Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Thanksgiving: A Cornucopia of Gratitude



by 
Allen Klein

In addition to my other books, I am the author of a number of uplifting and motivational quotation books. I like quotations because they often remind us, with succinct words, about important matters.

The quotations below are a small selection from one of my books, Change Your Life!: A Little Book of Big Ideas. I hope you enjoy them and perhaps use some at your Thanksgiving dinner to remind everyone around the table to be grateful for all they have in their life.

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. 
Have you used one to say "thank you”?
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD 

If the only prayer you say in your whole
life is “Thank you,” that would suffice.
MEISTER ECKHART 

Appreciation is like an insurance policy. 
It has to be renewed every now and then.
DAVE MCINTYRE  

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel
as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY 

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up,
snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as
bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
JOHN RUSKIN 

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. . . .
Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner
resources.  The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
GOLDA MEIR 

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
KEN KEYES, JR. 

Health is . . . a blessing that money cannot buy.
IZAAK WALTON

Count your blessings, not your crosses,
Count your gains, not your losses.
Count your joys instead of your woes,
Count your friends instead of your foes.
Count your health, not your wealth.
OLD PROVERB

He who limps still walks.
STANISLAW LEC 

Too many people miss the silver lining
because they're expecting gold.
MAURICE SETTER 

If you count all your assets,
you always show a profit.
ROBERT QUILLEN 

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

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Excepts from
Change Your Life!: A Little Book of Big Ideas

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I am grateful for having the opportunity to march in  
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2013.













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