Quotes About Appreciation

Have you ever been on a roller coaster, Togawa-kun? You're only riding on it for a few minutes, right? If you spent the entire ride thinking "only so many seconds left... until this ride is over..." then what was the point of riding it in the first place? Nobody knows why we're alive. We don't have the time to bother.

Women, our superiors! Yes, my brothers: accept this strange judgement from the mouth of one who has known many of them. They

Oh, lady be goodTo me.

The way you wear your hat, The way you sip your tea, The mem'ry of all that -- No, no! They can't take that away from me!

S wonderful! 'S marvelous! That you should care for me!

We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

I can only thank God for the blessings in my life and enjoy them today. Because no one is promised tomorrow.

I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning—raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.

I was so determined to experience everything and everyone I could that I don't think I ever stopped to truly appreciate any of it. Then, somewhere along the way, I realized it's important to have a good reason to experience the things in my life. Not just because they're there.

The Buddhists say that you have to think about your own death every single day. It makes you more humble to know this day is all there is, so be joyful and be grateful, and enjoy it.

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.

A hair on the head is worth two on the brush.

The city isn't good and the city isn't happy and the city is sick," he says--"but you are good and I thank you for that.

I could not be greedy, about money, I could not be greedy about miles or rides, and I could not be greedy about closeness with people; all things come in their own time, and are not mine to keep or covet - just to enjoy and learn from.

Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks — I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.

Got no checkbooks, got no banks, Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.

I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.

A taste of luxury is part of the education of any intelligent human being. It teaches him how unnecessary it is.

If you ask for too much, you lose even that which you have.

The greatest tribute one can give to a writer is that it is simply enough to read him.

Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don't expect trees to change, you love them as they are.

Those mitigating circumstances could just as well be mentioned if the thinker thought it worth the trouble. From the standpoint of human relations it is worth vastly more than the trouble it takes. The little sympathy or appreciation, coming first, puts the thinkers in the same camp with the feeling types, and the feeling types' desire to stay in the same camp will keep them agreeing with the thinkers as far as possible.