Quotes about being thankful

I just thought I would share some quotes that I like about being thankful to end off the year. Enjoy!
Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping stones to greater experience. Perhaps someday you will be thankful for some temporary failure in a particular direction. When one door closes, another always opens.
-- Author Unknown

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

Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
-- Eileen Caddy
It isn't what you have in your pocket that makes you thankful, but what you have in your heart.
-- Author UnknownNone 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 There is always, always, always something to be thankful for.
-- Author Unknown Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
-- John Wooden

You won't be happy with more until you're happy with what you've got.
-- Viki King

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.  ~G.B. Stern

Gratitude is an art of painting an adversity into a lovely picture.  ~Kak Sri

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.  ~Epictetus

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

“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it” - William Arthur Ward