Are you feeling gratitude this Thanksgiving?
I know I am.
This is the week to be grateful. Hopefully we are grateful every week. I’ve thought about what I am grateful for. After talking to some parents of children with substance use issues, I am reminded of how important gratitude is.
My family has survived the disease of addiction. This holiday season I will be able to enjoy my children’s company. I will be forever grateful.
Our hearts go out to those families who are missing their children on this Thanksgiving Day. Our thoughts are with you.
Know that you are not alone.
My hope is that in years to come awareness and education will spread, and our teens will choose to live a healthy lifestyle, and avoid this devastating disease.
Reach out to families struggling with the disease of addiction. The holidays can be a wonderful time, filled with love and joy, but they can also bring up painful memories.
This Thanksgiving, if you know of a family who is struggling with the disease of addiction, reach out to them and let them know you care.
No matter what our situation is, we can all find something to be grateful for.
Here are 16 inspiring gratitude quotes to inspire you this Thanksgiving.
1. “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
2. “Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.” ~Seneca
3. “Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.” ~Christine Northrup
4. “There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.” ~Ralph H. Blum
5. “God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you?” ~William A. Ward
6. “Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone.” ~G.B. Stern
7. “Gratitude is the memory of the heart.” ~Jean Baptiste Massieu, translated from French
8. “You have a choice each and every single day. I choose to feel blessed. I choose to feel grateful. I choose to be excited. I choose to be thankful. I choose to be happy.” ~Amber Housley
9. “Gratitude is the best attitude.” ~Author Unknown
10. “Happiness is in itself a kind of gratitude.” ~Joseph Wood Krutch
11. “When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive–to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” ~Marcus Aurelius
12. “Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.” ~Henry Ward Beecher
13. “At the end of the day I am thankful that my blessings are bigger than my problems.” ~Unknown
14. “When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” ~Lao Tzu
15. “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” ~Denis Waitley
16. “Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” ~William Arthur Ward
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving! Hug your loved ones. Thank YOU for being a reader!
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