Quotes About Appreciation

Almost any negative thought pattern can be broken with thoughts of gratitude. When you "think thanks," you dial into what you have instead of what you lack. The effect is immediate—you feel positive.

You can't be hateful when you are grateful!" She's

You can't be negative when you're in giving-thanks mode. You can't be jealous of others when you are filled with a sense of personal abundance. Gratitude will improve your attitude and lift the altitude at which you fly in life.

Gratitude is a muscle, not a feeling,

Identify the source for all the opportunities, experiences, and relationships you appreciate. Your job, the life-changing trip you took last year, your home, your car—all of these came from a source who cares about you and is thoughtful toward you. The immediate source could be a person or a group of people, but ultimately the source of all these good things is God.

never let our expectations define our level of thankfulness.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

I know that my grandfather is 92 years old. And he has seen this country evolve in amazing ways. He looks at South Carolina and he says, wow, what an amazing state that we have the blessing to live within because of the evolution.

Books seem a little old-fashioned, but hey, I can do old-fashioned if it's good.

You think beauty's in some classroom or some textbook, and it's not. That's not what it's about. This right here. This is beautiful. All of this. That's all you need.

First, sure, I drink in the mornings sometimes, but not because I need to. It's just a good change of pace. I'm celebrating a new day, and if you can't do that, then you might as well be laid out with your arms across your chest studying the pattern on your coffin lid.

It's funny, but you never really think much about breathing. Until it's all you ever think about.

I care to live only to entice people to look at nature's loveliness," Muir said

Here in the corner attic of America, two hours' drive from a rain forest, a desert, a foreign country, an empty island, a hidden fjord, a raging river, a glacier, and a volcano is a place where the inhabitants sense they can do no better, nor do they want to.

I'm often asked how I define "success." It's an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of two things - achievement and appreciation. One isn't enough: Achievement without appreciation makes you ambitious but miserable. Appreciation without achievement makes you unambitious but happy.

The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.

But I don't just think gratitude. I let gratitude fill my soul, because when you're grateful, we all know there's no anger. It's impossible to be angry and grateful simultaneously. When you're grateful, there is no fear. You can't be fearful and grateful simultaneously.

If you don't appreciate what you have now, you'll never appreciate what you get later.

La robustez es preocuparse más por los pocos que valoran tu trabajo que por la multitud que lo odia (artistas); la fragilidad es preocuparse más por los pocos que odian tu trabajo que por la multitud que lo valora (políticos)». Opta por la robustez.

que vale la pena detenerse.

When I'm old, how much would I be willing to pay to travel back in time and relive the moment that I'm experiencing right now?

Take time to stop and smell the roses, or—in this case—to count the pea pods.

1—It doesn't matter how many people don't get it. What matters is how many people do.

Recuerda que los beneficios sólo te beneficiarán en la medida en que puedas disfrutar de ellos.