Quotes About Appreciation

A single hour snatched from death outweighs a whole existence of tortures.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you.

gratitude makes for soul-growth.

How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Because joy and life exist nowhere but the present.

To the degree that we deny the gift of life, we embrace death.

Youth is given. One must put it awaylike a doll in a closet,take it out and play with it onlyon holidays.How to Be Old [1963]

One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.

There are days when I wonder why my mom couldn't be here to see this.

I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.

It's wonderful to be appreciated for being quirky, and to see Zooey Deschanel and the quirky, indie film types get mainstream play is amazing for women, because women are much more complicated than what we've see on TV in the past.

Otvorio sam knjigu nasumice i našao na pri?u o Aleksandru Makedonskom.Car je, pri?a se tu, dobio na poklon divne posude od stakla. Poklon mu se veoma svidio, a ipak je sve polupao. -Zašto? Zar nije lijepo? -Pitali su ga. -Baš zato-odgovorio bi on. -Toliko su lijepe, da bi mi bilo teško da ih izgubim. A vremenom bi se jedna po jedna razbijala, i ja bih žalio više nego sad.

Ljubav je valjda jedina stvar na svijetu koju ne treba objašnjavati ni tražiti joj razlog. Pa ipak to ?inim, makar samo zato da još jednom pomenem ?ovjeka koji je unio toliko radosti u moj život.

Treba da zapazimo ?ovjeka, da ga razlikujemo od ostalih, svako ima nešto svoje, i drago mu je ako se baš to posebno primijeti.

This solitude hurt pleasantly; it made me sorry, but I would not have traded it for anything. The ground smelled of the warm moisture of spring. Turtledoves landed in the poplars, pigeons were bathing in the shallow water, ruffling their feathers, splashing red and green droplets all around. A cowbell rang sluggishly somewhere in the distance. A familiar place, familiar colours, familiar sounds. I looked around: it was mine. I smelled the air: it was mine. I listened: it was mine.

Kad sam bio ugrožen, mislio sam samo na nju, hrabre?i se njenim prisustvom.Kad mi je bilo teško, pominjao sam njeno ime kao u molitvi, nalaze?i olakšanje. Kad osjetim radost, tr?im da je podijelim s njom, zahvalan joj, kao da mi je ona daruje.

Take care of the success of those who work with you and they will take care of your success. Honor and respect those who support your success, including the ones who manage you and the ones you manage.

Maybe that's what love meant, both people thinking they were the lucky one.

Only tiny kindnesses, but the ones that counted, the million little mercies we take for granted, the mundane gestures that keep us, tentatively, together.

But as you age, you lose other, even more important things, like friends-hopefully only bad friends, who maybe weren't as good for you as you once thought. With luck, you'll be able to hang on to your true friends, the ones who were always there for you....even when you thought they weren't. Because friends like that are more precious then all the tiaras in the world