Quotes About Appreciation

Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists, as the mother can love the unborn child.

In making sense of what you say, in appreciating your jokes, in unmasking your chess-stratagems, in following your arguments and in hearing you pick holes in my arguments, I am not inferring to the workings of your mind, I am following them. Of course, I am not merely hearing the noises that you make, or merely seeing the movements that you perform. I am understanding what I hear and see. But this understanding is not inferring to occult causes.

Don't look for perfect endings, but allow not knowing to lead you to a deeper appreciation of life, so that you get your joy back on the way to an outcome that remains to be revealed.

Well, if you can't have what you want, you could try to want what you have.

Once back home I would adjust my lens to the resolution through which I perceived the people and provinces of the globe. My daily commute, the supermarket check out line, neighborhood walks, pedestrian tasks of any job would inspire me as much as the stir of white linen canopies in Venice's Piazza San Marco; the velvety dunes of the eastern Sahara; Bali's kaleidoscope of color; my Vietnamese sisters.

Though I have not lived in New York City for more than two decades, these storytellers – from the United States, Britain and Canada – have touched my heart with their openness, inspired me with their joie de vivre and deepened my appreciation for my hometown as a worldwide phenomenon. Welcome to our New York.

New insights from being present are a gift.

Those who receive the blessing are those who see beyond its disguise.

The more present we are to life, the more enjoyment we get out of life. The opposite is also true: The less present we are to life, the less enjoyment we get out of life.

Eating, loving, singing and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool.

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

Lei è l'amore...Quando lo trovi, da qualunque parti arrivi, accettalo come un dono e tienilo ben stretto...ha la capacità di farti sentire pieno di energia senza lasciarti la possibilità di capire quanto te ne stia in realtà togliendo.

Mientras se contempla la luna en el cielo se pierde la perla que tenemos en la mano», afirma el maestro Shoshan.

la gratitud, según lo creo, es entre las demás virtudes sumamente de alabar y su contraria de maldecir

Admiradores A admiração, mesmo a mais calorosa, tem sempre um subentendido de condescendência, isto é, a certeza de uma superioridade.

DeÈ™tept?ciunea nu este altceva decît gradul cel mai înalt al mediocrit??ii. DeÈ™tept?ciunea e acea form? superioar? de inteligen?? pe care o pot înÈ›elege, aprecia È™i iubi toÈ›i.

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority you have none.

To joyously savor one singleinstant of initiallife I seek an innocentcountry

Every time I fall in love with a book, I just feel grateful and thrilled to have it in my life.

Most times we're so focused on what we think we want that we can't appreciate how happy we already are. It's only when we forget about our problems and help others forget theirs that we realize how good we really have it.

You never fully appreciate what you had until you don't have it anymore