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Have a great Thanksgiving! We hope you enjoy some awesome quotes about gratitude and giving thanks!

1. “The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.” Eric Hoffer
2. “If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.” Gerald Good
3. “Gratitude consists of being more aware of what you have, than what you don’t.” Unknown
4. “We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” Cynthia Ozick
5. “What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” Albert Pine
6. “Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” Melody Beattie
7. “Thanksgiving, like contentment, is a learned attribute. The person who hasn’t learned to be content…lives with the delusion he deserves more or something better.” Robert Flatt
8. “When you drink the water, remember the well.” Chinese proverb
9. “When I started counting my blessings; my whole life turned around.” Willie Nelson
10. “Got no checkbooks, got no banks . Still I’d like to express my thanks.” Irving Berlin
11. “I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.” Elbert Hubbard
12. “Make yourself a blessing to someone. Your kind smile or pat on the back just might pull someone back from the edge.” Carmelia Elliott
13. “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” William Ward
14. “Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.” Betty Smith
15. “As we express our gratitude, may we never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” John F. Kennedy
16. “God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘Thank you?’” William Arthur Ward
17. “I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping green spirits of trees, for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.”  e. e. cummings
18. “When the eye wakes up to see again, it suddenly stops taking anything for granted.” Frederick Franck
19. “When you give and carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, ‘Yes, this is how I ought to feel.’” Rabbi Harold Kushner
20. “One of the very first things I figured out about life is that it’s better to be a grateful person than a grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re grateful, you have more fun.” Barbara Kingsolver
21. “Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.” Garrison Keillor
22. “What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.” Colette
23. “Unless people like you care a whole lot, things aren’t going to get better, they’re not!” Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
24. “What if you gave someone a gift and they didn’t thank you for it. Would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. If you want to attract more blessings, you must appreciate the ones you already have.” Ralph Marston
25. “I didn’t realize all that was going on and never noticed. Oh, earth, you’re too wonderful for anybody to realize you.” Emily in Thornton Wilder’s Our Town
26. “You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before I open a book, and before sketching, painting, swimming, walking, playing, dancing and before I dip the pen in the ink.” G. K Chesterton
27. "Blessings are oftentimes not valued till they are gone." Thomas Fuller
28. "Gratitude is the memory of the heart." Jean Massieu
29. "It is impossible to be negative while we are giving thanks." Donald Curtis
30. "No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night." Elie Wiesel
31. "Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving." W. T. Purkiser
32. "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
33. "The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!" Henry Ward Beecher
34. "Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone." G.B. Stern
35. "Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture." Kak Sri
36. "If you have lived, take thankfully the past." John Dryden
37. "Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action." W.J. Cameron
38. "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
39. "We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures." Thornton Wilder
40. "A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues." Cicero
41. "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
42. "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." Johnny Carson
43. "Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year." P. J. O'Rourke
44. "Gratitude is the sign of noble souls." Aesop
45. "Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart." Seneca
46. "If "thank you" is the only prayer you say, that will be enough." Meister Eckhart
47. "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
48. “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?” Erma Bombeck
49. “I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.” Jon Stewart
50. “You know that just before that first Thanksgiving dinner there was one wise, old Native American woman saying, “Don’t feed them. If you feed them, they’ll never leave.” Dylan Brody
51. "Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants." Kevin James