Quotes About Appreciation

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

We Americans are so good at critiquing our own nation, so determined to make it better, that sometimes we neglect to acknowledge all that is wonderful about it. Let us not commit the sin of ingratitude for so many blessings.

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

When a tree's leaves wave slightly or when you hear consistent creaking and groaning of limbs and there is no wind, chances are you are being laughed at by a tree. They may find your clothes ridiculous. Your hiking skills clumsy. Or your yodeling off-key. It is not cruel or teasing laughter. They are simply amused.

Heavenly Father, for the blessings of this food and these friends and our families, we thank you. In Jesus's name, amen.

Sure this is hard work, but it's good work because it's a part of what connects us to this land, Buck. This beautiful, tender land.

Heavenly Father, for the blessings of this food and these friends and our families, we thank you. In Jesus's name, amen.

He was thinking about what his father had said, how the quiet of the morning was something he had almost entirely to himself, something he would come to appreciate. It was true. On the streets of Aurora in that early hour, he was almost always alone. Sometimes lights were on in a room, usually a kitchen, or on rare occasions, a car might drift past, but he and Jackson owned the sidewalks and the morning was his.

day, and we thank you for life and for all things. You are our mother. You feed us, you clothe us, you shelter us, and you comfort us. For this we thank you and honor you.

The miracle is this: that you will rise in the morning and be able to see again the startling beauty of the day. "Jesus

He reached down and pulled something from the ground, then held it out in his hand so that we could see. "A toadstool?" I said. He shook his head. "A morel, tastiest mushroom there is. Been a long while since I went hunting morels. Here," he said to me. "Take this and go see if you can find any more along the river.

It's as if your parents have to die before you really understand who they are.

People only will make an effort to save something they care about, and to care about it, they have to know about it.

I admit--no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed-

one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed—but after all, we were children.

Who is rich? As the scholar Ben Zoma once said, 'He who is content with his lot.

How little we really know about the life all around us. Would we be so cavalier and ruthless with it if we understood it better?

I look at words as if they were entities, sacred beings. There are words to which I tip my hat when I see them sitting on a page.

Start admiring the vastness of the forest and a tree will surely fall on you, bashing your skull for the crime of perspective.

door. She was not a writer herself, but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes,

I believe we are most alive when we are being thought about by others who love us.