Quotes About Appreciation

I speak loudest when I listen the most. My greatest gifts are in what I am willing to appreciatively receive from my students.

At the end of his life, which had included financial ruin in the Great Depression, his wife's barbiturate addiction and death by overdose, and then his own lung cancer, Doc said, "It was enough to have been a unicorn." What he meant was that he got to do art. It was magic to him that his hands and mind got to make wonderful things, that he didn't have to be just another goat or horse.

The pain is a reminder that I'm lucky to be alive.

There can't only be bad things in life, otherwise the world would cease," said Tungdil. "Enjoy what you have.

I barely gave my appearance a thought. My animals didn't care about my outer shell, they certainly didn't love me for my appearance. They probably had no sense of beauty whatsoever; I can't imagine that a human being would have seemed beautiful to them.

his "ma guarda che roba, but will you look at this," when he sees the flowers and then his tinkering search for the espresso pot while I'm pulling on shorts and sandals, shouting down, "Why don't we just run up the hill for cappuccini?

The lover says How beautiful you are, now that you love me.

I don't really care what other people think about art, sir. Either you get it or you don't, and it seems pretty stupid waiting on people to get it when you could just as easily enjoy having more museum space to yourself, thank to one less idiot telling me how his four-year-old daughter could do that.

I am content with much. This world never gives me anything, and yet I have everything I want.

God values our dandelion love.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

MBR: In my lifetime I've been called a multitude of names, yet I can't recall seriously learning anything by being told what I am. I'd like to learn from your appreciation and enjoy it, but I would need more information.

However, what lingered in my mind was that one person's dissatisfaction. We tend to notice what's wrong rather than what's right.

recipients of such praise do work harder, but only initially. Once they sense the manipulation behind the appreciation, their productivity drops.

MBR: First, I'd like to know what I said or did that made life more wonderful for you.

MBR: I'm not able to get as much out of your appreciation as I would like.

MBR: Ah, so it's my saying those two things that you appreciate.

Hearing all three pieces of information—what I did, how she felt, and what needs of hers were fulfilled—I could then celebrate the appreciation with her. Had she initially expressed her appreciation in NVC, it might have sounded like this: "Marshall, when you said these two things (showing me her notes), I felt very hopeful and relieved, because I've been searching for a way to make a connection with my son, and these gave me the direction I was looking for.

Hearing all three pieces of information—what I did, how she felt, and what needs of hers were fulfilled—I could then celebrate the appreciation with her.

Saying "thank you" in NVC: "This is what you did, this is what I feel; this is the need of mine that was met.

Conventional compliments often take the form of judgments, however positive, and are sometimes intended to manipulate the behaviour of others. NVC encourages the expression of appreciation solely for celebration.

Perhaps you are surprised that I regard praise and compliments to be life-alienating. Notice, however, that appreciation expressed in this form reveals little of what's going on in the speaker; it establishes the speaker as someone who sits in judgment. I define judgments—both positive and negative—as life-alienating communication.

the more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Gratitude will act as an elixir that will gradually dissolve the hard shell of your ego—your need to possess and control—and transform you into a generous being. The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous—large souled. —Sam Keen, philosopher

parents must constantly remind their children to say, "Thank you." It's one of the last and hardest things to teach naturally rebellious kids.