Quotes About Appreciation

Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.

Touch everything lightly, enjoy it while it is within your reach, and do not regret it when it is gone, since that is the nature of things.

He is reminding us that—as he puts it elsewhere—everything we have is actually "on loan" from the universe, and the right attitude is to enjoy it while we have it and relinquish it when it is gone. Indeed, precisely because it will one day be gone, it is all the more precious while we have it.

Each beat of your heart is a small miracle, you know, so don't get carried away.

Qué poco valoramos las cosas cuando no las hemos perdido!

A diamond is just another stone to one who is ignorant of its value.

A muddied diamond is better than an unsullied pebble.

Esteem your friends, revere your teachers, honor your parents, regard your supporters.

Pebbles that bring you joy are better than diamonds that bring you sorrow.

Roses have no reason to envy daisies.

Roses have thorns but are worth more than daises.

Indeed, one of the greatest pleasures of travelling was to find a genius hidden among weeds and bushes, a treasure lost in broken tiles, a mass of gold buried in clay, and when I did find such a person, I always kept a record with the hope that I might be able to show it to my friends.

Even badly drawn a morning glory will be charming

What is your greatest regret? "Not staying in better touch with people who truly mattered to me before they died unexpectedly.

Sometimes when you're surrounded by dirt...you're a better witness for what's beautiful.

But mostly I remember every morning before school. How she'd say "Hey, honey!" just I was walking out the apartment door. And me stopping and turning around and saying "What?" And her saying "I love you." And me rolling my eyes like I just wanted to hurry up so I didn't miss the bus. I'd start going again and she'd say "Hey, honey!" and I'd pretend I was so annoyed 'cause she was wasting time and I had to go catch the bus. And how secretly it was my favorite part of every day.

He wondered how his nana always found beautiful where he never even thought to look.

Nana, how come we don't got a car?' 'Boy, what do we need a car for? We got a bus that breathes fire, and old Mr. Daniels, who always has a trick for you.

All a woman actually wants is to feel special.

He'd admired it in the window of a shop on the Strand when he'd met her for dinner one evening, never expecting her to surprise him with it a couple of days later. Now he could see that perhaps she'd bought it out of guilt, but at the time, he just felt it showed how much she'd loved him. He'd been too wrapped up in their future to see it as just a present. And today, perhaps appropriately, it had stopped. Still, at least he was making good time—for

As with post-traumatic growth, it's not the scare itself but the subsequent perspective shift that enhances gratitude.

Read a book without thinking about finishing it. Just read it. Enjoy every word, sentence, and paragraph. Don't wish for it to end, or for it to never end.

Never underestimate the big importance of small things,' Mrs Elm said. 'You must always remember that.

The present is known. The future is unknown. The present is solid. The future is abstract. Ruining the present by worrying about the future is like burning your most treasured possession simply because you might one day lose other possessions that you don't own yet.