Archive for November, 2006

Elie Wiesel

When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.
-Elie Wiesel

Even more thanks…

“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.” -Buddha
“It is another’s fault if [...]

Constance Kamii

If we want children to become able to act with personal conviction about what is right . . .we must reduce our adult power and avoid the use of rewards and punishments as much as possible.
Constance Kamii

Happy Thanksgiving Quotes and Saying about giving thanks

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
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget [...]

Robb Sagendorph

Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you’ll find it there.
-Robb Sagendorph

Dr. Seuss

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
-Dr. Seuss

Yogi Bhajan

Don’t solve your problems, dissolve your problems–so that they should not recur again.
-Yogi Bhajan

Samuel Johnson

The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
-Samuel Johnson

Buddha

Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts.
- The Buddha

Willie Nelson

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.
- Willie Nelson

Thomas Jefferson

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
-Thomas Jefferson

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
-Marcus Tullius Cicero

Vincent Van Gogh

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others
-Vincent Van Gogh

Arthur H. Prince

The purpose of life is not to be happy. The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.
-Arthur H. Prince

Louisa May Alcott

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
-Louisa May Alcott