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Quotes About Appreciation

Most people think they need to say "thank you" to the world. But the world is constantly saying "thank you" to you for being alive, for creating new things, new energies, new experiences. Every day give the world at least one more reason to whisper "thank you" to you. If you can hear that whisper, everything else, every gift in life, becomes expected. You earned it. Just take it.
~ James Altucher
It's a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
~ James Baldwin
I am not trying to be méchant when I talk about women. I respect women—very much—for their inside life, which is not like the life of a man.
~ James Baldwin
Es un milagro darnos cuenta de que alguien nos quiere.
~ James Baldwin
It's a miracle to realize that somebody loves you:
~ James Baldwin
Ah! I am told that New York is very beautiful. Is it more beautiful than Paris?' 'Oh, no,' I said, 'no city is more beautiful than Paris'.
~ James Baldwin
Close up, you see the person's wrinkles, warts, and pimples; when close to you, the person has innumerable ways of driving you up the wall: but when far from you, these very same imperfections become irreplaceable and beautiful, testifying, after all, to how much each cared about the other. Close up, the person's imperfections matter, but from far away, you see your own. The questions then is not How did I stand her? but How did she stand me?
~ James Baldwin
I am proud of these people not because of their colour but because of their intelligence and their spiritual force and their beauty.
~ James Baldwin
Our sole concern with the long dead is aesthetic
~ James Branch Cabell
This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity.
~ James Clavell
Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you can do will change that. Today you're alive and here and honored, and blessed with good fortune. Look at this sunset, it's beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity. Lose
~ James Clavell
After all those horrors at Changi, you don't detest them?" After a pause Peter Marlowe shook his head. "I don't detest anyone. Even Grey. It takes all of my mind and energy to appreciate that I'm alive.
~ James Clavell
You got somebody in your corner, you lucky ... and blessed. And when you get that, you gotta know it, stand by it, and treat it with care. To nurture it. To build on it.
~ James Earl Hardy
Life is sweet, even to the aged; and, for that matter, I've known some that seemed to set much store by it when it got to be of the least value.
~ James Fenimore Cooper
Thank you Lilly, Leonard, MIles, I love you and I thank you
~ James Frey
I reach up and out and I put my arms around Leonard and I hug him. I don't know any words, so I let my actions speak. Strong, simple and deep appreciation. The actions speak true.
~ James Frey
It's about learning how to slow down... I think this Covid environment that we're in there's a lot of sadness and a lot of pressure going on in terms of the uncertainty, but what it is teaching us or forcing us to do is appreciate the small things: be grateful for a slower pace of life.
~ Melissa Leong
All my grandparents and great aunts and uncle love 'Foyle's War.' They all lived through the war and love to see it reconstructed so authentically.
~ Honeysuckle Weeks
I'm adopted by my uncle and aunt, who I look to as my parents and people who really did everything they could to put me on the right path. I'm really grateful to them.
~ Tyrann Mathieu
If Uncle Martin were here today, he would surely commend us for giving honor where honor is due.
~ Alveda King
I remember my uncle, who was a jazz pianist, when we did Deep Purple 'In Rock,' he ran from the room screaming, holding his ears: 'I can't hear anything. I can't hear any instruments.' And I was rubbing my hands going, 'Great.'
~ Ian Gillan
I had an uncle who adored Al Green. He was white, but he only listened to black music.
~ Tricky
Change can be uncomfortable and scary. But I believe change exists to teach us to appreciate and enjoy the right now.
~ Gretchen Bleiler
I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they'll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth... Even when I'm uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold... I think, 'Thank God for what I've got.'
~ Sue Townsend