Quotes About Appreciation

A chef's two best friends are salt and praise.

Even if you have countless blessings, it's good to count them anyway.

To multiply your joy, count your blessings.

There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a life-long respect for the price of butter and eggs.

Whoever needs milk, bows to the animal.

My dear friend: Three or four months on the edge of the desert, all alone — how I envy you; and again, how I thank Heaven I am not in a similar position.

...the deepest principle of Human Nature is the craving to be appreciated...

And thank you for a house full of people I love. Amen.

I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.

Hug a firefighter and feel warm all over.

Watching the iris, The faint and fragile petals — How am I worthy?

If the rose comes, we eat and drink near it; if it departs, we do not regret it.

Always eat grapes downwards — that is, always eat the best grape first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have a good grape in the lot...

Is there anything like the odor of strawberries? The next best thing to tasting them is to smell them; one may put his nose to the dish while the fruit is yet too rare and choice for his fingers. Touch not and taste not, but take a good smell and go mad!

Wouldn't it be an exhilarating tonic for the soul to take a moment to appreciate the simple, good things in life which are so bountiful...?

If we were blind for one day each year, how we would enjoy the other three hundred and sixty-four.

As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessèd world.

Gratitude is the music of the heart, when its chords are swept by the breeze of kindness.

If you have lived, take thankfully the past; Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.

Every day, spread the magical stardust of thankfulness into your life.

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the play and the opera, And grace before the concert and pantomime, And grace before I open a book, And grace before sketching, painting, Swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing; And grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.

Appreciate comfort. Also appreciate those things that knock us off course enough to realize we should appreciate the comfort.

When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.