Quotes About Appreciation

Not to understand a treasure's worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is.

The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.

The good we never miss we rarely prize

Loveliest of lovely things are they, On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.

There are times in the lives of most of us when we would have given all the world to be as we were but yesterday, though that yesterday had passed over us unappreciated and unenjoyed.

Once you break into the godlike unity of the appreciator you find a microcosm of which the theatre is the macrocosm; the mind is complex and ill-connected like an audience, and it is as surprising in the one case as the other that a sort of unity can be produced by a play.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

Being adjacent to that much beauty—more than adjacent; immersed in, pierced by it—was the point. The physical risks were footnotes.

If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.

Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it...

Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience.

Of course there is enough to stir our wonder anywhere; there's enough to love, anywhere, if one is strong enough, if one is diligent enough, if one is perceptive, patient, kind enough -- whatever it takes.

Works of art are meant to be lived with and loved, and if we try to understand them, we should try to understand them as we try to understand anyone—in order to know them better, not in order to know something else.

We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

He who has a contempt for poetry cannot have much respect for himself or for anything else.

A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.