Quotes About Appreciation

Gonzaga was the kind of place you'd not even think about loving until you'd left it for a couple of years.

Never kill anything that's rare," my father had said. "I'm lucky I didn't kill an elephant," I replied. "You'd have had a mighty square meal if you had," he answered. My

the world needs more roses far more than it needs more basketball players.

It was a prayer of gratitude.

I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text.

I don't know you. Then why did you do that for me? Because you are so full of wonder. After what I-- After-- He gestured, his eyes hidden; deep lines ran down his cheeks like claw marks. That seems very precious to me now. How could I not give you such a small thing?

The scientist in me is perfectly comfortable with the animal lover in me, and we are both happy to celebrate together the miracle of our relationship with dogs.

The love between a writer and a reader is never celebrated.

Little things. The thought of losing them makes them unbearably dear ... I only think of the sweetness. Simple things. The quarter moon, the taste of an orange. The smell of the pages of a new book.

Never throw love away, never neglect it. Never assume you'll find better love somewhere else. Take it wherever you're lucky enough to find it, and always try to return it in kind. Don't take so much for granted.

I knew those were precious times, Mama. I knew they were going by too fast, everybody knows that. Where I went wrong is, I thought that would protect me, the fact that I knew. Knew and appreciated, felt for a minute, and now… I don't know, something's going on with time, it's not passing the way it used to, and I hate it. Because you know it all comes down to is good-bye.

I'm going to enjoy what I've got as long as it lasts.

world comes to realize what I felt going up the hill, then there'll be a kind of right economy of living and of using and using up. Do you know what I mean?" Dannie had clenched his fist, but his eyes were bright as if he still laughed at himself. "Did you ever wear out a sweater

Caviar. How very nice of them, Carol said, looking inside a sandwich. Do you like caviar? No. I wish I did. Why? Therese watched Carol take a small bite of the sandwich from which she had removed the top slice of bread, a bit where the most caviar was. Because people always like caviar so much when they do like it, Therese said. Carol smiled, and went on nibbling, slowly. It's an acquired taste. Acquired tastes are always more pleasant--and hard to get rid of.

He loved possessions, not masses of them, but a select few that he did not part with. They gave a man self-respect. Not ostentation but quality, and the love that cherished the quality. Possessions reminded him that he existed, and made him enjoy his existence.

But do we appreciate all this? Ah, no. As Schopenhauer said: "We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack." Yes, the tendency to "seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack" is the greatest tragedy on earth. It has probably caused more misery than all the wars and diseases in history.

we should never forget that all our associates are human beings and hunger for appreciation. It is the legal tender that all souls enjoy.

Remember what Emerson said: "Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him." And

Schopenhauer: "Raramente pensamos en lo que tenemos, sino siempre en lo que nos falta".

But the attention he gave me, his appreciation of what I said, even when I said it badly, was extraordinary. You've no idea what it meant to be listened to like that.

No matter how "important" or successful you are, no one is immune to the pleasure of someone taking interest in you as a person

William James said, "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated." He didn't speak, mind you, of the "wish" or the "desire" or the "longing" to be appreciated. He said the "craving" to be appreciated.

Considero —dijo Schwab— que el mayor bien que poseo es mi capacidad para despertar entusiasmo entre los hombres, y que la forma de desarrollar lo mejor que hay en el hombre es por medio del aprecio y el aliento.

Lo más importante que aprendí entonces fue que, si se tiene agua para beber y algo para comer en la medida suficiente, no hay motivo alguno para quejarse