Are you posting to social media over the Thanksgiving weekend? Are you trying to find the right words? If you are searching for inspiration, check out the following useful quotes to celebrate Thanksgiving.
- “We should just be thankful for being together. I think that’s what they mean by Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown.”- Marcie, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
- “What if, today, we were grateful for everything?” – Charlie Brown
- “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.” – Melody Beattie
- “Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.” – Amy Grant
- “Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer.”—Maya Angelou
- “Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” — William Arthur Ward
- “To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything.” – Thomas Merton
- “Have gratitude for all that you have, and you can be happy exactly as you are.” — Mandy Ingber
- “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “In November, people are good to each other. They carry pies to each other’s homes and talk by crackling woodstoves, sipping mellow cider. They travel very far on a special November day just to share a meal with one another and to give thanks for their many blessings.” — Cynthia Rylant
- “I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.” –Hansa Proverb
- “Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not the mind.” – Lionel Hampton
- “Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.” – Rumi
- “That’s one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football’s on!” – Michael Strahan
- “Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.” – Karl Barth
- “Good mashed potato is one of the great luxuries in life.” — Lindsey Bareham
- “The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about?” — Nora Ephron
- “Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.” –William Faulkner
- “If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.” –W. Clement Stone
- “I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.” – Will Arnett
- “If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the eons, it’s that you can’t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.” – Rick Riordan
- “Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.” – Mesiter Eckhart
- “What we’re 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?” –Erma Bombeck
- “Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter what befalls us in life, we can take the charred remnants, and we can reconstruct a life unimaginably richer than that from which the shards and pieces fell.” -Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are.” — Joyce Giraud
- “Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.” – Robert Caspar Lintner
- “If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.” – Gerald Good
Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy your day!