Happy Thanksgiving!

SOME QUOTES FOR THANKSGIVING DAY

"Gratitude is the sign of noble souls."
-Aesop's Fables

"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

"Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence."
-William Jennings Bryan

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."
-Cicero

"Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all."
-William Faulkner

"I do not think of all the misery, but of the glory that remains. Go outside into the fields, nature and the sun, go out and seek happiness in yourself and in God. Think of the beauty that again and again discharges itself within and without you and be happy."
-Anne Frank

"As we enjoy great Advantages from the Inventions of others we should be glad of an Opportunity to serve others by any Invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously."
-Ben Franklin

"Gratitude is the heart's memory."
-French Proverb

"Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving."
-Kahlil Gibran

"Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live."
-Jackie Windspear

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And a poem by Emily Dickinson 


One day is there of the series
Termed Thanksgiving day,
Celebrated part at table,
Part in memory.

Neither patriarch nor pussy,
I dissect the play;
Seems it, to my hooded thinking,
Reflex holiday.

Had there been no sharp subtraction
From the early sum,
Not an acre or a caption
Where was once a room,

Not a mention, whose small pebble
Wrinkled any bay,—
Unto such, were such assembly,
‘T were Thanksgiving day.

from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Little, Brown, 1924),
available online at Bartleby.com