Quotes About Appreciation

You are one gorgeous creature," he said. "Did any of those loser boyfriends ever tell you that?" Not in so many words. Not in any words, really. And it was nice to hear, even if it came from Theo.

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

I looked at the book lying on a table. Though not a great reader myself, I knew that those who were - even Nora - could grow testy when one came between them and their books.

You don't have to pay its rent just because it is a book.

That's the thing about luxury, darlings. The moment you become accustomed to it, it is no longer a luxury but a necessity. People forget this.

Well, thank you, ma'am," he said still breathing hard, his heated body sleek with sweat, his smile angelic. "We … try.

I don't do effortless myself, but I like it in other people.

Please teach me to appreciate what I have, before time forces me to appreciate what I had.

I don't know how to thank you.' 'You can help someone else down the road, when the time comes.' Emmy fingered away wetness at her eyes. She knew she would remember that moment for the rest of her life, that moment when someone who barely knew her fulfilled every childhood wish she'd ever had to feel she mattered.

What's there to remember if not the good things?

We shouldn't think for a moment that just because their lives are short they shouldn't be here.

The key to retirement is to find joy in the little things.

Wabi-sabi" is a Japanese expression for the beauty of impermanence,

A book feels like a thing alive in this moment, and also alive on a continuum, from the moment the thoughts about it first percolated in the writer's mind to the moment it sprang of the printing press - a lifeline that continues as someone sits with it and marvels over it, and it continues on, time after time after time.

Sometimes we get this great gift, man, and we just take it for granted. We only figure it out, how much we lost, when it's gone. —Short Sammy

Sometimes we get this great gift, man, and we just take it for granted. We only figure it out, how much we lost, when it's gone.

Don't you know you're beautiful?" Fanny picked up one of my hands as casually as she would a teacup. "Look at this, look at these delicate bones, nails as glossy as porcelain. I can't stand it." She dropped my hand and fell back into her chair in one motion. "I think it's that curl of a smile that finally does them in—partway between a sneer and a laugh. Makes them work to impress you.

Don't try to get him to "see everything" [at an art museum]. You'll give him pictorial indigestion. One sure way of making a person hate apples is to take him to an orchard at 9:00 a.m. and force feed him apples until noon! Indeed, the revulsion may last a lifetime. So it is with pictures and museums.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

I love words," said Livvie. "I have always loved and respected words . . . since a long time ago.

In the end, it's only the moments that we have, the kiss on the palm, the joint wonder at the furrowed texture of a fir trunk or at the infinitude of grains of sand in a dune. Only the moments.

In the end, it's only the moments that we have.

No matter where life takes you...the place where you stand at any moment is holy ground. Love hard and love wide and love long, and you will find goodness in it.