Hopefully, I brought people a certain joy. That will be a wonderful legacy.
Thanksgiving Quotes
This page is not a collection of Thanksgiving writing. It is made from three others, gratitude, family and happiness, and sorted by quality. A handful of entries mention the holiday itself, from writers as different as Harriet Beecher Stowe, the poet John Keble, Will Carleton, Patton Oswalt and Ted Nugent.
Most of what you will see is general, and it makes good table talk, with more sentiment than usual and less irony. Glance at the flag and the source before you print one on a place card.
Most quoted on thanksgiving:
Happiness is a reward that comes to those that have not looked for it.
The one delusion you never had in your life was the one about the permanence of happiness.
Nothing in life produce a more powerful joy than a near miss by the Angel of Death.
The thing that really matters to me is well-being and happiness.
Be grateful for the highs — and be grateful for the lows — 'cause it's in the lows where you learn.
I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.
May the people marvel admiringly, and may Utu witness it in joy.
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.
True happiness
Consists not in the multitude of friends,
But in the worth and choice.
Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves.