Quotes About Appreciation

If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food.

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.

As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.

We forget that we all take life to live and that eating is a sacrament.

If I had Only ... Forgotten future greatness and looked at the green things and the buildings and reached out to those around me and smelled the air and ignored the forms and the self-styled obligations and heard the rain on the roof and put my arms around my wife ... and it's not too late

I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.

Ik heb niets meer te vragen aan de goden, mijn wensen zijn vervuld, het is goed. Meer dan goed. Het is genoeg.

Cada prazer da vida se funda no retorno regular das coisas externas. A alternância do dia e da noite, das estações, das flores e dos frutos, e cada coisa que nos vem ao encontro periodicamente, porque nós podemos e devemos apreciá-las, estes são os verdadeiros estímulos da vida terrena. Quanto mais abertos estamos a tais fruições, tanto mais nos sentimos felizes' Goethe

La bellezza delle cose esiste nella mente di chi le osserva

You're a good man, sister

And though he liked drawing trees he liked most of all to be with trees. He would climb them, lean against them, even talk to them. It saddened him to discover the not everyone shared his feelings towards them.

I am a very 'unvoracious' reader, and since I can seldom bring myself to read a work twice I think of the many things that I read – too soon! Nothing, not even a (possible) deeper appreciation, for me replaces the bloom on a book, the freshness of the unread. Still what we read and when goes, like the people we meet, by 'fate.' Letter 189 From a letter to Mrs M. Wilson

There is a bit of a movement as far as younger people in country music. That is cool because people are saying things like, 'I didn't listen to country music until so-and-so came along.' And I'm like, 'Yeah! Now you know why I love it.'

details.' 'Thank you, sir.

My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it

If you can't find a Bowmore to fall in love with, you may have to consider very seriously the possibility that you're wasting your money drinking whisky at all.

But games aren't magic, and the most special thing about them isn't unique to them anyway—their artificial, deliberately limited structures teach us how to appreciate everything else that has a specific, limited structure. Which is just to say, anything whatsoever. Play isn't our goal, but a tool to discover and appreciate the structures of all the malls and fishbowls we encounter. Once

The world came into existence and evolved over billions of years. If conditions hadn't been right for life to occur, we simply wouldn't exist. Our world is a reflection of who we are and how we evolved. The mistake is finding ourselves alive on Earth and assuming we were meant to be here, instead of merely appreciating the fact that we are. We can appreciate our reality without assuming our necessity. T

Now that he knew that he was, that he existed to celebrate his existence, he looked with delight and fascination at every all-night hot-food stall, every neon welcome to a caste bar or club, every vagrant waft of steam from the pneumatique ventilators, every puddle of yellow streetlight, every rain-slick cobble, because in the continued existence of those other things he saw his own being reflected.

When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.

When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

He wondered what percentage of the world's art was actually kept in bank vaults and the like. Like unread books and unplayed music, did it matter that art went unseen?

I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.