512 Quotes About Thankful

We ought to be thankful not only for what we have but also for what we do not have.

It is my hope that despite the gravity of the trials, we will never forget that the privilege to live life always offsets the difficulties involved in the living of it. This is the essence of thanksgiving.

Usually, that which could have been better could have been worse.

To be thankful for one thing is infinitely more powerful than to be bitter about a hundred others.

There is an invincible fortress that greed, gluttony and all of the other self-centered forces relentlessly assail with great force. Yet this unassailable fortress is such that the torrent may advance against it in a manner both vile and formidable, but the mad rage of this crazed maelstrom born of greed will helplessly fall to an exhausted calm before it ever touches its walls. And it is the simple attitude of thankfulness that builds a massive fortress such as this.

As subtle as it appears, being thankful is in fact an utterly invincible attitude that has enough muscle to handily uproot the most negative attitudes that we can conjure up. And I would think that we would be thankful that we can actually have that much power working against all our negativity.

Some people are happy that they have each lost one instead of both legs, whereas some are unhappy because they have each lost a toenail.

By far, the most precious gifts are those that I have, for without those I will never be able to obtain those that I don’t.

Achievement without the privilege to achieve means that we can be thankful for the former when it happens, but we need to be thankful that the latter allowed it to happen.