Quotes About Appreciation

And I think in this empty world there was room for me and a mountain lion. And I think in the world beyond, how easily we might spare a million or two humans And never miss them. Yet what a gap in the world, the missing white frost-face of that slim yellow mountain lion! D. H. Lawrence Mountain Lion

Many times have I stolen gems from the depths And presented them to my beloved shore, He takes in silence but still I give For he welcomes me ever. Khalil Gibran Song of the Wave

Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

After the tragedy, New Yorkers are more united than ever in their vision, as well as in appreciation what living in freedom means - and that if we stand together, we can accomplish anything.

Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me.

Caring has the gift of making the ordinary special.

Here they had been for twenty-one years merely using water that continued to flow, and yet they had never given any real consideration to where the water came from.

One of them went to get the thing for which he had cried out. When they brought it, Ish was delighted, and now they laughed at him as if he really were a child, good-naturedly. Ish did not mind. He had what he wanted. It was a scarlet flower—a geranium, which had adapted itself to the new life and lived through these years. It was not the flower but the color, Ish realized, that had given him that sudden pang and made him cry out.

I have the virtue of being still amongst the living. Some would say that is my only virtue.

I thank you for calling them off, young ser. I promise you, they would have found me indigestible.

For Phyllis who made me put dragons in

Our gods gave us legs to run with, noses to smell with, hands to touch and feel. What mad cruel god would give a man eyes and tell him he must forever keep them shut, and never look at all the beauty in the world?

A culture with cats is richer and more humane than one deprived of their unique companionship.

So do not waste my time. It is the most precious thing I have, time. It is the most precious thing any of us have.

The living should smile, for the dead cannot

Never ask the baker what went into the pie. Just eat.

Tienes el don de hacer reír a los hombres- dijo la septa Lemore a Tyrion mientras secaba los dedos de sus pies. -Deberías estar agradecido al Padre de arriba. Otorga dones a sus hijos. -Es cierto- asintió gratamente. "Y cuando muera, por favor que entierren conmigo una ballesta, así podré agradecer al Padre de arriba por sus dones de la misma manera que agradecí al padre de abajo".

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.

I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.

Only then (nearly out the door, so to speak) did I realize how unspeakably beautiful all of this was, how precisely engineered for our pleasure, and saw that I was on the brink of squandering a wondrous gift, the gift of being allowed, every day, to wander this vast sensual paradise, this grand marketplace lovingly stocked with every sublime thing.

I find it very worrying that we don't talk about nature anymore. We talk about natural resources as if everything had a price tag. You cannot buy spiritual values at a shopping mall. An old-growth forest, a clear river, the flight of a golden eagle, the howl of a wolf, the vitality of a tiger, space and quiet without motors, TVs, mobiles — these are intangibles. Those are the values that people need, that uplift our spirit.

Buying food never did make sense to me. When I finally spend some money I prefer to have some permanent evidence of the expenditure. Doing it on something that is immediately consumed leaves me feeling cheated. For much the same reason, I suppose, I have never smoked. Buying something and then setting it on fire is incomprehensible. So

Life is not the breaths you take but the moments that take your breath away.