Quotes About Appreciation

This is why the license plates say Beautiful British Columbia, and I realized just how much I would miss it. But all this natural beauty exists only in response to rain, I reminded myself, and the occasional day of technicolor spectacle was bought and paid for with weeks and weeks of dull, damp gray. I wasn't going to miss the gray. If

With gratitude, optimism is sustainable.

The great physician, humanitarian and Nobel laureate Albert Schweitzer explained, "The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. — EPICTETUS, Greek philosopher

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing. — RALPH WALDO EMERSON

People living in democratic republics should know not only of its origins but also of the imperfect democratic struggle it spawned. Such appreciation might alleviate the taking of one's way of life for granted.

Questioning helps people gain perspective and understand the perspectives of others. As they see issues and problems from different points of view, they gain an appreciation for their complexity—and also expand the range of possible solutions.

We have forgotten how to see anew, the way a child sees, everything brimming with the excitement of discovery. We have labeled and categorized everything, and we have lost the newness of seeing. Practice seeing your relatives, your family, your life partner, and your closest friends as totally new people every day. Put aside yesterday's images and concepts of who they are, and experience them anew, each day.

For the more we think of ourselves as self-made and self-sufficient, the harder it is to learn gratitude and humility. And without these sentiments, it is hard to care for the common good.

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autosuficientes, más difícil nos resulta aprender gratitud y humildad. Y, sin estos dos sentimientos, cuesta mucho preocuparse por el bien común.

My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields and sandy beaches. It has plenty of stars and the promise of a new sunrise and sunset every day. What the world needs more of is people to appreciate and enjoy it.

This in itself is a fact to be celebrated.

Life is a gift... Enjoy the present

What those who were contemptuous of sports misunderstood was not merely that a middle-class sports fan might revere football to the same degree that an inveterate theatergoer revered Shakespeare, but that he might do so for many of the same reasons.

All I ever wanted...couldn t hold a candle to what I ve been given.

Religion is like an art gallery. One painting will speak to you more than another, and there's no need to explain or defend your taste.

By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools.

You know, if it weren't for Earth's beauty-the birds-flowers-trees-I would never go back. It's too much trouble.

We count our miseries carefully and accept our blessings without much thought." Masters

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

Sometimes we have to hit bottom before we figure out how to really enjoy life.