Quotes About Appreciation

We all have an innate, unquenchable desire to know we are valued, to know we matter. Yet affirming this in each other is among the most challenging things to do in our day and age.

But the very instant we break the law, we shall get into endless trouble. The law is this: Always make the other person feel important. John Dewey, as we have already noted, said that the desire to be important is the deepest urge in human nature; and William James said: "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

when praise is specific, it comes across as sincere—not something the other person may be saying just to make one feel good.

Begin with praise and honest appreciation.

Si hay un secreto del éxito —dijo Henry Ford— reside en la capacidad para apreciar el punto de vista del prójimo y ver las cosas desde ese punto de vista así como del propio.

Her bottom is so beautiful that once as she crossed the room to the cooler I felt my eyes smart with tears of gratitude.

I came to myself, saw myself as itself and the world for what it is, and began to love life. Hm, better stop the bleeding in that case. After all, why not live? Bad as things are still when all is said and done, one can sit on a doorstep in the winter sunlight and watch sparrows kick leaves.

because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

Being in your mid-thirties brought benefits, I reminded myself. You began to appreciate tidiness, smallness, things in their place. This is the shape your life has taken, I said. Be existential. Go to sleep.

my sympathy. And my gratitude." "Your gratitude? For what?" "For sharing that information with me. I know you are a private person, Mr. Birdsey. Thank you for trusting me.

It's a free country," I said. "Granny babes." That night up in my room I pulled Ma's flying leg out from behind the dresser and saw, for the first time, that it was beautiful. I hung it above my bed.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

The sum of all known value and respect, I add up in you, whoever you are.

I have perceiv'd that to be with those I like is enough, To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough, To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough, To pass among them, or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment—what is this, then? I do not ask any more delight—I swim in it, as in a sea.

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

America doesn't know today how proud she ought to be of her Ingersoll .

If you see a good deal remarkable in me I see just as much remarkable in you.

henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am, And sing and laugh and deny nothing.

Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my words refuse to glisten and rustle for you.

And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am, And sing and laugh and deny nothing.

After all, the great lesson is that no special natural sights---not Alps, Niagara, Yosemite or anything else---is more grand or more beautiful than the ordinary sunrise and sunset, earth and sky, the common trees and grass.

morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.