Quotes About Appreciation

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

Everyone can open a book not everyone can appreciate the beauty of the writing.

Joy isn't the natural response to blessings - joy is what comes from acknowledging them.

there is no joy without gratitude

I once read that love is like a rose: we fixate on the blossom, but it's the thorny stem that keeps it alive and aloft. I think marriage is like that. Like my father said, the things of greatest value are the things we fight for. And in the end, if we do it right, we value the stem far more than the blossom

I'm glad I have you for my boyfriend." "Me too," I said. "Sometimes I have to pinch myself." She pinched my arm and smiled. "You're so cute.

It seems a long time since I remembered all I have to be grateful for. Perhaps that's why it's been such a long time since I've been really happy.

For the first time I realized that gratitude and joy were connected, like conjoined twins. I couldn't be happy because I wasn't grateful and I wasn't grateful because I wasn't allowing myself to be. I was too busy hunting the next prize to appreciate the prize already at home. What I had was never enough, not because of the deficit in what I had but because of the deficit in me.

Some people spend so much time hunting treasure that they fail to see it all around them. It's like sifting through gold to find the silt.

I've learned that the greatest threat to love is not circumstance but the absence of attentions. For we do not neglect others because we have ceased to love; rather we ceased to love others because we have neglected them. I've learned that each day is a miracle unearned. I've learned that while life is ephemeral-a vapor- LOVE is not. In short, I have learned what matters and what does not.

There are none so impoverished as those who deny the blessings of their lives.

Yes, she's fine. She's rereading one of your books. There's not many authors she likes, so if there's nothing new, she just rereads yours. The funny thing is, she forgets how they end, so she enjoys it just as much as the first time. I swear the woman could plan her own surprise party.

We can bemoan what we have lost, or we can be grateful to have been blessed with something to mourn.

The things that are the most necessary, the most critical to us, are the things we take most for granted. Air. Water. Love. If you have someone to love, you are lucky. If they love you back, you're blessed. And if you waste the time you have to love them, you're a fool.

We don't appreciate the things that come easy to us as much as we do the things we have to work for. I think that's true for love as well.

As appreciative as I had already been for their kindness, now I was astounded. In the midst of such heartbreak, this good couple had reached out to me in my pain. For the first time in a long while, I felt hope in humanity.

When you're struggling with lack, it's easy to become obsessed with all you don't have and forget what you do. It was nice to be reminded of all I had to be grateful for.

It's a shame people don't have the advantage of knowing when their time's up..They would stop trading time for trinkets –

When you're struggling with lack, it's easy to become obsessed with all you don't have and forget what you do.

Love is like a rose: we fixate on the blossom, but it's the thorny stem that keeps it alive and aloft. In the end, if we have done it right, we value the stem far more than the blossom.

anyone can open a book. Not everyone can appreciate the beauty of the writing.

Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

We humans...are seriously flawed. The things that are the most necessary, the most critical to us, are the things we take most for granted. Air. Water. Love. If you have someone to love, you are lucky. If they love you back, you're blessed. And if you waste the time you have to love them, you're a fool.

You have given me a thing I could never have imagined, before I knew you. It's like I had the word "book," and you put one in my hands. I had the world "game," and you taught me how to play. I had the word "life," and then you came along and said, "Oh! You mean this.