Quotes About Appreciation

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else.

Come quickly. You mustn't miss the dawn. It will never be just like this again.

As one chooses between the country and the human being, the country becomes much more wonderful.

The most wonderful, beautiful things in life are the simple things which we have all forgotten.

I am constantly being surprised by the number of people, in different parts of the world, who seem to be quite oblivious to the animal life around them.

they say that when you get old, as I am, your body slows down. I don't believe it. No, I think that is quite wrong. I have a theory that you do not slow down at all, but that life slows down for you. You understand me? Everything becomes languid, as it were, and you can notice so much more when things are in slow motion. The things you see! The extraordinary things that happen all around you, that you never even suspected before! It is really a delightful adventure, quite delightful!

Es la vida la que va frenando a los ojos de uno. Todo se hace más pausado, por así decirlo, y al contemplar las cosas a cámara lenta se aprecia mucho más. ¡Qué cosas se ven entonces! ¡Qué cosas tan extraordinarias se revelan a nuestro alrededor, que antes ni siquiera habíamos sospechado! ¡Es verdaderamente una aventura encantadora, deliciosa!

Resolutions mean willpower, willpower means achievement, achievement means success and failure, and the whole sequence means losing an appreciation of the gift. I have learned two sure things in the struggle between my desire for love and the oppression of my attachments. The first is that God is absolutely trustworthy. The second is that resolutions are absolutely not.

If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.

Quality is value to some person.

It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us count until we lose it.

We cannot know the future, nor can we change it,...It is best to be realistic about such things. But we have the time we have been given. So let us treasure it while we can.

Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, savour you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it will not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky, and want, more than all the world, your return.

A happy life is made up of little things . . . a gift sent, a letter written, a call made, a recommendation given, transportation provided, a cake made, a book lent, a check sent.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings - not your birthdays.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.

The groom is so much better for her than her last boyfriend. He's sophisticated, he brings her flowers and candy, he dines by candlelight. Her last boyfriend thought it was enough to spray her name on a fence.

Living in the past has one thing in its favour - it's cheaper.

Gratitude is the heart's memory.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.