Quotes About Appreciation

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

Honey, when I look at you, you're right, I don't see anything similar to those other women. But don't you see? That's what makes you so special. That's why I love you.

If I were president? First thing I'd do is take care of the schoolteachers. I'm not saying we should start 'em out with six figures, but in some places they've got to be mother, father, brother, sister, and mentor. They're real important people. Let's give 'em a raise -- and attract the best people to the job.

Just try to be angry with someone who fed you something delicious.

Algunas cosas pueden parecer nada y lo son todo. Hay que saber ver, aprender a apreciar lo menudo y a despreciar lo que sólo hace bulto. Nada que parece grande ni que reluce en exceso tiene gran validez.. Lo bueno es aquello que sin grandes destellos lo llena todo

Esta tarde, por ejemplo, es distinta a cualquier otra y nunca se repetirá. Y cuando tú y yo seamos viejos, ni siquiera nos acordaremos. Es imposible apresar el tiempo, ¿no te parece?

mil gracias de todo corazón.

Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph; with time it fades.

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.

I like pouring your tea, lifting the heavy pot, and tipping it up, so the fragrant liquid steams in your china cup. Or when you're away or at work, I like to think of your cupped hands as you sip, as you sip, of the faint half-smile of your lips.

No jewel hold a candle to the cuckoo spit hung from the blade of grass at your ear. No chandelier see you better lit than here.

I tried to think of something equally kind to say, but he seemed to have used up all the eloquence in the room.

Recognize your wealth but realize your measurement

To the High Heavens I praise the potato, and recommend planting it, eating it, and honoring it.

I don't think a person is mature until he understands what a wonderful world he lives in and that a lifetime isn't long enough to get to know it.

How far I've come! I'm the same girl, yet not the same. I wonder if it's always like that? Folks keep growing from one person to another all their lives, and life is just a lot of everyday adventures. Well, whatever life is, I like it.

They may appreciate endowment, but they admire effort, for no matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.

Is the brain designed to make us flare in anger when we think we are being attacked? Fine—but most of us learn to count to ten and find alternatives to beating the other guy with a cudgel. An appreciation of how dissonance works, in ourselves and others, gives us some ways to override our wiring. And protect us from those who can't.

Daisy had her own criteria for judging people. On the whole, she expected to like people she met, and on the whole, she did. It seemed to her a much pleasanter way to live than to go about looking for superficial defects such as the wrong class, or a brown face, thus eliminating a lot of delightful people from one's acquaintance.

PRAYER Dear Lord, teach me to cultivate a thankful heart as a gift to You and to the world around me. Remind me when I grumble and complain that Your will for me is to speak blessings and to be a blessing to everyone I know. Amen.

It's funny how things don't matter any more when it's too late.

Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you.

She was never overcome by drabness or squalor. She never glamorized anything; yet she saw the loveliness in everything.

His most remarkable gift, as Laura saw it, was a deep and profound contentment with what he had.