Quotes About Appreciation

The parlor may have its charms, but the Japanese toilet truly is a place of spiritual repose.

Pero cuando, sustituidas éstas (las lámparas eléctricas con pantalla de papel) por los candelabros, de luz todavía más tenue, se observan las bandejas y boles bajo el parpadeo de la trémula llama, se descubre cómo el brillo de todos esos objetos lacados, hondo y espeso como las aguas de un estanque, va revistiéndose de un encanto completamente diferente al que había mostrado hasta entonces.

Más que de la mujer, el hombre tiende a enamorarse de los fragmentos y detalles de las cosas.

You know why I've survived in this job, year after year, lousy assignment after lousy assignment, with no counseling whatsoever? Because I have a keen appreciation of the ludicrous. Also because I have no choice.

Danach folgte eine Haarbürste. »Für Mädchen«, sagte er. »Pink mit Glitter.« »Du kennst mich so gut.«

One of the many great sources of happiness is to get a glimpse, here and there, of a new aspect of the incredible world we live in and of our incredible role in it."17

The aim of this step is threefold: (1) to recognize and appreciate the unknown and unknowable, (2) to become sensitive to overconfident assertions of certainty in ourselves and other people, and (3) to make ourselves aware of the numinous mystery of each human being we encounter during the day. First

It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.

Where, My Lord, is music bred—upon the instrument or within the ear that listens? The loveliness of woman is created in the eye of man.

Iš vis? civilizacijos išradim? ?iabuviai daugiausia vertina degtukus, dvirat? ir šautuv?, jei jais žavisi, ta?iau ir j? nedvejodami atsisakys, jei tik užeis kalba apie karv?.

Once you've spent a winter buried in the Alpine snow foraging for food, it's hard to complain over heat.

It's funny how many little things you get used to - attached to, even - and never realize until you travel abroad and those things are not available.

Sometimes the little things are the big things.

It near broke my heart to treat such a good piece of meat in such a way. Aye, Red said with feeling. I watched ye do it, and it near made me cry,too. Sophia laughed and hugged her father. When this is over,Mary will cook you an entire leg of mutton, perfectly roasted and seasoned. His eyes brightened. With mint sauce? Aye, Mary said, beaming.

You,my lord, are giving me goose bumps. Every beautiful woman deserves to be clothed in no less.

then tossed the coat into the water. "Hurst! That's a perfectly good coat!" "Yes, and I have a perfectly good life. One of those two things is not replaceable.

I was not giving you a heated look." "What do you call it then?" "I was merely appreciating your, ah…finer points." "Yes, well, I could do the same for you except—" "Except what?" "They are all under the desk.

Men never understand that all a woman truly wants is a man who will listen.Understand.Pay her bills.And,of course,love her madly even when her hips wide due to an unfortunate addiction to bon bons. - Lady Jersey to Mrs.Cowper,as the two watched dancers waltz at Almack's.

The sunset you see is always better than the one you don't. More stars are always better than less.

I'd learned long ago not to hanker after what I didn't have but to appreciate what I did have

Sometimes the most worthwhile things are right in front of our eyes. We just make them hard because we think that gives them more value.

Dom decided that when life returned to normal—even after fourteen years, he had to think that it could—he'd follow Cole's example and treat money as easy come, easy go. People were what mattered. You couldn't replace them, and they didn't earn interest. They just slipped away a day at a time, and you had to make the most of every precious moment.

No amount of flowers or pretty compliments could ever measure up to a man who did housework.

Life was like that. You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.