Nancy Fraze posted on November 21, 2011
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Is for thankful. Oprah Winfrey said, “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.”
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Is for happy. Did you know it’s a choice to be happy? So many people think when such-and-so happens, then and only then will they reach happiness -- as though it was a sort of destination.
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Is for attitude. You and you alone determine your own attitude. Victor Frankl wrote, "We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread… they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”
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Is for never. In 1941, during WWII, Winston Churchill, prime minister of England, said, "Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, give up. Never give up. Never give up. Never give up."
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Is for kaizen. The Japanese developed this practice of a continual upward spiral of improvement.
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Is for friendship. “I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world,” said Thomas Edison.
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Is for understanding. “To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to,” wrote poet Khalil Gibran.
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Is for love. “A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge,” wrote Thomas Carlyle.
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This Thanksgiving, may you be thankful, happy, [have a positive] attitude, never [give up], [experience] kaizen!, [create]understanding and love.
Nancy Fraze is a member of Office Dynamic’s Media Team and a frequent contributor to the OD blog; she also blogs about film at allbestfilms.wordpress.com. She is Poet Laureate Emeritus for the Town of Danville. Nancy runs a creative writing and editing business, “Phrase, Ink” and published her first poetry book, “Paper Wait” in 2008.