Count Your Blessings

It’s November! Thanksgiving is only a few short weeks away and it’s already the halfway point of autumn before the winter solstice (December 22nd). Some thoughts to carry you through the holiday rush;
✦ “Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.”
Elizabeth Bibesco
✦ “It isn’t the great pleasures that count the most; it’s making a great deal out of the little
ones.” Jean Webster
✦ “I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet.” Persian proverb
✦ “Appreciation is yeast, lifting ordinary to extraordinary.” Mary-Ann Petro
✦ “The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you
don’t have.” Woody Allen
✦ “Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold.” Maurice Setter
✦ “I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.” Sara Teasdale
✦ “When life’s problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are
coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.” Ann Landers
✦ “Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.” Ruth Ann Schabacker
✦ “Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.” Rose Kennedy
✦ “Earth’s crammed with heaven.” Elizabeth Barrett Browning