Month: December 2023

“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” – Willie Nelson (B.1933

“Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.” – Maltbie D. Babcock (1858-1901)

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” – John F. Kennedy

“Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.” – Charles Dickens


“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” – Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)

“Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.” – Christian Science Hymnal

“If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill – take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edges, then you force it into the realm of magic.” – Tom Robbins (B.1936)


“A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances.” – Bahhaullah

“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.” – Gautama Buddha

“A thankful heart hath a continual feast.” – W.J. Cameron (1879-1953)