Quotes About Appreciation

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

When your inner eyes open, you can find immense beauty hidden within the inconsequential details of daily life. When your inner ears open, you can hear the subtle, lovely music of the universe everywhere you go.

If a book is worth reading at all, it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants, designed to take your breath away when the brain and heart crave to linger in nobler enjoyment. Suspense drags you on; appreciation causes you to linger.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty, as they do air, without thought or appreciation.

A cheerful look makes a dish a feast

The circumstances of others seem good to us, while ours seem good to others.

A woman has to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

The good critic is he who narrates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's own appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is a vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

The sun, moon and stars would have disappeared long ago had they been within the reach of predatory human hands.

True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.

Man's attitude toward great qualities in others is often the same as toward high mountains - he admires them but he prefers to walk around them.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Be on the lookout for mercies. The more we look for them, the more of them we will see.... Better to loose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.

Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us.

Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life.

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk ... it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.

For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reveling in a much-anticipated vacation.