This Thanksgiving, we're looking at a few thoughts on being thankful. Not surprisingly, we'll begin with the word thank which (thankfully) is one of the oldest words in our lexicon. Thank traces back to the Old English thonc meaning "thought," "will," "mercy," "favor," "pleasure," and "gratitude" and is akin to both an Old High German word meaning "memory," "thought," and "gratitude" and to the Old Norse and Gothic words for gratitude. Still older linguistic kin include words in Latin, Albanian, and Tocharian meaning (variously) "to know," "to think," "feel," and "love." (来源：http://www.EnglishCN.com)

Now that we've shared what we know about thank, we think you'd love to hear a few thoughts on thankfulness.

William Faulkner believed it was important to express one's thankfulness. "Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity," he said; "it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all." Thornton Wilder believed appreciation was the basis of life. "We can only be said to be alive," he asserted, "in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."

We'll close by repeating some words from the Buddha himself: "Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die, so let us all be thankful."