Success

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. ~Albert Einstein


Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good. ~Joe Paterno


If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you. ~Author Unknown


Eighty percent of success is showing up. ~Woody Allen


As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. ~M.H. Alderson


Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill


What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins. ~Gene Fowler


We never know, believe me, when we have succeeded best. ~Miguel de Unamuno, Essays and Soliloquies, 1925


Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. ~Lily Tomlin


I couldn't wait for success... so I went ahead without it. ~Jonathan Winters


There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap." ~Carrie Fisher


Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. ~David Frost


Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it. ~Author Unknown


Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded! ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Try to discover
The road to success
And you'll seek but never find,
But blaze your own path
And the road to success
Will trail right behind.
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book


I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. ~George Bernard Shaw, 28 August 1896


Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves. ~Larry King


Success has made failures of many men. ~Cindy Adams


Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches. ~Donald A. Miller


Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. ~Author Unknown


That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had. ~Robert Louis Stevenson


Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles. ~Walter Cronkite


The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success. ~Author Unknown


Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. ~Elbert Hubbard

The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid interpretation put on the word success - is our national disease. ~William James, 11 September 1906


The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top." ~Nancy Barcus


Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment. ~Ross Perot


Smarts and action are on the same side of the equation where the sum is success. ~Garrett Hazel


Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching. ~Tennessee Williams


Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ~William Feather


There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. ~Christopher Morley


How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don't define it before you achieve it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. ~Irving Berlin


Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. ~Earl Wilson


Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now. ~Jonatan Mårtensson


Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. ~Dale Carnegie


There is no success but your own success. ~Terri Guillemets


Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. ~Abraham Lincoln


Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. ~Author Unknown


Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. ~Booker T. Washington


Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. ~George Smith Patton


It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final. ~Author Unknown


How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? ~Logan Smith


Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick. ~Laurence Shames


The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure. ~B.C. Forbes


The road to success is wherever people need another road. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you. ~Arthur McAuliff (Thanks, Fernanda)


If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. ~Quentin Crisp


If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. ~Author Unknown


If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then give up. There's no use in being a damn fool about it. ~W.C. Fields


If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment. ~Author Unknown
Source: www.quotegarden.com/success.html

Jewelry

The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens. ~Author Unknown


Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles. ~Sonja Henie


These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of. ~George Eliot


I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself. ~Mae West


There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald - all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulphur or of fire quickened by oil. ~Pliny, about the opal


I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond. ~Mae West


There are worlds in an opal. ~Astrid Alauda


Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond. ~Kahlil Gibran


As though pure white snow flashed and sparkled with the color of bright ruddy wine, and was overcome by this radiance. ~Author unknown, about the opal


Don't ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman's reputation. ~Colette, Gigi, 1944, translated


No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday. ~Mae West


This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip. ~Richard Burton


I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever. ~Anita Loos


Gold! gold! gold! gold!
Bright and yellow, hard and cold!
~Thomas Hood


The jeweler allows me to wear the sapphire blue lake on my finger, the emerald green leaves around my neck, and take the citrine sunset with me wherever I go. Jewelry has become my daytime link to nature in an office with no windows. And if I have to work late, there's nothing like diamond stars and a pearl full moon against an onyx night sky. ~Astrid Alauda, "Office With No Windows"


My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head. ~Rita Rudner


Opal is the multi-gem. ~Astrid Alauda


Diamonds are only chunks of coal,
That stuck to their jobs, you see.
~Minnie Richard Smith, "Stick to Your Job"


The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Rich and rare were the gems she wore,
And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore.
~Thomas Moore


Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all. ~Mark Twain


October's child is born for woe,
And life's vicissitudes must know;
But lay an Opal on her breast,
And hope will lull those woes to rest.
~Author Unknown


Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal. ~William Shakespeare, The Twelfth Night


With melted opals for my milk,
Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
~Gwendolyn Brooks


Posy and pearls
Amethyst and gold
Forever you and I
Our precious love to hold.
~Astrid Alauda


The three rings of marriage are the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering. ~Author Unknown


But not gold in commercial quantities,
Just enough gold to make the engagement rings
And marriage rings of those who owned the farm.
What gold more innocent could one have asked for?
~Robert Frost


I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. ~Rita Rudner

For years it has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward. ~Erma Bombeck, about her wedding ring


A woman wears her tears like jewelry. ~Author Unknown


Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God.... ~Thomas De Quincey


emerald as heavy
as a golf course, ruby as dark
as an afterbirth,
diamond as white as sun
on the sea...
~Anne Sexton


The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. ~Salvador Dal�


Among Life's precious jewels,
Genuine and rare,
The one that we call friendship
Has worth beyond compare.
~Author Unknown


For me the diamond dawns are set
In rings of beauty...
~John Townsend Trowbridge


If my love to you can't be said in a posy, it can't be said in a library. ~Grey Livingston


The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them. ~Richard Bach, Running From Safety


Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. ~Thomas Carlyle


Our love is a posy
Encircling our lives.
~Grey Livingston


The story of Harold Ross, the New Yorker and me is a mere footnote to the story of our time, and we might as well face the truth that to researchers of the future, poking about among the ruins of time, we shall all be tiny glitters. But then, so are diamonds. ~James Thurber


Some asked me where the rubies grew,
And nothing I did say;
But with my finger pointed to
The lips of Julia.
~Robert Herrick


The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. ~Jean de la Bruyere, translated from French


The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness. ~Kahlil Gibran


Poesy engraved on the ring
Love engraved on my heart.
~Astrid Alauda


Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes. ~George Savile


Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring?
Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord.
Hamlet: As woman's love.
~William Shakespeare, Hamlet


Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect. ~Chinese Proverb


I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within. ~Titus Maccius Plautus


Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung. ~William Morris


If wisdom and diamonds grew on the same tree we could soon tell how much men loved wisdom. ~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911


Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ~Chinese Proverb


Brief as the posy
Briefer yet my time
on earth with you.
Marry me.
~Grey Livingston


When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure. ~Peter Marshall


These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new. ~Harriet Beecher Stowe, Old Town Folks, 1869


Diamonds are a girl's best friend and a man's worst enemy. ~Author Unknown


Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


I had very good dentures once. Some magnificent gold work. It's the only form of jewelry a man can wear that women fully appreciate. ~Graham Greene


I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. ~Emma Goldman


Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool. ~Edwin Hubbel Chapin


I've been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I've lost a total of 789 pounds. By all accounts, I should be hanging from a charm bracelet. ~Erma Bombeck


But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare,
When at the same moment she had on a dress
Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less,
And jewelry worth tem times more, I should guess,
That he had not a thing in the wide world to wear!
~William Allen Butler, "Nothing to Wear"


A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a witty person, but a pebble in the hands of a fool. ~Author Unknown


There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa. ~William Makepeace Thackeray


My crown is in my heart, not in my head,
Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones,
Nor to be seen; my crown is called contentment;
A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy.
~William Shakespeare


I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together. I'm not quite sure where that is just yet. But I know what it's like.... It's like Tiffany's.... Not that I give a hoot about jewelry. Diamonds, yes. But it's tacky to wear diamonds before you're forty... ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly


I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds. ~Mary Worley Montagu


Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. ~Juvenal


Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished. ~Lord Chesterfield


In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India. ~Henry Brooke


Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
Give pearls away and rubies,
But keep your fancy free.
~A.E. Housman


There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self. ~Benjamin Franklin


Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind. ~William R. Alger


The countless gold of a merry heart,
The rubies and pearls of a loving eye,
The indolent never can bring to the mart,
Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury.
~William Blake


It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. ~Mahatma Gandhi


Clasp my love around your neck,
Wear my heart on your finger.
My soul will be your pendant:
I live to adorn you -
You're the precious one.
~Grey Livingston, "Genuine Adoration"


Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile? ~Lynn Hecht Schafren


All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography. ~Federico Fellini


She is mine own,
And I as rich in having such a jewel
As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl,
The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.
~William Shakespeare


In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. ~Honore de Balzac


The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh. ~Robert Ludlum

Source: www.quotegarden.com/jewelry.html

Happy Thanksgiving

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


If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart


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


So once in every year we throng
Upon a day apart,
To praise the Lord with feast and song
In thankfulness of heart.
~Arthur Guiterman, The First Thanksgiving


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


Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude! ~Henry Ward Beecher


Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. ~Edward Sandford Martin


Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,
With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
~Alexander Pope


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, "No One Diets on Thanksgiving," 26 November 1981


Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. ~W.J. Cameron


He who thanks but with the lips
Thanks but in part;
The full, the true Thanksgiving
Comes from the heart.
~J.A. Shedd


Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day. ~Robert Caspar Lintner


For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. ~Erma Bombeck


For flowers that bloom about our feet;
For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet;
For song of bird, and hum of bee;
For all things fair we hear or see,
Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. ~Irv Kupcinet


Thou hast given so much to me,
Give one thing more, - a grateful heart;
Not thankful when it pleaseth me,
As if Thy blessings had spare days,
But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
~George Herbert


The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! ~Henry Ward Beecher


Some hae meat and canna eat, -
And some wad eat that want it;
But we hae meat, and we can eat,
Sae let the Lord be thankit.
~Robert Burns


It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. ~Alistair Cooke


Ah! on Thanksgiving day....
When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more,
And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before.
What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye?
What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?
~John Greenleaf Whittier


Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings. ~J. Robert Moskin


There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American. ~O. Henry


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

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~Thornton Wilder


Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life... a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the turn of the seasons, the beauty of seedtime and harvest, the ripe product of the year - and the deep, deep connection of all these things with God. ~Ray Stannard Baker (David Grayson)


Heap high the board with plenteous cheer and gather to the feast,
And toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage never ceased.
~Alice W. Brotherton


On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime. ~Author Unknown


Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more:
Peace in the hearts of all men living,
peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.
~Joseph Auslander


On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence. ~William Jennings Bryan


It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for. He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. But a thankful heart hath a continual feast. ~W.J. Cameron


Lord, 'tis Thy plenty-dropping hand
That soils my land,
And giv'st me for my bushel sowne
Twice ten for one.
All this, and better, Thou dost send
Me, to this end,
That I should render, for my part,
A thankful heart.
~Robert Herrick


Thanksgiving is America's national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty. ~Michael Dresser


Forever on Thanksgiving Day
The heart will find the pathway home.
~Wilbur D. Nesbit


Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. ~Attributed to Jacqueline Winspear


We give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. ~Author Unknown


To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. ~Johannes A. Gaertner


A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. ~Cicero


But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie;
Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!
~Margaret Junkin Preston


Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving. ~Mike Connolly


Thanksgiving is possible only for those who take time to remember; no one can give thanks who has a short memory. ~Author Unknown


God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. ~Izaak Walton


I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the "history" I was told in second grade. But considering that (when it comes to holidays) mainstream America's traditions tend to be over-eating, shopping, or getting drunk, I suppose it's a miracle that the concept of giving thanks even surfaces at all. ~Ellen Orleans


Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants. ~Kevin James


Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now. ~A.W. Tozer


Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in. ~Phillips Brooks


Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart. ~Seneca


Happy We-Stole-Your-Land-and-Killed-Your-People Day! ~Thanksgiving toast, from the movie Sweet November


For what I give, not what I take,
For battle, not for victory,
My prayer of thanks I make.
~Odell Shepard


If I have enjoyed the hospitality of the Host of this universe, Who daily spreads a table in my sight, surely I cannot do less than acknowledge my dependence. ~G.A. Johnston Ross


O Lord that lends me life,
Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.
~William Shakespeare


None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy. ~Fred De Witt Van Amburgh


Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel. ~Author Unknown


The funny thing about Thanksgiving, or any huge meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it and then chopping and cooking and braising and blanching. Then it takes 20 minutes to eat it and everybody sort of sits around in a food coma, and then it takes four hours to clean it up. ~Ted Allen


And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks. ~John Taylor


The thing I'm most thankful for right now is elastic waistbands. ~Author Unknown


For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.... Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long? ~Rebecca Harding Davis


Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. ~Aesop


Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~William Arthur Ward


May your stuffing be tasty
May your turkey plump,
May your potatoes and gravy
Have nary a lump.
May your yams be delicious
And your pies take the prize,
And may your Thanksgiving dinner
Stay off your thighs!
~Author Unknown


Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. ~Charles Lamb, 1821


But whether we have less or more,
Always thank we God therefor.
~Author Unknown


Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. ~William Shakespeare


God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" ~William A. Ward


Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary


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. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. ~Melody Beattie


Thanksgiving-day, I fear,
If one the solemn truth must touch,
Is celebrated, not so much
To thank the Lord for blessing o'er,
As for the sake of getting more!
~Will Carleton


I love Thanksgiving turkey. It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts. ~Arnold Schwarzenegger


For hearts that are kindly, with virtue and peace, and not seeking blindly a hoard to increase; for those who are grieving o'er life's sordid plan; for souls still believing in heaven and man; for homes that are lowly with love at the board; for things that are holy, I thank thee, O Lord! ~Walt Mason


It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others. ~James Smith


When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep? ~George Canning


Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often. ~Johnny Carson


Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. ~P. J. O'Rourke


Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for - annually, not oftener - if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous twelve months instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians. Thanksgiving Day became a habit, for the reason that in the course of time, as the years drifted on, it was perceived that the exterminating had ceased to be mutual and was all on the white man's side, consequently on the Lord's side; hence it was proper to thank the Lord for it and extend the usual annual compliments. ~Mark Twain


We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning. ~Albert Barnes


Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness. ~Robert Casper Lintner


Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night. ~Irving Berlin


If you count all your assets, you always show a profit. ~Robert Quillen


Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. ~W.T. Purkiser

Source: www.quotegarden.com/thanksgiving.html

Quotations about Angels

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. ~George Elliot


The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly. ~G.K. Chesterton, "Orthodoxy"


The Angels were all singing out of tune,
And hoarse with having little else to do,
Excepting to wind up the sun and moon
Or curb a runaway young star or two.
~Lord Byron


I wear a coat of angels' breath and warm myself with His love. ~Terri Guillemets


Be an angel to someone else whenever you can, as a way of thanking God for the help your angel has given you. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God alone. ~William Blake


Angels have no philosophy but love. ~Terri Guillemets


It is not known precisely where angels dwell - whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode. ~Voltaire


Pay attention to your dreams - God's angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God. ~Meister Eckhart


Angels descending, bring from above,
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
~Fanny J. Crosby


We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ~Luciano de Crescenzo


Life is a tapestry: We are the warp; angels, the weft; God, the weaver. Only the Weaver sees the whole design. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


We trust in plumed procession
For such the angels go -
Rank after Rank, with even feet -
And uniforms of Snow.
~Emily Dickinson


Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. ~John Keats


All God's angels come to us disguised. ~James Russell Lowell


God not only sends special angels into our lives, but sometimes He even sends them back again if we forget to take notes the first time! ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.
~John Milton, Paradise Lost


Insight is better than eyesight when it comes to seeing an angel. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


The guardian angels of life fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us. ~Jean Paul Richter


Thorns and stings
And those such things
Just make stronger
Our angel wings.
~Terri Guillemets


Angels fly at light speed, because they are servants of the Light. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


I feel that there is an angel inside me whom I am constantly shocking. ~Jean Cocteau


Sometimes even the flight of an angel hits turbulence. ~Astrid Alauda


We're all kissed by angels but some of us never think to pucker. ~Terri Guillemets


Man was created a little lower than the angels, and has been getting lower ever since. ~Josh Billings


Angels are all around us, all the time, in the very air we breathe. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


A pillow for thee will I bring,
Stuffed with down of angel's wing.
~Richard Crashaw


In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular. ~George Bernard Shaw


An angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision. ~St Thomas Aquinas


When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they're seeing angels. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


If we were all like angels, the world would be a heavenly place. ~Author Unknown


The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


If trouble hearing Angels song with thine ears, try listening with thy heart. ~Terri Guillemets


Angels shine from without because their spirits are lit from within by the light of God. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Evangeline"


If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Music is well said to be the speech of angels. ~Thomas Carlyle


An angel lost his wing,
Crooked he did fly.
~Terri Guillemets


Angels can fly because they carry no burdens. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit. ~Mae West


Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning. ~Lydia M. Child


Angels are direct creations of God, each one a unique Master's piece. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


Angels deliver Fate to our doorstep - and anywhere else it is needed. ~Jessi Lane Adams


If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art. ~Terri Guillemets


Angels are quite ample cause to cry... ~Nicholas Gordon, poemsforfree.com


If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone that soar above,
Enjoy such liberty.
~Richard Lovelace


You'll meet more angels on a winding path than on a straight one. ~Daisey Verlaef


Children often have imaginary playmates. I suspect that half of them are really their guardian angels. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


Outside the open window
The morning air is all awash with angels.
~Richard Purdy Wilbur


I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. ~Michelangelo


Angels are messengers, but sometimes we misunderstand their language. ~Linda Solegato


Whether we are filled with joy or grief, our angels are close to us, speaking to our hearts of God's love. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


Angels can fly directly into the heart of the matter. ~Author Unknown


O welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope,
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!
~John Milton, Comus


If angels rarely appear, it's because we all too often mistake the medium for the Message. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


Sometimes what we believe as coincidence is really just getting ourselves caught in an angel booby trap. ~Grey Livingston


Ever felt an angel's breath in the gentle breeze? A teardrop in the falling rain? Hear a whisper amongst the rustle of leaves? Or been kissed by a lone snowflake? Nature is an angel's favorite hiding place. ~Carrie Latet


Angels are never too distant to hear you. ~Author Unknown


Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace. ~Saint Theresa of Lisieux


When our mortal eyes close on this world for the last time, our angels open our spiritual eyes and escort us personally before the face of God. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


Angels sail back to God on the sea of joy. ~Terri Guillemets


Have you ever seen a flower down
Sometimes angels skip around
And in their blissful state of glee
Bump into a daisy or sweet pea.
~Jessi Lane Adams


If you can't hear the angels, try quieting the static of worry. ~Terri Guillemets


A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase. ~Author Unknown


The magnitude of life is overwhelming. Angels are here to help us take it peace by peace. ~Levende Waters


While we are sleeping, angels have conversations with our souls. ~Author Unknown


How wonderful it must be to speak the language of the angels, with no words for hate and a million words for love! ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


Angels, pixies, faerie dust
Treading love and living lust.
~Jaesse Tyler


Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~Author Unknown


When we worship God, our angels add their prayers and turn our single voices into hundred-part harmony. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


Anyone can be an angel. ~Author Unknown


The angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994


How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves the porch light on? ~Tom Waits, "Mr Siegal," Heartattack and Vine (Thanks, Paula)
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