Quotes About Appreciation

I always wished that I could find someone as beautiful as you, but in the process I forgot that I was special too.

I always thought I should be treated like a star.

Beauty is where you find it.

I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself.

Sometimes the most important things in life are the things we take for granted.

It will not say, 'Isn't X beautiful?' Such demands are murderous to beauty.

Generally speaking I do not hunt blue things down, nor do I pay for them. The blue things I treasure are gifts, or surprises in the landscape.

The trick is never to let down your guard. Never think you are safe. Never take for granted that your children's hearts beat, that they sup milk, that they draw breath, that they walk and speak and smile and argue and play. Never for a moment forget they may be gone, snatched from you, in the blink of an eye, borne away from you like thistledown.

It was not so much that I didn't value my existence but more that I had an insatiable desire to push myself to embrace all that it could offer. Nearly losing my life at the age of eight made me sanguine - perhaps to a fault - about death. I knew it would happen, at some point, and the idea didn't scare me; its proximity felt instead almost familiar. The knowledge that I was lucky to be alive, that it so easily could have been otherwise, skewed my thinking.

It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.

Premodern peoples are said to have no creative ability and anti-modern fundamentalists are said to have a profound ability to be destructive. The destruction is taken as proof that they have no appreciation for human life, including their own.

You know, no one ever appreciates you until you're gone.

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.

Geometry exist everywhere.It is necessary, however, to have eyes to see it, intelligence to understand it , and spirit to wonder at it.The wild Bedouin sees geometric forms but doesn't understand them ; the Sunni understands them but does not admire them; the artist, finally, perceives the perfection of figures, understands beauty, and admires order and harmony.God was the Great Geometer.He geometrized heaven and earth.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

It?s always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.

How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?

The more we appreciate from whence we came biologically, the better placed we will be to build up those cultural and environmental influences that help ameliorate the worst aspects of war.

If you qualify for a reward for the help you've given us, do you want the Lego?' 'The what?' 'The Lego. You know what it is, I take it.' Eleri looked slightly hurt. 'Don't be silly. Of course I do. It's Latin for "I build", isn't it?

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?

Yes, only a fool would have slipped into her deepest reaches and grasped the woman within. The whole of her so fine and glorious, he had reverently fondled each nuance of her mind.

Life was too precious to be so fragile

He had spent the winter existing, not living. Today, for the first time since the autumn, he felt glad to be alive.

Undankbarkeit beginnt mit dem Vergessen. Aus Vergessen folgt Gleichgültigkeit, aus der Gleichgültigkeit Unzufriedenheit, aus der Unzufriedenheit Verzweiflung, aus der Verzweiflung der Fluch.