Thankful For Family Quotes:

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

- Melody Beattie

source: Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, Hazelden Publishing

topic: Happiness, Thank You, Thanksgiving, Joy And Gratitude, I Am Thankful

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

topic: Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving, I Am Thankful, Inspirational Gratitude

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

topic: Inspirational, Relationship, Inspiring, Niceness, Kind Thoughts

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.

- Melody Beattie

source: Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

topic: Inspirational, Thankful, Gratitude, Make Things Right, I Am Thankful

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

- William Blake

topic: Happiness, Thanksgiving, Thankful, I Am Thankful, Inspirational Thank You

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

source: FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Oct 03, 2011

topic: Positive, Thank You, Thankful, Concentrating, Spiritual Blessings

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Thanksgiving, Thank You, Gratitude, I Am Thankful, Spiritual Gratitude

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

topic: Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Kindness, Inspirational Thanksgiving, Funny Thanksgiving Day

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

topic: Motivational, Thanksgiving, Thankful, Inspirational Thanksgiving, Daily Gratitude

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

- W. T. Purkiser

topic: Thanksgiving, Blessing, Use, Being Blessed, I Am Thankful

My advice: Take a second out of the day today and be thankful for your family.

- Jenna Morasca

topic: Being Thankful, Advice, Today, Thankful For Family

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Thankful, Gratitude, Jobs, Joy And Gratitude, I Am Thankful

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

- Cynthia Ozick

source: Jamake Highwater (1997). “The Mythology of Transgression: Homosexuality as Metaphor”, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Thank You, Thanksgiving, Thankful, Spiritual Gratitude, Inspirational Gratitude

The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Heart, Blessing, Thankfulness, Being Blessed, Spiritual Gratitude

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 C. Barnes

topic: Thanksgiving, Thankful, Dark, Inspirational Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day

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.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Appreciation, Inspirational Gratitude, Love Gratitude

Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Thanksgiving, Years, Thankfulness, Thanksgiving Day, Day After Thanksgiving

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

- Seneca the Younger

topic: Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Appreciation, Inspirational Gratitude, Thankful Heart

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

- William Faulkner

topic: Gratitude, Order, Quality, Inspirational Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day

Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.

- Melody Beattie

topic: Gratitude, Meals, Turns, I Am Thankful, Spiritual Gratitude

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

- Horace

topic: Gratitude, Common, Hungry, Inspirational Gratitude, Funny Thanksgiving Day

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

topic: Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Optimistic, I Am Thankful, Thankful Heart