Quotes About Appreciation

You do realize it's all right to have nice things sometimes, right?

these were authentically coarse-woven curtains, woven by people who didn't know any other way of making curtains, who didn't even know that their way was special, and whose way was therefore not discounted and emptied of meaning in advance. This made him very happy. It was as if he'd been looking for these curtains forever, as if he'd been waiting his whole life to wake up one morning in a room in which those coarse-woven, stem-green curtains hung over the windows.

Quentin's scales, he couldn't help but notice in passing, were the shiny metallic blue of a bitchin' muscle car.

Egli la guardava, come l'uomo guarda il fiore da lui strappato e appassito, in cui riconosce con difficoltà la bellezza per la quale l'ha strappato e rovinato.

Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.

Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive.

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

"If you think we're waxworks," he said, "you ought to pay, you know. Waxworks weren't made to be looked at for nothing. Nohow!"

At first blush this thought might seem depressing, but the process of transformation—aging and its accomplishments—can be very positive, with new possibilities, fresh beginnings, a wealth of appreciation, and a depth of gratitude that profoundly affects how our lives proceed.

Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays 'em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera--or war or fiction.

For anyone who doesn't have that connection with Mozart, I urge those people to go and find some of his music, because it can quite genuinely make you just glad to be alive.

I would urge everyone to start looking at the world in a different way. Spend some time looking at everyday objects, at their design, their shape, their individual characteristics. Think ahead and imagine their significance.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

I think one of the bigger issues with modern-day people is that we don't give enough credit to people from history as being real. We almost treat them as these rarified beings that didn't exist the way that we do with emotions and urges and drives.

Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.

I have long maintained that each of us has three chances a day to be happy: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

That's how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.

At times, we take freedom for granted. We really don't know how to cherish the freedom we have until it's taken from us.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience who will want to see it. But in terms of people even understanding in common usage, some of the words we use to describe these movies, I don't know how long that's going to last.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can get from it on this new day which has been granted you.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.