Quotes About Appreciation

a nap "after dinner was silver — before dinner, golden.")

Cuánta gente, colmada de todo, se queja de continuo, lo encuentra todo mal y no acierta a gozar nunca de nada! Debemos mirar siempre hacia los que tienen menos que nosotros y contentarnos, y gozar de lo que poseemos sin alimentar nuestro espíritu de quimeras

Value time!!! It's only when we lack time for ourselves that we start valuing it.

I get such lovely gifts from fans... amazing pictures, handmade jewellery. I'm very lucky!

Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.

Going nowhere … isn't about turning your back on the world; it's about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.

S]ongs must be measured by their utility. Any jaunty little tune that can get you from one point to another as you drive, or get you through the dishes, or that can illuminate or dignify your courting, I always appreciate. -interview, 1995

There is a religious hallelujah, but there are many other ones[....] When one looks at the world, there's only one thing to say, and it's hallelujah. That's the way it is.

For, the wise G. K. Chesterton observed, "We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.

A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP

Quantum mechanics can be appreciated, to some degree, on a purely qualitative level. But mathematics is what brings its beauty into sharp focus. We have tried to make this amazing body of work fully accessible to mathematically literate nonphysicists.

One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.

My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how I was- I was a little spoiled brat.

Una grande opera d'arte (così come un grande avvenimento) vive attraverso un'infinita varietà di punti di vista e a diversi e mutevoli livelli di comprensione: nel tempo, nello spazio, da un individuo ad un altro, nel mutare delle condizioni in cui lo stesso individuo vi si accosta. E può vivere anche, per così dire, nell'aria, senza che direttamente la si conosca.

He had needed someone to see him, to understand; to astonish him, like the concert.

But why talk in superlatives, as if something that is beautiful could be surpassed?

That which you are looking for, you're living with.

His spirits were too elastic to know the meaning of depression, and the setback had intriguing angles to it which he was broad-minded enough to appreciate as an artist.

I wanted to thank you. If it wasn't for you, I'd never have known I had a right to be me.

After all, moms were appreciated only on Mother's Day. That's why they invented it. So they could treat you like a household appliance the rest of the year.

Don't ever let one moment take anything away from another.

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under flesh.

I said to my wife just the other day, I was actually taking some time to consider all the blessings in my life and that things are really good. I said, you would have to be a real churl to complain about the life I'm living right now. Everything's going great. I'm having a good time.

You're all so obsessed with other worlds, you're so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you've never bothered to figure out what's going on here!