nH.A. Ironside<\/span><\/p>\n

On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment \u2013 half-time.<\/span>
\nAnonymous<\/span><\/p>\n

Be thankful for what you have; you\u2019ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don\u2019t have, you will never, ever have enough.<\/span>
\nOprah Winfrey<\/span><\/p>\n

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.<\/span>
\nErnest Hemingway<\/span><\/p>\n

If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it’s really like making a large chicken.<\/span>
\nIna Garten<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the holiday season, and represents food, family and moments of sharing and professing gratitude. Best restaurants near me<\/span>
\nSarah Moore<\/span><\/p>\n

The gratitude of most men is nothing more than a secret desire of receiving even greater benefits.<\/span>
\nFrancois De La Rochefoucauld<\/span><\/p>\n

He who thanks but with the lips thanks but in part; the full, the true Thanksgiving comes from the heart. <\/span>
\nJ.A. Shedd<\/span><\/p>\n

Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off\u2019rings, and a thankful strain.<\/span>
\nAlexander Pope<\/span><\/p>\n

I can’t cook a Thanksgiving dinner. All I can make is cold cereal and maybe toast. <\/span>
\nCharlie Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our Thanksgiving. <\/span>
\nW.T. Purkiser<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.<\/span>
\nHenry Ward Beecher<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanksgiving is a time to give, a time to love, and a time to reflect on the things that matter most in life.<\/span>
\nDanielle Duckery<\/span><\/p>\n

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.<\/span>
\nHenry David Thoreau<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.<\/span>
\nMarcus Tullius Cicero<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanksgiving day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude. <\/span>
\nE.P. Powell<\/span><\/p>\n

What we\u2019re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?<\/span>
\nErma Bombeck<\/span><\/p>\n

My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jello with whipped cream on it. And it’s delicious.<\/span>
\nBobby Moynihan<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving. <\/span>
\nAmy Grant<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside. <\/span>
\nWillard Scott<\/span><\/p>\n

Coexistence: What the farmer does with the turkeyuntil Thanksgiving. <\/span>
\nMike Connolly<\/span><\/p>\n

He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much.<\/span>
\nFrancis Beaumont<\/span><\/p>\n

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.<\/span>
\nHenry Ward Beecher<\/span><\/p>\n

Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years — a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds.<\/span>
\nStephen Vincent Benet<\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.<\/span>
\nWilliam John Bennett<\/span><\/p>\n

Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart — a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water — I accept with joy.<\/span>
\nBhagavad Gita<\/span><\/p>\n

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.<\/span>
\nWilliam Blake<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.<\/span>
\nRalph H. Blum<\/span><\/p>\n

Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass. And golden rays will usher in the dawn.<\/span>
\nSarah Knowles Bolton<\/span><\/p>\n

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.<\/span>
\nHenry Ward Beecher<\/span><\/p>\n

It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.<\/span>
\nE.M. Bounds<\/span><\/p>\n

Grace is available for each of us every day – our spiritual daily bread – but we’ve got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.<\/span>
\nSarah Ban Breathnach<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Thanksgiving<\/a>
Thanksgiving Day Quotes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Whatever we are waiting for – peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance – it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.<\/span>
\nSarah Ban Breathnach<\/span><\/p>\n

Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.<\/span>
\nThomas B. Brooks<\/span><\/p>\n

Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.<\/span>
\nThomas B. Brooks<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want an accounting of your worth, count your friends.<\/span>
\nMerry Browne<\/span><\/p>\n

This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.<\/span>
\nElizabeth Barrett Browning<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude to benefactors is a well-recognized virtue, and to express it in some form or other, however imperfectly, is a duty to ourselves as well as to those who have helped us.<\/span>
\nFrederick Douglass<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings you and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.<\/span>
\nEileen Caddy<\/span><\/p>\n

Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.<\/span>
\nElizabeth Carter<\/span><\/p>\n

Leave off wishing to deserve any thanks from anyone, thinking that anyone can ever become grateful.<\/span>
\nGalius Valerius Catullus<\/span><\/p>\n

He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it. He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows it should never remember it.<\/span>
\nPierre Cbarron<\/span><\/p>\n

Non-cooks think it’s silly to invest two hours’ work in two minutes’ enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.<\/span>
\nJulia Child<\/span><\/p>\n

Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.<\/span>
\nNorthrup Christiane<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.<\/span>
\nMarcus T. Cicero<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nFrank A. Clark<\/span><\/p>\n

Let’s choose today to quench our thirst for the “good life” we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.<\/span>
\nSarah Ban Breathnach<\/span><\/p>\n

All good things of this world are no further good than as they are of use; and whatever we may heap up to give others, we enjoy only as much as we can make useful to ourselves and others, and no more.<\/span>
\nDaniel Defoe<\/span><\/p>\n

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.<\/span>
\nDemosthenes<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanksgiving: when the people who are the most thankful are the ones who didn\u2019t have to cook. <\/span>
\nMelanie White<\/span><\/p>\n

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.<\/span>
\nCharles Dickens<\/span><\/p>\n

Glee! The great storm is over!<\/span>
\nEmily Dickinson<\/span><\/p>\n

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a lifelong pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.<\/span>
\nWayne Dyer<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is a twofold love – love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.<\/span>
\nHenry Van Dyke<\/span><\/p>\n

Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.<\/span>
\nBob Dylan<\/span><\/p>\n

If the only prayer you say in your whole life is “Thank you,” that would suffice.<\/span>
\nMeister Eckhart<\/span><\/p>\n

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

Sufficiency’s enough for men of sense.<\/span>
\nEuripides<\/span><\/p>\n

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.<\/span>
\nEpicurus<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.<\/span>
\nWilliam Faulkner<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.<\/span>
\nFelix Frankfurter<\/span><\/p>\n

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones — with ingratitude.<\/span>
\nBenjamin Franklin<\/span><\/p>\n

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.<\/span>
\nBenjamin Franklin<\/span><\/p>\n

Eaten bread is soon forgotten.<\/span>
\nThomas Fuller<\/span><\/p>\n

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.<\/span>
\nJohannes A. Gaertner<\/span><\/p>\n

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.<\/span>
\nEdward Gibbon<\/span><\/p>\n

That’s the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.<\/span>
\nSamuel Goldwyn<\/span><\/p>\n

That’s the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.<\/span>
\nSamuel Goldwyn<\/span><\/p>\n

Every dog has its day, but it’s not every dog that knows when he’s having it.<\/span>
\nWinifred Gordon<\/span><\/p>\n

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.<\/span>
\nBaltasar Gracian<\/span><\/p>\n

For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.<\/span>
\nClarence E. Hodges<\/span><\/p>\n

Of all the people in the world, those who want the most are those who have the most.<\/span>
\nDavid Grayson<\/span><\/p>\n

After my mother’s death, I began to see her as she had really been…. It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.<\/span>
\nNancy Hale<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.<\/span>
\nEdward F. Halifax<\/span><\/p>\n

How few are our real wants, and how easy is it to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.<\/span>
\nJulius Charles Hare<\/span><\/p>\n

The public have neither shame or gratitude.<\/span>
\nWilliam Hazlitt<\/span><\/p>\n

The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.<\/span>
\nLillian Hellman<\/span><\/p>\n

True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell Him what we have done for Him.<\/span>
\nGeorge R. Hendrick<\/span><\/p>\n

Thou who has given so much to me, give one thing more: a grateful heart.<\/span>
\nGeorge Herbert<\/span><\/p>\n

Who covets more is evermore a slave.<\/span>
\nRobert Herrick<\/span><\/p>\n

Enough is as good as a feast.<\/span>
\nJohn Heywood<\/span><\/p>\n

There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.<\/span>
\nHomer<\/span><\/p>\n

Let him who has enough wish for nothing more.<\/span>
\nHorace<\/span><\/p>\n

To stand on one leg and prove God’s existence is a very different thing from going down on one’s knees and thanking him.<\/span>
\nSoren Kierkegaard<\/span><\/p>\n

Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.<\/span>
\nBobby Hull<\/span><\/p>\n

The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.<\/span>
\nDean William R. Inge<\/span><\/p>\n

There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up.<\/span>
\nWilliam Jenkyn<\/span><\/p>\n

A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing…. It takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.<\/span>
\nSarah Orne Jewett<\/span><\/p>\n

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.<\/span>
\nSamuel Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.<\/span>
\nSamuel Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n

So much has been given to me; I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.<\/span>
\nHelen Keller<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve had an exciting life; I married for love and got a little money along with it.<\/span>
\nRose F. Kennedy<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.<\/span>
\nFrancois De La Rochefoucauld<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you realize what this means? The fact of being alive… I still find it staggering that I am here at all.<\/span>
\nChristopher Leach<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a certain kind of lively gratitude that not only releases us fro benefits we received, but also becomes a return payment to our friend that makes them become indebted to us.<\/span>
\nFrancois De La Rochefoucauld<\/span><\/p>\n

Too great a hurry to discharge an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.<\/span>
\nFrancois De La Rochefoucauld<\/span><\/p>\n

We find very few ungrateful people when we are able to confer favors.<\/span>
\nFrancois De La Rochefoucauld<\/span><\/p>\n

My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.<\/span>
\nAnne Lamott<\/span><\/p>\n

Man needs so little… yet he begins wanting so much.<\/span>
\nLouis L’Amour<\/span><\/p>\n

We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.<\/span>
\nWalter Savage Landor<\/span><\/p>\n

Too much is unwholesome.<\/span>
\nGeorg C. Lichtenberg<\/span><\/p>\n

One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy.<\/span>
\nAnne Morrow Lindbergh<\/span><\/p>\n

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay “in kind” somewhere else in life.<\/span>
\nAnne Morrow Lindbergh<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.<\/span>
\nJames Russell Lowell<\/span><\/p>\n

Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches.<\/span>
\nLucretius<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.<\/span>
\nJacques Maritain<\/span><\/p>\n

Let me burn out for God… prayer is the great thing. Oh, that I may be a man of prayer!<\/span>
\nHenry Martyn<\/span><\/p>\n

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.<\/span>
\nMignon McLaughlin<\/span><\/p>\n

Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep.<\/span>
\nAgnes Meyer<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends.<\/span>
\nCourtland Milloy<\/span><\/p>\n

There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful.<\/span>
\nLucy Maud Montgomery<\/span><\/p>\n

I look back on my life like a good day’s work; it was done and I am satisfied with it.<\/span>
\nGrandma Moses<\/span><\/p>\n

When you consider everything we have is a gift from God, it’s amazing how little gratitude we show. Giving to others is such a small way to say thank you.<\/span>
\nCharles L. Overby<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude – the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.<\/span>
\nDorothy Parker<\/span><\/p>\n

The good Lord has been good to me, and I am trying to return the favor. I just want to do as much good in the world as I can.<\/span>
\nMilton Petrie<\/span><\/p>\n

We may as well not pray at all as offer our prayers in a lifeless manner.<\/span>
\nWilliam S. Plumer<\/span><\/p>\n

When I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were rich.<\/span>
\nAlexander Pope<\/span><\/p>\n

Half a loaf is better than none.<\/span>
\nAustralian Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

We never know the worth of water until the well is dry.<\/span>
\nEnglish Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Ingratitude is a kind of weakness; the clever are never ungrateful.<\/span>
\nFrench Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

A hungry ass keeps her kicking end down.<\/span>
\nIrish Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Get down on your knees and thank God you’re still on your feet.<\/span>
\nIrish Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Better a mouse in the pot than no stew at all.<\/span>
\nItalian Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

I might have lost my ring, but I still have my fingers!<\/span>
\nItalian Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything.<\/span>
\nC.F. Ramuz<\/span><\/p>\n

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.<\/span>
\nMarjorie Kinnan Rawlings<\/span><\/p>\n

Two kinds of gratitude: the sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.<\/span>
\nEdwin Arlington Robinson<\/span><\/p>\n

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