Quotes About Appreciation

Belinda. "He is really proud of them.'' "Fresh strawberry shortcake it will be, then.

Treasure the moments, her heart whispered. If you don't learn to treasure the moments, you'll never be able to treasure the memories.

On the off-chance you won't live forever, maybe you should try being happy now.

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. —Marcel Proust

reactive gratitude—an unconscious response that allows us to find redeeming value in the difficult event itself.

It's one thing to think that your job has a purpose, and it's another to meet a specific person who cares, appreciates, and values what you do," Grant told me. "The call center people got a new sense of their worth—not only on the job but as individuals.

The more hardship people have suffered, in my experience, the easier it is for them to be grateful for the little things—which, of course, are the things that, added up, comprise our whole

Some gifts of friendship cannot be earned. They exist, beyond price, and we cannot hope to match up to them.

Is my love so small that I cannot let him discover anew what happiness life has to offer?

Be a lover of the world, it is the only way to survive in it.

You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.

Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of the setting sun or the boom and swish of the incoming tide, we should reserve as much praise for ourselves as for the author. After all, the reader is doing all the work - the writer might have died long ago.

Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.

The verses of Byron, Keats or Poe are real whether they are in bootleg form or not. You can still read them for the same effect.

Rabbits never drove fast. They like to enjoy the view, didn't much care for speed and besides, it was wasteful of fuel. If you want to get somewhere a long way away, just leave early. Days, if that's required. Or, as Samuel C. Rabbit had it: 'nhffnfhfiifhfnnffhrhrfhrf' or 'to travel joyously is better than to arrive.

Thursday, you mean everything to me. Not just because you're cute, smart, funny and have a devastatingly good figure and boobs to die for, but that you do right for right's sake - it's what you are and what you do. Even if I never get my magnum opus published, I will still die secure in the knowledge that my time on this planet was well-spent - giving support, love and security to someone who actually makes a difference .

a standing ovation from five-year-olds is not to be sniffed at.

Much that we had appreciated about one another had been left unsaid. In humor, in life and in love, we had understood.

You're talking about gold and silver, cash and securities. I'm talking about the sheer beauty of the land, the value of unpolluted parkland made wild and staying wild forever.

People may claim to hate puns, but most true word lovers have groaned to like them.

Rosania says. "To keep them to myself would be unimaginable. Wine is meant to be shared." It's a refreshing attitude, particularly if you are on the receiving end of it. The night before the auction I personally consumed, by my best estimate, over $20,000 worth of his wine—including the 1945 Mouton and the 1947 Cheval Blanc—and I was one of fourteen drinkers.

He wondered if he would ever get to the point where he would take such concern on his behalf for granted. He doubted it. When you had spent most of your life looking for something, you weren't likely to treat it casually when you finally stumbled into it.

The man's got more money than God, and he sends you a bag of coffee?

Art does not die because there is no more art; it dies because there is too much.