10 Book and Literary Quotes for Thanksgiving

      These past few years i haven't really had a normal thanksgiving, with the abundant amount food and the overwhelming amount of family. So, this is the first year, in a long time, that i'm actually going to have a lot of family in one place. It's kinda weird to think about. I'm kind of dreading it and looking forward to it at the same time, if that makes any sense. 
       As i was reading these quotes i was thinking about how we don't really know or realize how much we have until its gone. I know we're told this all the time, but we don't really think about it. We often times just nod our heads and move on with our busy schedules.
       Please, just think about this topic, and everything you have, while your reading these quotes.            



1." There are an infinite amount of numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger set of infinite numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm  likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful. "                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    - from The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

2." Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     - Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. " I do not think of all the misery, but of the glory that remains. Go outside into the fields,  nature and the sun, go out and seek happiness in yourself and in God. Think of the beauty that again and again discharges itself within and without you and be happy. "

                                                                                                                - Anne Frank

4." Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter every day epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world."

                                                                                                                                    

                                                                                                       - John Milton

5. " Take full account of what Excellencies you posses, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not. "          

                                                                                                     - Marcus Aurelius

6. " Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity:  it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. "  

                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                - William Faulkner

7."At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. "

                                                                                                - Albert Schweitzer

8. " Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine's Day, are in one way or another about being thankful. "

                                                                               
                                                             - from Eating Animals by Johnathan Safran Foer 

9. " In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of  human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices. " 
                                                                                       
                                                                  - from Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

10. " . . . for some of us, books are as important as anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid pieces of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet you or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean;  they show us how to live and die. They are full of things that you don't get in life . . . wonderful, lyrical language, for instance. And quality of attention:  we may notice amazing details during the course of a day but we rarely let ourselves stop and really pay attention. An author makes you notice, makes you pay attention and this is a great gift. My gratitude for good writing is unbounded;  I'm grateful for it the way I'm grateful for the ocean.
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                        - Anne Lamott



       What are you thankful for?