Quotes About Appreciation

If a person gives you his time, he can give you no more precious gift.

Timely service, like timely gifts, is doubled in value.

Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today, this hour, this minute is the day, the hour, the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good, with all of its trials and troubles, and perhaps more interesting because of them.

Each day provides its own gifts.

Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!

Taking time to live is taking time to appreciate simple silence as better than any kind of talk, or watching a flower, or watching a guy wash the windows on a skyscraper and wondering what he is thinking.

Each day should be passed as though it were our last.

One should count each day a separate life.

If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

Response to clapping: "Thank you for ovating."

A lot of you want me to hurry through the introduction. That's because you're so much older you don't want to waste a minute of your life.

Thanks for the nice introduction. Next to my resume, that's the closest I'll ever come to perfection.

In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Envy is a kind of praise.

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night, a flower, everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand.

God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.

Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.

When you look at the world in a narrow way, how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way, how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly, how selfish it is! But when you look at it in a broad, generous, friendly spirit, what wonderful people you find in it.

When we have not what we love, we must love what we have.

It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.