Quotes About Appreciation

To appreciate a rose, you do not sniff the soil from which it grew; to understand a rose, you must know the soil that nourished it and gave it life.

A man of little learning deems that little a great deal; a frog, never having seen the ocean, considers its well a great sea.

If I paid $3 or $4 for a cigar, first I'd sleep with it.

I view investing as a method of purchasing assets to gain profit in the form of reasonably predictable income (dividends, interest, or rentals) and /or appreciation over the long term.

The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth.

No book, however good, should ever be read as a task. If you do so read a book, it is very likely that you will not only get nothing out of it but that you will have toward the book and its author a repugnance that is unwarranted.

Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.

I'm a jewelry girl. I became with friends with designer Irene Neuwirth a few years ago. At that point, I just used to wear my wedding rings. Very low key. Now, if I could, I'd be draped from head to toe in her jewelry all the time. Everything she makes is beautiful.

He ne'er considered it as loth To look a gift-horse in the mouth, And very wisely would lay forth No more upon it than 'twas worth; But as he got it freely, so He spent it frank and freely too: For saints themselves will sometimes be, Of gifts that cost them nothing, free.

what we charish is not important,what we take for granted is.

If life has those moments — ecstasies of health, youth and peace... — treasure them.

He who first met the Highlands' swelling blue Will love each peak that shows a kindred hue, Hail in each crag a friend's familiar face, And clasp the mountain in his mind's embrace.

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

You can't expect men to appreciate you. Sometimes they will, sometimes they won't. Even women won't always appreciate what you do, so why should the men understand you any better? The only person who will always know what you did, and why you did it, is yourself. If you try to do what's right, that should be enough. Remind yourself of that when it seems as if it isn't.

This is the key to life: To expect everything to be given to you from above, yet to be genuinely surprised and forever grateful, when they are. Expecting all good things to be yours, while not knowing how to take anything for granted. If there may be a key in life, this is the key.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

Many people have sighed for the 'good old days' and regretted the 'passing of the horse,' but today, when only those who like horses own them, it is a far better time for horses.

You must live every day as if it counts, which means to love all of it. Never let a single one go by without noting the color of the sky, the song of the bird, the face of the one you love best. And don't let yourself get talked out of the things you really care about, don't put off what you want to be.

With so many marvels around you, did you stop seeing some of them?

Show me the woman that leaves a man some breathing room, acknowledges he might know a thing or two about the human heart, and I'll show you a rare and happy man.

He doubted that the drivers hurtling down the interstate even noticed the herd, the coyote, or the dogfight in the clouds. Like so many vistas in the state, Joe thought, it looked like a whole lot of nothing at first. But if one stopped and observed, really sat still for a few minutes and observed, there was a lot going on. The high-steppe desert was alive and complex. •

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded, gives no thanksgiving. —Francis Quarles

Thanks for keeping your eye on them. I appreciate it. But I wish you wouldn't do that with the ears. It's been a long time Nate said, I kinda missed it/

What would six dollars and fifty cents buy? Not a tape deck for Marla. Maybe a Christmas flower arrangement special for Mom. But she loved roses. He'd buy her one long-stemmed rose and get Dad a cactus plant. Something with prickers that you better not touch should suit him.