Thanksgiving Quotes

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."

Mother Teresa

"No one has ever become poor by giving."

Anne Frank

"Giving is not just about making a donation. It is about making a difference."

Kathy Calvin

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."

Mark Twain

"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."

Arthur Ashe

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

William Arthur Ward

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

Robert Brault

"Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love."

"Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it."

"Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me."

Thich Nhat Hanh

"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind."

Lionel Hampton

"When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity."

Elie Wiesel

"So much has been given to me; I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied."

"The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"Gratitude is heaven itself."

William Blake

"Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts."

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

"Joy is the simplest form of gratitude."

Karl Barth

"In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."

Michael Pollan

"The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility."

Wendell Berry

"No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past."

Laurie Colwin

"In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices."

Elizabeth Gilbert

"I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'"

Kurt Vonnegut

"A favour done in the hour of need, though small in itself, is much larger than the world."

Thiruvalluvar