Quotes About Appreciation

I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager, either. But I would go back and watch certain movies again and again. By the time I saw 'The Graduate' I was aware of how these amazing stories could be told.

My dear Lady Kroesig, I have only read one book in my life, and that is 'White Fang.' It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

That I have not seen does not mean I cannot appreciate.

To own silence . . . How odd that one does not appreciate something, nor even realize its absence, until it is presented as an unexpected gift.

Inrealized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remind people of what a treasure letters--handwritten letters--can be. In our throwaway era of quick phone calls, faxes, and email, it's all to easy never to find the time to write letters. That's a great pity--for historians and the rest of us.

No child ever has too much self-esteem. If you take every possible opportunity to point out what children do well, praise them descriptively for it and express appreciation, your child will become more cooperative, competent and confident.

Your generation does everything so fast I think you've forgotten how to enjoy the pleasures of going slow.

Daughters primarily need love and security. This is why a critical spirit is so destructive. Remember, we want our children to have fat, prospering souls. Criticism and impatience destroy rather than build up. Daughters need to feel important, loved, accepted, needed, wanted, and appreciated. Mothers must be diligent to praise their daughters, not for their achievements primarily, but for who they are.

Savor your existence. Live every moment. Do not waste a breath.

We have lots of ups and downs, pleasures and pains, but that's life and we learn to accept the bad with the good. Without the bad times, we wouldn't appreciate the good times.

All beauty touches the human heart, be it only so small as an ant or a spider.

I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.

life is too short not living every second of it

Let me peer out at the world through your lens. (Maybe I'll shudder, or gasp, or tilt my head in a question.) Let me see how your blue is my turquoise and my orange is your gold. Suddenly binary stars, we have startling gravity. Let's compare scintillation - let's share starlight.

I'm writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you often.

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

Ma non si amano soltanto le memorie felici. A un certo punto della vita, ci si accorge che si amano le memorie.

La felicità, – lui disse, – sembra sempre niente, è come l'acqua, e si capisce solo quando è perduta. – È vero, – lei disse. E pensò un poco, e disse: – E anche il male che noi facciamo, è così, sembra niente, sembra una sciocchezza, acqua fresca, mentre lo facciamo. Se no allora la gente non lo farebbe, starebbe più attenta.

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

As writers we are always seeking support. First we should notice that we are already supported every moment. There is the earth below our feet and there is the air, filling our lungs and emptying them. We should begin from this when we need support. There is the sunlight coming though the window and the silence of the morning. Begin from these.

A writer's job is to make the ordinary come alive, to awaken ourselves to the specialness of simply being

Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.

We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.