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How You Can Feel Amazing Gratitude This Thanksgiving

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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18 thoughts on “How You Can Feel Amazing Gratitude This Thanksgiving”

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    Hi Lisa,

    Thanksgiving is one of those holidays that I love because it’s not about things, it’s about family, friends, and giving thanks. What could be better than that? Thanks for your comment and have a wonderful holiday.

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    Hi Missy,

    I love that quote as well. This is wonderful that you are reading the information BEFORE your child hits the teen years. If more moms like you, would do that I think we’d all have a much better handle on the problem. Parents cannot 100% prevent their child from substance abuse and addiction, but they can go a long way in helping their kids make healthy choices during their teen years. Thanks for your comment.

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      Hi Betsy,

      Yes, I did have a wonderful Thanksgiving. It was just the five of us, but I treasure the time with my kids, and of course my husband too, on these holidays.

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      Hi Tess,

      I agree. I love Melody Beattie and have read two of her books, but she wrote some more recent ones, and I want to read those as well. Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and I’m grateful for you and all the support you have given me.

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      Hi Mardile,

      Gratitude does come from the heart. Sometimes we need to experience a few things in life to really appreciate how much we have to be grateful for. I agree with your comment, well said.Thanks for sharing and stopping by Treatment Talk.

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    What a beautiful post Cathy, thank you for sharing this with us. I do hope you had a wonderful and enjoyable Thanksgiving. We are all so very blessed and grateful for what we have and for our family and friends. Gratitude my friend, I couldn’t have said it better myself.

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      Hi Adrienne,

      I did have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Enjoyed spending time with my family which is always nice. Hope you had a good one too. Gratitude is a wonderful thing, not only for this time of year, but for the rest of the year as well. Grateful for your comment!

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    Hi Cathy,

    We always have to be thankful for what we have every single day. When we are greatful and show gratitude, abundance flows to us and we achieve inner peace as well. What a great way to show our gratitude for what we have and for the world in general. Thanks for sharing

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    Hi Dia,

    Your words are so true. Each day should be Thanksgiving in our hearts. The gratitude list helps me, as well as just acknowledging how grateful I am for all that I have in my life. We all have things to be grateful for if we just notice.. Our daily gratitude can begin by being thankful for our first morning breath. Thanks for your comment.

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