Quotes About Appreciation

the reason the middle class had it so good was because they expected things to be better. They wouldn't settle for less than they were worth. They'd just get into their shiny cars and go where they were appreciated. Poor people, on the other hand, were used to just taking what was given to them and being grateful for it.

If I can't play music that people appreciate, then I want to play music that people love.

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.

She took him for granted sometimes. That was the luxury of a long marriage.

John had learned a long time ago that the reason the middle class had it so good was because they expected things to be better. They wouldn't settle for less than they were worth. They'd just get into their shiny cars and go where they were appreciated. Poor people, on the other hand, were used to just taking what was given to them and being grateful for it.

If we cannot defend the things of this world and if none of the relationships in which we walk the earth can withstand the criticism which reduces the whole to relativity, we can still love them and we need take the criticism no more seriously than it deserves (pp. 29, 248).

I think happiness is a bit like a cake. If you have cake every single day of your life you'll get sick of it. If you're happy everyday, you'll get sick of being happy… That's a good saying actually. Happiness is like a cake. Have too much and you'll get sick of it.

People say Americans like coming to England to see the old stuff 'cos they haven't got any old things in their own country, but they would if they stopped crushing it or blowing shit up.

Life is too precious to be unhappy.' Ursula wondered how many people across London were saying the same thing that night. Perhaps in less salubrious surroundings. And there would be others, of course, who would be saying the same words to cleave to what they already had, not to discard it on a whim. Suddenly

Life is too precious to be unhappy.

Long lazy days like these will never come again in your life. You think they will but they won't.' -Sylvie

It was impossible to instruct on the subject of beauty, of course. It simply was. You were either moved by it or you weren't.

Why did people understand how precious each day was only once the doors to the grave had opened and they had looked inside? What was the point of that?

You don't see the point of English literature?' 'I don't see the point of studying it. Surely one just reads it?

Viola was a good reader, a bookworm—a phrase she hated. "How can a worm be a nice thing to be?" Viola said. I would be a worm, Nancy thought, if that was the only existence on offer, and then laughed at herself for having reached such a pass. "Without worms we wouldn't be able to grow food and everyone would starve," Nancy said reasonably.

Sometimes," Sylvie said, "One can mistake gratitude for love.

Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.

No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet.

I couldn't have found a better man than Brad. He still opens doors for me and brings me flowers. He's the sweetest goofball on the planet.

Men are fantastic - as a concept.

The man who respects a woman does not know what else to do with her.

It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.

I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.