Quotes About Appreciation

I have come to realize that life is the most precious thing. It matters not where you are, or who you are. All that matters is how that life is lived; and lived it should be, to the full.

To forgotten youth," Patricia said, and raised her glass. "May we always be reminded by envying those who have it.

The oldest human story of all: I never knew what I had until I lost it.

How you humans survive so much experience is something I shall never understand. To do so much and react to it all in the way you do is as much a curse as a blessing. You never take time to digest and appreciate what happens to you.

He never did understand why people admired or even collected art. The greatest human artist could never hope to match what nature did with a single flower.

I always loved Kate Winslet, but after you meet her you really love her because she's a cool chick.

In terms of intellectual debt, more people deserve acknowledgment than we could possibly list.

He commented to me," Schur remembers, "how fortunate he was, that he has found so many valuable friends." Anna had just left the room, which

By the way," said Tegan, suddenly very self-conscious. "Thank you." "What?" "You were prepared to give up everything for us." The Doctor just smiled and stood up. "Oh, come on!

When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one place to another. Each walk should be taken as if it is the only thing you have left. You can demand something like this of yourself as an unattainable ideal. After that, you have to remind yourself about it every time you're sloppy about something. For me that means 250 times a day.

That's where we humans make a mistake. We don't see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary.

Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one place to another. Each walk should be taken as if it is the only thing you have left.

Elmer dedicated a book to Mike. Elmer, a

A man who works all day, every day and loves each apple he uncrates, who cherishes each can of soup - a man like that surely puts us all to shame.

No 'buts', Gilbert. You just make sense to me. It's nothing more special than that.

She was very easy to please, because she took joy in the smallest things, but exacting, too, because that small thing must be authentic, and wondrous in its small self, and not any kind of bullshit. She could detect bullshit from a hillside away. But then she took people at face value and expected the best of them until proven otherwise.

I breathed and thanked something that was not exactly God, something that was still here. I could almost imagine that it was still before when we were young and many things still lived.

I always gave her a book. An old hardback from the same section in the used bookstore where you'd find Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, and musty scrawled-in Hobbits, the painted paper covers often ripped or gone... My favorite was a sort of illustrated guidebook of pond creatures on which a very young child had written in pencil on each page under the picture of an otter I love otter Under a muskrat: I love muskrat Beaver: I love beaver

with a sense of having been spared and having been blessed.

Pete half smiled. It was his way of giving vigorous applause.

Few people had the luck to die in the prime of life in full appreciation of all the goodness therein. Leave it at that, he thought. As good a place as any.

The fire crackled under the long pan of clear sap and he and his dad didn't say much, but he was aware enough—he'd read enough fiction, he guessed—to realize that these might be the best hours he and his father ever spent together.

It occurred to me that the death of his grazing land hurt him more, incomparably more than the death of the human race. I liked him a lot better in that moment.

We sat there and I knew that this was how it felt to be totally accepted. You sit close to another person and are understood, everything is understood and nothing is judged and you are indispensable.