Quotes About Appreciation

Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.

This is the greatest momemt of your life and your out missing it

You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception.

You wake up, and that's enough.

When you ate her tuna casserole, you didn't talk or flip through a National Geographic. Your eyes and ears stayed inside your mouth. Your whole world kept inside your mouth, feeling and careful for the little balled-up tinfoils Irene Casey would hide in the tuna parts. A side effect of eating slow was, you naturally, genuinely tasted, and the food tasted better. Could be other ladies were better cooks, but you'd never notice.

If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you.

It's a look that says: Thank you for not sharing.

Raymond K. K. Hessel, your dinner is going to taste better than any meal you've ever eaten, and tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of your entire life.

If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. Everything else about their checkbook balance and radio songs and messy hair went out the window.

Es gracioso que la belleza del arte tenga mucho más que ver con el marco que con la obra de arte en sí misma.

No man has to be a rocket surgeon to recognize love.

if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. Everything else about their checkbook balance and radio songs and messy hair went out the window. You had their full attention. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.

Lecturing the assembled publicists and stylists, my mom says that if any aboriginal peoples or primitive tribe still does not celebrate her acting, that's only because those subjugated native cultures find themselves oppressed by an evil, fundamentalist form of religion. Their budding appreciation of her films is obviously being quashed by some devilish imam or patriarchal ayatollah or witch doctor.

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than with the artwork itself.

Das Einzige, was die Gegenwart genießbar macht, ist die Tatsache, dass die Vergangenheit manchmal eine Folter war.

That if enough people looked at you, you'd never need anybody's attention ever again.

It's an amazing feeling to think that people actually took time out of their lives to learn the words to our music. The adulation and sound of the crowd can be overwhelming, but the idea is to perform like you're performing for one person. Whether you're performing for 3 people or 30,000, you have to be 100 percent there. By

The best gift you can give somebody is a surprise because they never forget.

Life's fucked up. It just is. It's got ups and downs and I say it's worse not appreciating the good things, because then what's the point? It's like the Native Americans used to say, right? Gotta use all of the buffalo. Life is a whole damn animal, and you can't waste any part of it.

Do not assume tomorrow will come. Car crash, heart attack, panda mauling; no promises that you'll see the day after today. What you do get is today. You're here right now, so don't waste it. Today is always the day you have. Tomorrow is always a day away. Something-something

The most undervalued thing in this world is the time, attention, concentration, and patient effort of unhurried human beings.

Katherine Mansfield, clearly speaking personally, had remarked wryly in 1924 that "the true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone—reading between the lines—has become the secret friend of their author,"54

To a degree, literary taste is a subjective matter. One can admire a work of fiction without particularly enjoying it; one can dislike a novel even while appreciating its value.

Art is of absolutely no use to the masses