Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Henry Van Dyke
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It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

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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.

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If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

Cesar Chavez

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

A. A. Milne

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Margaret Fuller

Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.

Maya Angelou

I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

Oprah Winfrey

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Jim Morrison

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Jonathan Swift

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

E. W. Howe

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

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A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

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Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.

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Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Arnold H. Glasow

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

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That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

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That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on!

Michael Strahan

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

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