Quotes About Appreciation

Bear heard Rose in the background saying, 'Why thank you, Mr. Fish.' 'Good redhead. Helpful redhead,' Fish returned.

You're drinking in the joy of life,' Bear told her when she tried to explain why she was laughing. 'There's so much opportunity for drinking deeply of it, and we very rarely do it. When you do, it makes you feel alive all over.

He wanted to see the world through her eyes, where simple things like oak paneling and stone bridges were marvels.

we find in the body an objective witness to our life that has no investment whatsoever in our skewed ego-versions of things. In addition, our Soma not only knows the truth of how it is with us, others, and the world, but it appreciates and, in a strange way, delights in everything. Even more, it wants to communicate this to us and provide mentoring. Our Soma is literally an infinite ocean of practical wisdom, and

I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit.

I wonder if anyone who needs a snappy song service can really appreciate the meaning of the cross.

and I'm trying so hard, with all my heart and mind, to make your life as good as you've made mine...

Gratitude is a species of love, excited in us by some action of the person for whom we have it, and by which we believe that he has done some good to us, or at least that he has had the intention of doing so. Passions, III, 193. XI, 473-474. Trans. John Morris

Gratitude is food for a weary soul

The practice of gratitude can soften a difficult situation

You can tell me everything, her eyes say, because I will see beauty in everything you say.

When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.

The best way to compliment someone is frequently. —ANONYMOUS

She shrugged. "I guess not, but at the same time, sometimes the best things are right in front of you.

I'm just saying, sissy, love the life God gave you. Stop trying to create a different one.

He expressed appreciation for the information I provided, taking a dozen pages of notes in his small neat hand, and asking plenty of questions, not to challenge but just to elucidate. He did offer a pointed comment about what he called our dodge with Helmar, with his ward upstairs, and I rebutted.

The sight of a pretty girl provokes in him an overwhelming reaction of appreciation and approval, and correlatively his acquisitive instinct, but he has never married. Why not? Because he knows that if he had a wife, his reaction to pretty girls, now pure and frank and free, would not only be intolerably adulterated but would also be under surveillance and subject to restriction by authority. So the governor always stops him short of disaster.

a man owes it to his eyes to let them rest on attractive objects when there are any around.

Court the moments of joy

When you consciously choose to see the good that is already present in your life, you immediately open up the floodgates for more good to come your way.

There is always something to be grateful for. Pure love has no conditions or boundaries. Love does not restrain itself or hold back. Love gives all the time and doesn't ask for anything in return. Love is a continuous flow without any limits. And all of this is inside you.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.

When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food and the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies with yourself." Tecumseh (1768–1813) SHAWNEE NATIVE AMERICAN LEADER

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES