Quotes About Appreciation

Waking is hard, and waking is glorious. We watch as you stir, then as you stumble out of your beds. We know that gratitude is the last thing on your mind. But you should be grateful.

He says presents aren't important, but I think they are __ not because of how much they cost, but for the opportunity they provide to say I understand you.

Why can't I take the music of the moment and see how long it can last?

He can barely stand it when he wastes his own time; for someone else to waste it is unconscionable.

His gratitude is a rare thing—it is much more likely for a boy to feel thankful for the Diet Dr Pepper than he is to feel thankful for being healthy and alive, for being able to walk to his boyfriend's house at age fifteen without any doubt that this is the right thing to do.

And the way he looks at me-it's like he's finally realized how real I am, how here I am. What I've just said isn't worth that. Which means I must be worth that.

But I don't know when that day will arrive, and it would be too easy to forget to marvel at the beauty in this moment. In every moment.

The best thing to do is to treat all your days well.

Él dice que los regalos no son importantes, pero yo pienso que sí lo son; no por cuánto cuesten, sino por la oportunidad que nos dan de decir te entiendo.

Pasamos tantos minutos, horas y días sin valorar la vida, sin sentirla demasiado, dejando que transcurra. Pero luego hay momentos como este en que la vivacidad de la vida es cristalina, palpable, innegable. Es la boya final a la que aferrarse cuando uno se está ahogando. Es la salvación.

David Foster Wallace: Because I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them then.

David Foster Wallace: There's so much beauty and profundity in all kinds of shitty pop culture all around us.

We all have at least two sides. The world we live in is a world of opposites. And the trick is to reconcile those opposing things. I've always liked both sides. In order to appreciate one, you have to know the other. The more darkness you can gather up, the more light you can see too.

Look at Van Gogh - The guy could not sell one painting and now nobody can afford them

I don't necessarily love rotting bodies, but there's a texture to a rotting body that is un-believable. Have you ever seen a little rotted animal? I love looking at those things, just as much as I like to look at a close-up of some tree bark, or a small bug, or a cup of coffee, or a piece of pie. You get in close and the textures are wonderful.

The audience can endorse the triviality of modern art, but they can't like it.

Si es arte no es para todos, y si es para todos no es arte.

it's not necessarily helpful to talk about poetry as if it were a device to be assembled or a religious experience to be undergone. Rather, it would be useful to talk about poetry as if it were, for example, Belgium

I've become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking at the magnificent Brueghel, take a picture of it, reducing it from art to proof. It's not Look what Brueghel did, painted this masterpiece but Look what I did, went to Rotterdam and stood in front of a Brueghel painting!

When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had nothing to talk about. She forgot the definition of jazz as well and came to think of it as every beautiful thing she had ever failed to appreciate: the taste of warm rain; the smell of a baby; the din of a swollen river, rushing past her tree and onward to infinity.

Nobody pours stuffing like you do, my friend.

My mother was, for the most part, delighted with my brother and regarded him with the bemused curiosity of a brood hen discovering she has hatched a completely different species. 'I think it was very nice of Paul to give me this vase,' she once said, arranging a bouquet of wildflowers into the skull-shaped bong my brother had left on the kitchen table. 'It's nontraditional, but that's the Rooster's way. He's a free spirit, and we're lucky to have him.

It's not lost on me that I'm so busy recording life, I don't have time to really live it. I've become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking at the magnificent Brueghel, take a picture of it, reducing it from art to proof. It's not "Look what Brueghel did, painted this masterpiece" but "Look what I did, went to Rotterdam and stood in front of a Brueghel painting!

Following a brief period of hard-won independence she came to appreciate the fact that people aren't foolish as much as they are kind.