Quotes About Appreciation

I never cast a flower away, A gift of one who car'd for me; A flower--a faded flower, But it was done reluctantly.

We'd get in the car and i'd look over at John and say 'Christ. Look at you. You're a bloody phenomenon!' and just laugh because it was only him.

What I know for sure is that every sunrise is like a new page, a chance to right ourselves and receive each day in all its glory. Each day is a wonder.

there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.

Everybody Out There....Dont take ANYBODY for granted.Cause you never know when you might lose them,and you may never get the chance to tell them how you really feel

Look, I want to love this world as though it's the last chance I'm ever going to get to be alive and know it.

Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing.

When you get a chance to step back, you notice all these great things you've done and all these great people that you've worked with.

It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.

We cherish the chance to say thank you in person to Cpl. Frank Buckles.

Anyone too busy to say thank you will get fewer and fewer chances to say it.

As Trungpa Rinpoche put it, "Everybody loves something, even if it's only tortillas." Bodhichitta

it's good to express our gratitude to others. It's helpful to express our appreciation of others. But if we do that with the motivation of wanting them to like us, we can remember this slogan. We can thank others, but we should give up all hope of getting thanked in return. Simply keep the door open without expectations.

Looking for alternatives is the only thing that keeps us from realizing that we're already in a sacred world. Looking for alternatives—better sights than we see, better sounds than we hear, a better mind than we have—keeps us from realizing that we could stand with pride in the middle of our life and realize it's a sacred mandala.

One piece of advice that Don Juan gave to Carlos Casteneda was to do everything as if it were the only thing in the world that mattered, while all the time knowing that it doesn't matter at all. That attitude leads to more appreciation and less burnout, because we do the job wholeheartedly and we care.

Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life, it might be the only strawberry we'll ever eat. We could get depressed about it, or we could finally appreciate it and delight in the preciousness of every single moment of our life.

we already have exactly what we need, that what we have already is good.

This is the path we take in cultivating joy: learning not to armor our basic goodness, learning to appreciate what we have.

I can admire, but I no longer covet. Books of course are another matter; books are not acquisitions, they are necessities.

Any book represents effort, struggle, work--I know, I write them myself--every book deserves attention, even if that ends with dismissal.

Olharam-se. Maravilharam-se. E o amor era a capacidade de se maravilharem a cada instante.

Não se deve morder a mão que nos dá a comida.

A amizade é assim, tem sempre dois lados e devemos realçar o melhor.

What had once seemed shallow and tedious now loomed in memory like paradise.