Quotes About Appreciation

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

Does your architect know what the word mensch means?" "Yes, I once explained that word to him." "Please tell him again for me that he's a mensch." "I'll

I always remind myself of all the things I should note if I am to be a good person, one sound and balanced. One night . . . I reminded myself that 22 species of flowers were blooming in my backyard. . . . that fact helped a great deal.

You'll never understand the true sense of freedom – until you lose it.

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me. [Charlie Chaplin to Albert Einstein]

Talented people want recognition and respect for their skills and their achievements even more than they want money. They need and appreciate acceptance and respect.

A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?

A posthumously, everyone loves us. (A titre posthume, - Tout le monde nous aime)

Even artificial flowers have a vase. Life is Beautiful. (Même les fleurs artificielles Ont un vase. La vie est belle.)

There is always something for which to be thankful.

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

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.

He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

We were equals afterwards, as we had been before; but, afterwards at quiet times when I sat looking at Joe and thinking about him, I had a new sensation of feeling conscious that I was looking up to Joe in my heart.

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

I found every breath of air, and every scent, and every flower and leaf and blade of grass and every passing cloud, and everything in nature, more beautiful and wonderful to me than I had ever found it yet. This was my first gain from my illness. How little I had lost, when the wide world was so full of delight for me.

I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music.

Mr. Dick, give me your hand, for your common sense is invaluable.