Points to Ponder

"When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup."            -Sam Lefkowitz

 

 "If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get."               -Frank A. Clark

 

 "In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.                                                -Albert Schweitzer

 

 "Today I can complain because the weather is rainy or I can be thankful that the grass is getting watered for free.”  - Unknown

 

"Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not."                                                                                                                    -James Russell Lowell

 

 "Things could be a lot worse, the stress of the situation always could be worse, but I am alive and I have a lot to be thankful for - so I shall not waste my days with stress and frustrations - Life is too short!"                                     -Catherine Pulsifer

 

 

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

 

 

 "Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty."                                                                               -Doris Day

 

 "If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice."                                 -Meister Eckhart

 

 "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."                                                                                                                     -Epicurus

 

 "When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree."                                                -Vietnamese Proverb

 

 "Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."                                                                                                                       -Oprah Winfrey

 

 "God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you'?"                        - William Arthur Ward
           
                                   
  Wishing all our friends south of the border, particularly ex-Pat VC friends, a wonderful and thankful weekend.  And may we all go into this week of US Thanksgiving with open hearts full of gratitude.