Quotes About Appreciation

And, as Mr. Shakespeare said, 'thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks'!

Indeed, it seemed to be the wont of most people in a distracted and frantic world to blast through an experience without savoring it or, later, reflecting upon it.

Thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks!' Ã¢â'¬Â Hope exclaimed, quoting Shakespeare.

Only he who gives thanks for little things receives the big things.

While most people understandably took family for granted, he took it for grace.

Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it.

Then he turned and went home to the yellow house where he had been given everything and more, none of it especially deserved.

Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it. For too many years, I ate fancy, I dressed fancy, I talked fancy. A while back, I decided to start talkin' th' way I was raised t' talk, and for th' first time in forty years, I can understand what I'm sayin'.

Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart," he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he found in his files. "Every properly constituted human being who entertains an appreciation of loneliness...and looks forward to happiness and content feels the necessity of loving. Without it, life is unfinished...

Inspiration is very nice when you get it. It's like being given a present you weren't expecting. You don't hand the present back and say, 'My birthday's not till November.' You take it and run.

In a Kenya game park once I saw a family of wart-hogs waddling ungainly and in a tremendous hurry across the grass. Contemptuous though I am of those who find animals comic…still I could not help laughing at this quaint spectacle. My African companion rightly rebuked me. "You should not laugh at them," he said. "They are beautiful to each other.

She couldn't see the mathematical beauty in a leaf, the miracle in a seed that becomes a seedling, the absolute wonder that is the earth and the sea and the sky. He would try to talk to her of these things and receive only dismissive comments in reply. He learned from her to keep his mouth shut.

We tend to listen to Mozart with ears trained by Beethoven, and that's not the best way to listen to Mozart.

Dear Lord, we thank you for this day, good food, better friends, and the fact that Ida Belle and I have outlived so many people we didn't like.

Besides, have you seen the price on a good bottle of scotch? Good Lord, I almost fainted.

The craving to be valued, he adds, is not a male impulse, but a human one.

Raisinable, which

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

What makes me happy I seem to catch out of the sky with both hands; I only hold whatever it is that I love because that is all I can really see.

I don't judge people by their bodies. Even when I was a young girl I liked men for their minds. Now that I'm middle-aged I see how right I was.

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.