Quotes About Appreciation

Nor does he understand that when we talk about sale-leasebacks and right-of-way condemnations we are talking in code about the things we like best, the yellow fields and the cottonwoods and the rivers rising and falling and the mountain roads closing when the heavy snow comes in. We miss each other's points, have another drink and regard the fire.

German theologian named Meister Eckhart taught his followers, "If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'Thank you,' that would suffice.

The next time you come to the Cookie Jar, the coffee's on me. You could probably bottle that stuff of yours and sell it for rat poison.

he is the kind of man who breakes biscuits in two and saves the other half for later

This is something different again. A feeling of peace. The feeling you get when a recipe turns out perfectly right, a perfectly risen souffle, a flawless sauce hollandaise. It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her.

It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what you don't care about.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.

Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.

Busy is just a euphemism for being so focused on what you don't have that you never notice what you do. It's a defense mechanism. Because if you stop hustling—if you pause—you start wondering why you ever thought you wanted all those things.

What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?

When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.

If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it.

When you love someone, you don't see parts of him you don't like.

You have everything, she said slowly, as if she were explaining the order of the world to a small child. A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to go home to. She smiled a little. So go.

Well, you have to find that rare someone for whom you're not putting on a show. Someone who shines a spotlight in your direction—not because you're who they need you to be, or who they want you to be…just because you're you.

You give her all your french fries, even when she won't give you back onion rings,' Sophie says. 'And when you say her name it sounds different.' How?' Sophie thinks. 'Like it's covered with blankets.

How many times would I throw this away before I realized it was what I had been looking for all along?

the reason we lose people we care about is so we're more grateful for the ones we still have.

Just because something is different does not mean it should not be respected.

Teachers deserve respect, I explain. Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?

We are so lucky to have our children, even for a little while, but we take them for granted. We make the stupid assumption that as long as we are here, they will be, too, though that's never been part of the contract.