Gratitude is a philosophy of life and great wisdom of life. Smart people should not haggle over what they don't have, nor should they blindly ask for it and inflate their selfish desires. Learn to be grateful for what you have and what life has given you. Only in this way can you have a positive outlook on life and a healthy attitude.
2. The origin of Thanksgiving:
Thanksgiving originated in Plymouth, a British colony in North America. 162 1 After the bumper harvest, the residents there held a celebration to thank God. Later, it was affirmed as a national holiday by American President Washington D.C. Lin. It is held on the fourth Thursday of June 165438+ 10 every year. At that time, the church will hold Thanksgiving service, and families will also hold parties, usually eating turkeys, to commemorate the past when their ancestors ate wild turkeys while exploring the new American continent.
3, life should learn to be grateful:
"Gratitude" is a life attitude, a moral character and a heartfelt word. If people lack gratitude, it will inevitably lead to indifference in interpersonal relationships. Therefore, everyone should learn to be grateful, which is especially important for children.
4. The meaning of Thanksgiving Day
As far as its significance and celebration methods are concerned, Thanksgiving Day has hardly changed since 162 1. On this day, churches of all denominations open their doors to thank God for his generosity.
Thanksgiving is a family holiday. All over the country, couples, children and the elderly, from cities to towns, from towns to towns, from towns to villages, all go back to their hometowns for the holidays. People who can't go home also make long-distance calls with their parents and family to share their gratitude. Thanksgiving dinner is actually the same throughout the country. The dining table is always filled with all kinds of delicious food. Naturally, it is mainly Turkey. Eating pumpkin pie is to remind everyone that Indians gave such gifts to the first settlers.
In most families, some traditional games are played after meals. Thanksgiving is a happy celebration, a day for family reunion and a time to renew friendship. On that day, even bachelors are always invited to other people's homes to share the joy of gratitude and thank God for his grace. This is also the meaning of Thanksgiving.
5. Famous sayings about gratitude
1. Be grateful in good times and bad, and let yourself contain the world with a soft heart. A soft heart is the strongest.
-Lin Qingxuan
2. I am grateful for this changing era. I thank countless people for complaining, because when others complain, it is your opportunity. Only in the changing times is it time for everyone to see clearly what they want and what they should give up.
—— Ma Yun
No matter how proud a person has achieved, he should drink water and think of his source. It should be remembered that his teacher sowed the initial seeds for their growth.
Madame Curie
Scum is always ungrateful: ingratitude is part of meanness. Hugo
An ungrateful child is more painful than a poisonous snake's teeth. -Shakespeare
6. No one is born to be kind to anyone, so we should learn to be grateful. -Jostan Gard
7. It is impossible to breed democracy by overemphasizing the culture of gratitude, because it is impossible to establish an equal relationship between people.
-Hegel
8. I look at the gray sky in the morning, grateful for the air, grateful for the light and grateful for being alive.
-Khalid Husseini
9. Gratitude is the product of higher education. Ordinary people can't get it. It is human nature to forget or be ungrateful.
Dale Carnegie
10. Bees sip honey from flowers and thank them when they leave. The grandiose butterfly thinks that flowers should thank him.
Tagore
1 1. If you do service work with gratitude and gratitude, you won't feel tired and tired. -Master Haitao
12. You must thank others for doing even the smallest thing for you. -Shakespeare
13. If you don't know how to be grateful, the power you can exercise is very limited, because gratitude connects you with power.
-Rhonda Bourne