Quotes About Appreciation

Denying God is the greatest sign of ungratefulness.

I adore correspondence. When a letter arrives from a friend it is like getting a small present.

There's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count . . . You realize that time is the most precious thing. Because time is life. It's the only thing you can never get back.

And suddenly you recall all the senseless time-wasting things you've done . . . the wasted minutes you'll never recover. And you realize that time is the most precious thing. Because time is life. It's the only thing you can never get

the first part was awesome the second part were gross but still amazing to me

But I don't want to read faster or older or any way else that might make the story disappear too quickly from where it's settling inside my brain, slowly becoming a part of me. A story I will remember long after I've read it for the second, third, tenth, hundredth time.

That's good. Always take the time. You really never know when you're not going to have it anymore.

But once, a cardinal alighted on the kitchen windowsill and he found himself squinting long after it had flown away again, trying hard to hold on to its beauty.

Thank you," she murmured a few minutes after their breathing had normalized. "For what?" he laughed, tilting his chin to his chest so he could see her face as he pushed back the half ton of hair that had obscured it. "For answering my question.

In the future he would remember to be kinder to her clothing... provided that she didn't look so damn good in them.

gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Bollinger Champagne, one of my favorites.

Je suis très heureux que tu sois là, dis-je avec le sentiment que mes mots n'étaient pas à la hauteur.

I don't photograph anything I don't like. I do the flowers, I don't do the weeds.

But there was no use pretending: I was not the sort of person who counted blessings; I was the sort of person for whom there could never be enough blessings.

She always said that she respected and liked us all equally, and I have to say that that attitude didn't go down well with me, accustomed as I was to being singled out and held up in a special way.

Something I had always known - the way I knew my skin was the color brown of a nut rubbed repeatedly with a soft cloth, or the way I knew my own name - something I took completely for granted, "the sun is shining, the air is warm," was not so.

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

We live and breathe, aware, or unaware this is what we do. The breath that we breathe in and out is our one source of life. To live and function as a human being. Breathing to live, and living to breathe is our sole lifeline until our last breath. We should take nothing for granted. And appreciate every breath we breathe in and out to live on Mother Earth."

and had I the names of my benefactors, I could most freely record them in letters of gold,

and gentle happy and peaceful, tasting the mean goodness of their living like the last of their suppers in their mouths.

he was warmed by the simplicity with which she got up for him, thoroughly awake.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

It is only when we see just how wonderful and amazing man is that we can appreciate the magnitude of the Fall and the greatness of redemption.