Quotes About Appreciation

If you could know —if you could always know —when the lasts in life are coming, you'd handle them differently. You'd savor. You'd stop. You'd let nothing else invade the moment.

O, to take what we love inside, to carry within us an orchard, to eat not only the skin, but the shade, not only the sugar, but the days, to hold the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into the round jubilance of peach. There are days we live as if death were nowhere in the background; from joy to joy to joy, from wing to wing, from blossom to blossom to impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.

On the way out, I hug Mum, holding her close. 'Thank you,' I whisper. 'For dinner - and for everything.' Mum smiles and strokes my cheek. 'There's nothing to thank me for.

Only the people who get you, deserve you.

Don't take the people you love for granted. Don't ever be scared to love someone with your whole heart. Be transparent.

I never thought much about flowers until I made the close acquaintance of a man who knew all about them. You would have thought that the butterflies and flowers were friends of his. 'See how richly they are clad,' he said. 'Even King Solomon did not have such raiment.

So much the better. The higher the price you have to pay, the more you will cherish it.

they pick flowers, but they do not sweep the sky!

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

You are a perfect woman, a magical blend of beauty, intelligence, and spirit. Without you, my life is nothing.

He looked from His heavens and saw it was good, the toes and the crows all looked like they should. The bunny was quick, the finch bright as a daisy, the owl flew at night, and the tortoise was lazy.

Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and then demand as a right. Hold them up for all the market will bear.

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

Stupid women, and all are stupid, think the first winning of the man the final victory. Then they settle down and grow fat, and stale, and dead, and heartbroken. Alas, they are so stupid. But you, little infant-woman with your first victory, you must make your love-life an unending chain of victories. Each day you must win your man again. And when you have won the last victory, when you can find no more to win, then ends love. Finis is written, and your man wanders in strange gardens.

Ah! vainest of all things Is the gratitude of kings.

Be what it may, I will always esteem and adore the divine genius of this Gentleman, taking from him what I understand with humility and admiring with veneration what I am unable to understand.

Understand one single day fully, so you can love every night.

I love not man the less, but nature more

Till taught by pain, Men really know not what good water's worth.

If appreciation is important to you in your relationship with your manager, realize that it is equally important to the people you manage.

I had not expected the gentle, tentative surge of gratitude I began to feel...for St. Paul's School, the spring, and the early morning. I needed the morning light and the warbling birds. I needed to find a way to live in this place for a moment and get the good of it. I had tried to hold myself apart, and the aloneness proved more terrible than what I had tried to escape.

No music book has ever succeeded in miraculously replacing the listening experience.

Nunca dejes de respetar a alguien que tiene tiempo para aburrirse. De ahí salen los sabios.