Quotes About Appreciation

We tend to overvalue the things we can measure and undervalue the things we cannot.

I enjoy being seen and recognized. So many people go through life without being seen or recognized at all, not even by their own families. So I know what a gift it is.

All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people to exceed what they had just accomplished; it was simply feeling so complete.

How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.

Only the chicken-lover will understand me. He will give me a kindly look, maybe mildly desirous. His eyes will tell me: You might look a lot better with some reddish-brown feathers.

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

You know what I love... everything.

JUST THINK OF THIS AS MY LITTLE GIFT TO YOU, says Owen Meany

Jack realized that when you're happy – especially when it's the first time in your life – you think of things that would never have occurred to you when you were unhappy.

She say to tell you you was the nicest, Muddy told the boy. She say to tell your dad he a hero, and that you was the nicest.

In other parts of the world, they have double-bed sheets," wrote Wilbur Larch in A Brief History of St. Cloud's. "Here in St. Cloud's we do without—we just do without.

Come amiamo amar le cose per conto di altri! Come amiamo che altri amino le cose tramite i nostri occhi

Writers simply have to accept readers who prefer other writers.

Jack had not only heard Billy Crystal's joke; he was genuinely impressed by Billy's imitation of Jack-as-Melody. "Christ," he said.

John Irving (Author)

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; It will never Pass into nothingness.

I must confess, that (since I am on the subject) I love you the more in that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel.

The more I have known the more have I lov'd.

How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world impress a sense of its natural beauties on us … I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy.

If only I had truly taken advantage of the situation, seized and held and prized the multitudes of advantages the summer offered me; if only I had.

uello che voglio dire è che io amo l'inverno, e quando ami qualcosa, ti ama indietro in qualsiasi modo debba amare.

I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we've passed the audition.