Quotes About Appreciation

Someone asked me the other day if I had my life to live over would I change anything. My answer was no, but then I thought about it and changed my mind... I would have eaten less cottage cheese and more ice cream.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

My debt to you is countless caressing kisses.

I love old poems, ladies who lived in past times. Life was maybe not easier, but people took time to idle sometime, and mostly they took time admiring a sunrise, the flowers opening their hearts, etc.

The post-office has a great charm at one period of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

I used to trouble about what life was for — now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Life: It is about the gift not the package it comes in.

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize... a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of [your child]...

...life is a gift to be accepted and returned. Life is a celebration, it is a learning, it is a gift.

Let the credit card companies market as they will, the only thing that's priceless is Now.

Believe me then, my friend, that that is a miserable arithmetic which would estimate friendship at nothing, or at less than nothing.

I love to get letters But the sweetest, by heck, Are the ones that begin with: "Inclosed please find check."

And this prime hour of fragrance is the hour so many miss upon beds of sloth, never half knowing what a beautiful, marvellous world is around them. Not all the long hours of day can possibly bring back again the charm and blessedness of this, either to the body or to the soul.

Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.

Nature befriends those who befriend her.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it...

Of course I look at the glass half full. The only time I would look at it half empty is when I think about how good the first half tasted.

A poet looks at the world somewhat as a man looks at a woman.

I eat bad poetry like a goat — and eat good poetry like a gourmand.

Prayer is for the grateful and for the grateful-to-be.

Instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy and complaining about the shadow over my feet, I'd have cherished every minute of it and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was to be my only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

In retirement, every day is Boss Day and every day is Employee Appreciation Day.

Be thankful for the little things, that always come your way, For little things to wondrous size, perchance may grow some day. Don't cast aside red roses, just because of one sharp thorn, Remember it's the darkest night, that brings the brightest dawn.