{"id":4641,"date":"2017-11-11T01:57:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T01:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/howgreatthoupart\/?p=4641"},"modified":"2017-11-11T01:57:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T01:57:59","slug":"20-must-read-quotes-thanksgiving-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/howgreatthoupart\/2017\/11\/20-must-read-quotes-thanksgiving-dinner.html","title":{"rendered":"20 Must Read Quotes for Your Thanksgiving Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Gratitude exclaims, very properly, &#8220;How good of God to give me this.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;C.S. Lewis<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Robert Louis Stevenson<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;&#8216;Thank you&#8217; is the best prayer that anyone could say.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Alice Walker<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/howgreatthoupart\/files\/2017\/11\/pexels-photo-265393.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4651 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/374\/2017\/11\/pexels-photo-265393-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"pexels-photo-265393\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite &#8211; only a sense of existence.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Henry David Thoreau<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Lewis Carroll<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;J.R.R. Tolkien<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Gratitude is a dialysis of sorts. It flushes the self-pity out of our systems.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Oscar Wilde<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Do not take anything for granted &#8211; not one smile or one person or one rainbow or one breath, or one night in your cozy bed.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Terri Guillemets<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Each day I am thankful for the nights that turned into mornings, friends that turned into family, dreams that turned into reality and likes that turned into love.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Author Unknown<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I want to thank you for the profound joy I&#8217;ve had in the thought of you.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Rosie Alison<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Henry Van Dyke<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I have a lot to be thankful for. I am healthy, happy and I am loved.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reba McEntire<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Henry Ward Beecher<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;William Arthur Ward<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Alphonse Karr<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It is not happy people who are thankful. 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