We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

 —Thornton Wilder

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

 —Erma Bombeck

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.

 —E.P. Powell

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.

—H.U. Westermayer

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

When eating fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.

—Vietnamese proverb

So often we dwell on the things that seem impossible rather than on the things that are possible. So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.

—Marian Wright Edelman

Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.

—Gertrude B. Stein

None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.

—Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

One can never pay in gratitude; one can pay “in kind” somewhere else in life.

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

—Saint Ambrose

Of all the “attitudes” we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.

–Zig Ziglar

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

When we are grateful for the good we already have, we attract more good into our life. On the other hand, when we are ungrateful, we tend to shut ourselves off from the good we might otherwise experience.

–Margaret Stortz

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

—William Arthur Ward

Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don’t unravel.

—Anonymous