Quotes About Appreciation

Even if he hadn't given it to me, you don't throw away another person's books. If I want to read something, I want to read it.

I ate and drank slowly as one should (cook fast, eat slowly) and without distractions such as (thank heavens) conversation or reading. Indeed eating is so pleasant one should even try to suppress thought. Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Every meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.

How sad for those who cannot enjoy what are after all prime pleasures of daily life, and perhaps for some the only ones, eating and drinking.

He was attentive but impersonal, and esteemed rather than loved.

Give yourself to these great works of art. They suffice for a lifetime.

I'm totally unworthy of this love which you are offering to me.

enjoying literature as those alone enjoy it who have little else to enjoy.

I can browse indefinitely in a stationer's shop, indeed there is hardly anything in a good stationer's which I do not like and want.

Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.

What meaning has a compliment if one hears it night and day.

Immortality means being loved by many anonymous people.

Art has a magic quality: the more minds that digest it, the longer it lives.

Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring, Too bad! Only four hundred fifty-one. (Those would be my next-to-last words. The last ones will be: I love you, Janet.) [They were. -Janet.]

We would grow tired of it, Grandpa, if it were beautiful all the time. A little change from night to night is good for us.' 'For you, because you're young, Wanda. You have many, many evenings ahead of you. I don't. I want more good ones.

Many years later he looked through one of my books and said, How did you learn all this, Isaac? From you, Pappa, I said. From me? I don't know any of this. You didn't have to, Pappa, I said. You valued learning and you taught me to value it. Once I learned to value it, the rest came without trouble.

Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases.

The pleasantness of their company outweighed the regret of their passing. On the whole, then, it is better to experience what you experience now than not to.

that even the most casual of compliments can be given that extra little touch that women adore.

Bliss approached him slowly, placed her hand on his shoulder. "Pel, I—I think well of you." Pelorat looked away. "It's all right, Bliss. You needn't be kind." "I'm not being kind, Pel. I think—very well of you.

La gratitud es mejor y más eficaz cuando no se evapora en frases vacías.

Even a hungry audience is better than a deaf audience.

What can we do with this happiness that appears for no obvious reason, the joy that needs no cause to exist?

Cada minuto es precioso y no podemos perderlo en malentendidos, impaciencia, celos, mezquindades y tantas otras tonterías que ensucian las relaciones. En realidad, esta fórmula se puede aplicar en cualquier edad, porque siempre los días están contados

que aceptara a los niños como se aceptan los árboles, con gratitud, porque son una bendición, pero sin expectativas o deseos; no se espera que los árboles sean diferentes, se los ama tal cual son.