Quotes About Appreciation

You only need the light when it is burning low Only miss the sun when it starts to snow.

É sempre bom lembrar que um copo vazio está cheio de ar.

Houve um tempo em que, se tivesse de optar entre duas cegueiras, escolheria ser cego ao esplendor do mar, às montanhas, ao pôr-do-sol do Rio de Janeiro, para ter olhos de ler o que há de belo, em letras negras sobre fundo branco.

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.

My own love of books begins long before I start to read them. First of all, I am an incurable book-sniffer; when I open a new book I at once savour its scent, and I have had some odd looks from bookshop assistants in consequence...

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

There's nothing wrong with having a tree for a friend.

I feel so grateful to the man who invented the "Traveller's" typewriter...

A great deal has been written and said and sung in praise of green trees. And yet there are comparatively few green trees that are good to eat. Asparagus is probably the best of them, though celery is by no means to be despised.

Being without food, fearful for one's life, the bombings — all made me so appreciative of safety, of liberty.

Women are beautiful, and yummy.

This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.

Gratitude is the best attitude.

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in the world, since the payment is pure love.

On Mother's Day I have written a poem for you. In the interest of poetic economy and truth, I have succeeded in concentrating my deepest feelings and beliefs into two perfectly crafted lines: You're my mother, I would have no other!

They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me, a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

With innovation and technology, seems we have forgotten to cherish the true beauty the world has to offer.

I want to thank and pay tribute to all of our volunteers — those dedicated people who believe in all work and no pay.

Volunteers are paid in six figures — S-M-I-L-E-S.

Two of the most pleasant words in the English language are "please" and "thank you."

I want to live each day for itself like a string of colored beads, and not kill the present by cutting it up in cruel little snippets to fit some desperate architectural draft for a taj mahal in the future.

If a butterfly lands on your shoulder, don't wait until later to enjoy it.

Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is the special occasion.