Another Thanksgiving month has begun. A dear friend provided me with 365 gratitude quotes. WOW! I want to share some of them and invite you to please join me.
Phrases Posted on Facebook November 2025
“Times that challenge us physically, emotionally, and spiritually my make it seem impossible to “feel” grateful. Yet, we can decide to “live” gratefully, courageously open to life in all its fullness.” Brother David Steindl-Rast
“How many times have you noticed that it’s the little moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?” Fred Rogers
“Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone, who tend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.” Audre Lorde
“As long as I’m alive, I will continue to try to understand more because the work of the heart is never done.” Muhammad Ali
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorns have roses.” – Alphonse Karr
“You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.” – Kahill Gibran
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” – Voltaire
“I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.” – Will Arnett
“The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.” – Henry Ward Beecher
I think all of us appreciate John O’Donohue. Here’s a quote from him to savor: “I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.”
Brother David Steindl-Rast has written vastly about gratitude and how it opens our hearts. Here’s one from him: “Nothing gives you more joy than when your heart grows wider and wider and your sense of belonging to the universe grows deeper and deeper.”
Here is beautiful advice from Maxine Hong Kingston. “In a time of destruction, create something. A poem. A friendship. A community. A place that is the commons. A school. A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment.”
A blessed Thanksgiving to all of you. Joanna Macy and Molly Brown tells us that “Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive (I love that thought!) It helps us realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us.” AAAH!
