{"id":6071,"date":"2014-11-20T11:46:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T16:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ourladyofweightloss\/?p=6071"},"modified":"2014-11-20T11:46:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T16:46:26","slug":"26-thanksgiving-quotes-after-a-good-dinner-one-can-forgive-anybody-even-ones-own-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ourladyofweightloss\/2014\/11\/26-thanksgiving-quotes-after-a-good-dinner-one-can-forgive-anybody-even-ones-own-relations.html","title":{"rendered":"26 Thanksgiving Quotes &#8212; After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one&#8217;s own relations."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3002\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3002\" style=\"width: 408px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3002\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/100\/2011\/11\/dog-thanksgiving20091-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"Thanksgiving Love from Janice Taylor, Weight Loss Coach, Hypnotherapist, Author, Artist, Positarian\" width=\"408\" height=\"242\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3002\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thanksgiving Love from Janice Taylor, Weight Loss Coach, Hypnotherapist, Author, Artist, Positarian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A few years ago, I started a fun Thanksgiving tradition! I asked those who would be celebrating with us to email me their favorite Thanksgiving quote a few days prior to the festivities, giving me to time to get my creative juices in gear!\u00a0 Once received, using a celebratory font, I printed them out and placed one quote with each place setting. When we sat down to dine, we read the quotes aloud and guessed who they belonged to!!! What fun! Lots of belly laughs, which not only counts as exercise, but it also added to our feelings of gratitude.\u00a0 Share your favorite Thanksgiving Quotes!\u00a0 <em><strong>#IAmThankfulFor<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are this year\u2019s 26 Thanksgiving Quotes to Chew On!<br \/>\n<em>#IAmThankfulFor<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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?\u201d ~ Erma Bombeck<\/p>\n<p>If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, \u201cthank you,\u201d that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart<\/p>\n<p>God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say \u201cthank you?\u201d ~William A. Ward<\/p>\n<p>Be aware of what you have in hand rather than to be for what you don\u2019t. Everyone will be grateful to what you have.\u201d ~Kurt Avish<\/p>\n<p>A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues. ~Cicero<\/p>\n<p>Got no checkbooks, got no banks.<br \/>\nStill I\u2019d like to express my thanks.<br \/>\nI got the sun in the morning and the moon at night. ~Irving Berlin<\/p>\n<p>Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. ~Melody Beattie<\/p>\n<p>As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy<\/p>\n<p>There is no sincerer love than the love of food. ~ George Bernard Shaw<\/p>\n<p>An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. ~ Irv Kupcinet<\/p>\n<p>Thanksgiving is America\u2019s national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty. ~ Michael Dresser<\/p>\n<p>If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. ~ W. Clement Stone<\/p>\n<p>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<\/p>\n<p>Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. ~ Aesop<\/p>\n<p>I love Thanksgiving turkey \u2026 it\u2019s the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/p>\n<p>Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. ~ W.T. Purkiser<\/p>\n<p>Thankfulness creates gratitude that generates contentment that causes peace. ~ Todd Stocker<\/p>\n<p>Be sure that your praise songs are numbered higher than your sorrowful dirges and your utmost hope, firmer than your woeful regrets. Be positive. ~ Israelmore Ayivor<\/p>\n<p>Gratitude is the memory of the heart. ~ Massieu<\/p>\n<p>No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. ~ Elie Wiesel<\/p>\n<p>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<\/p>\n<p>Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. ~ W.J. Cameron<\/p>\n<p>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<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t easy telling my family that I\u2019m gay. I made my carefully worded announcement at Thanksgiving. It was very Norman Rockwell. I said, \u201cMom, would you please pass the gravy to a homosexual?\u201d She passed it to my father. A terrible scene followed. ~ Bob Smith<\/p>\n<p>After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one&#8217;s own relations. ~ Oscar Wilde<\/p>\n<p>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. &#8211; Albert Schweitzer<\/p>\n<p>Share your favorite Thanksgiving Quotes!\u00a0 #IAmThankfulFor<\/p>\n<p>For more spot on, right on, tellin\u2019 it like it is join Our Lady of Weight Loss\u2019s <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/30757154492\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kick in the Tush Club\/FB<\/a>!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>And\u2013for the full skinny sign up for Janice Taylor\u2019s (monthly)<a href=\"http:\/\/maildogmanager.com\/surveys\/OurLadyofWeightLoss\/optin1.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Kick in the Tush Club newsletter<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><em>Spread the Word-\u2013NOT the icing!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Janice Taylor<\/p>\n<p><em>Weight Loss Coach, Hypnotherapist,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Happiness Expert,<\/em> <em>Author, Artist<\/em>, <em>Positarian<\/em><br \/>\n\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<br \/>\nFor the best life, wellness and weight loss wisdom,<br \/>\nvisit Janice: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.OurLadyofWeightLoss.com\" target=\"_blank\">Our Lady of Weight Loss<\/a><br \/>\nSign up for the <a href=\"http:\/\/maildogmanager.com\/surveys\/OurLadyofWeightLoss\/optin1.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Kick in the Tush Club newsletter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, I started a fun Thanksgiving tradition! I asked those who would be celebrating with us to email me their favorite Thanksgiving quote a few days prior to the festivities, giving me to time to get my creative juices in gear!\u00a0 Once received, using a celebratory font, I printed them out and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,82,3,60,1659,1207,656,1488,1,19,176],"tags":[671,3826,3827,76,3825,2255,603,3860,8,3837,3875,248],"class_list":["post-6071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-janice-taylor","category-kick-in-the-tush-club","category-motivation","category-our-lady-of-weight-loss","category-quotes","category-spiritual-weight-loss-2","category-thanksgiving","category-the-holiday-diet","category-weight-loss","category-weight-loss-art","category-weight-loss-coach-2","tag-how-to-lose-weight","tag-janice-taylor","tag-kick-in-the-tush-club","tag-lose-weight","tag-our-lady-of-weight-loss","tag-thanksgiving-quotes","tag-the-christmas-diet","tag-the-holiday-diet","tag-weight-loss-coach","tag-weight-loss-motivation","tag-weight-loss-success-coach","tag-weight-loss-tips"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>26 Thanksgiving Quotes - After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one&#039;s own relations. - Our Lady of Weight Loss<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ourladyofweightloss\/2014\/11\/26-thanksgiving-quotes-after-a-good-dinner-one-can-forgive-anybody-even-ones-own-relations.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"26 Thanksgiving Quotes - After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one&#039;s own relations. - Our Lady of Weight Loss\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A few years ago, I started a fun Thanksgiving tradition! 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