{"id":8590,"date":"2018-10-08T07:55:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T11:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=8590"},"modified":"2018-10-10T23:14:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T03:14:08","slug":"on-gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=8590","title":{"rendered":"On Gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. – H.U. Westermayer<\/em><\/p>\n

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. – WT Purkiser<\/em><\/p>\n

So while it’s true that Thanksgiving only comes but once a year, we should actually celebrate thanks each and every day. It’s just a matter of learning to live with a spirit of gratitude. – Unknown<\/em><\/p>\n

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity.\u00a0 It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.\u00a0 Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. – Melody Beattie<\/em><\/p>\n

On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence. – William Jennings Bryan<\/em><\/p>\n

Greed grabs, Gratitude receives. – Unknown<\/em><\/p>\n

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.\u00a0 Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. – D. Waitley<\/em><\/p>\n

Thankfulness is the ‘chief exercise of godliness’ in which we ought to engage during the whole of our life. ‘Gratitude is the heart … of the Christian life.’ – Unknown<\/em><\/p>\n

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings. – William Arthur Ward<\/em><\/p>\n

How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child’s personality. A child is resentful, negative, or thankful. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people. – Sir John Templeton<\/em><\/p>\n

Gratitude is a constant attitude of thankfulness and appreciation for life as it unfolds.\u00a0 Living in the moment, we are open to the abundance around us and within us.\u00a0 We express appreciation freely.\u00a0 We contemplate the richness of our life.\u00a0 In life’s trials, we seek to understand, to accept, to learn.\u00a0Gratitude is a continual celebration of life. – Unknown<\/em><\/p>\n

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.\u2019 This is a most searching and true diagnosis. Gratitude can be a vaccine that can prevent the invasion of a disgruntled attitude. As antitoxins prevent the disastrous effects of certain poisons and diseases, thanksgiving destroys the poison of fault-finding and grumbling. When trouble has smitten us, a spirit of thanksgiving is a soothing antiseptic.- John Henry Jowett<\/em><\/p>\n

Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude. – E.P. Powell<\/em><\/p>\n

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. – Henry David Thoreau<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. – H.U. Westermayer Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. – WT Purkiser So while it’s true that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[18,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8591,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8590\/revisions\/8591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}