Quotes About Appreciation

I could spend the whole afternoon telling you about him, but it's not gonna do much good, is it? You never smelled his hair after he just got out of the bath, or carried him from the car after he'd fallen asleep on the way home, or heard the way he laughed when someone tickled him. So you'll just have to take my word for it: He was a great kid and he made you glad to be alive.

She was about to laugh at the selfishness of her reaction, but she was distracted by the cool evening air when she stepped outside, the dusky blue of the sky, and the freshly paved street in front of her, its blackness bisected by a bright yellow line, a world so inexplicably beautiful that she forgot what she was thinking about and just stood still for a moment, breathing it all in.

Have you hugged your customers lately? Have you told 'em you care? Have you reached out boldly and said 'We know you're there?

Larry, wouldn't it be a fine thing, a swell thing, a boon to the community of man and to all creatures great and small, if this girl's soul was as ripe and stunning as her ass.

No tengo lo que quería, eso es verdad, pero quiero lo que tengo.

The value of the gifts is in what the act of giving communicates.

He can't value you more than you value yourself.

A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or fruit are not defective; they are that.

I've traveled. All over. I've never seen anything like you. How could anything be put together like you? Do you know how beautiful you are? Have you looked at yourself?' 'I'm looking now.

A woman is an important somebody and sometimes you win the triple crown: good food, good sex, and good talk. Most men settle for any one, happy as a clam if they get two. But listen, let me tell you something. A good man is a good thing, but there is nothing in the world better than a good good woman. She can be your mother, your wife, your girlfriend, your sister, or somebody you work next to. Don't matter. You find one, stay there. You see a scary one, make tracks.

Like many of us left here, I thought I knew you. Now I discover that, in your company, it is myself I know. That is the astonishing gift of your art and your friendship: you gave us ourselves to think about, to cherish.

Which was what love was: unmotivated respect.

A good man is a good thing, but there is nothing in the world better than a good woman. She can be your mother, your wife, your girlfriend, your sister, or somebody you work next to. Don't matter. You find one, stay there. You see a scary one, make tracks.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to paint, photograph or even remember it. It is enough.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

Instead of ignoring her infirmity, pretending it was not there, he made it seem like something special and endearing. For the first time Pauline felt that her bad foot was an asset

Now I know why Baby Suggs pondered color her last years. She never had time to see, let alone enjoy it before.

She didn't even know she had a neck until Jude remarked on it, or that her smile was anything but the spreading of her lips until he saw it as a small miracle.

Nadie sabía apreciar la seguridad que proporcionaba la compañía de un fantasma.

to eat, walk and sleep anywhere was life as good as it got.

I don't think many people appreciate silence or realize that it is as close to music as you can get

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

You your best thing, Sethe. You are." His holding fingers are holding hers. "Me? Me?

Now I can look at things again because she's here to see them too.