Thankfulness is the unconscious acknowledgment of a Higher Power.

It is the indestructible evidence of man's permanent belief in
just government of the universe.

It is the most hopeful, the most promising feature of man's
character.

For THANKFULNESS itself we should be thankful. ----

If you want to succeed, cultivate a feeling of hopeful
thankfulness.

Hopefulness, thankfulness and success are as near akin as light,
heat and motion--the same force underlies, makes up the first
trio, as it does the second.

If you find it hard to be thankful, read a little of history, and
thankfulness will come. Thousands of millions of men have lived
and suffered to make your existence here at least bearable. You
may not be satisfied, but you have comforts that were not dreamed
of by the luckiest a few centuries back. You think the
prosperous have too many privileges.

Perhaps they have. But when your great-grandfather was a young
man a nobleman could order his lackeys to seize Voltaire the
greatest mind in Europe--and beat him almost to death. Voltaire
was locked up in the Bastile for complaining.