Quotes About Appreciation

My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.

When had I stopped disparaging my parents' way of life and had instead begun to covet it?

Life is precious and we don't realize that at the time.

My point is that you know who your mom was, Avery. We both do. And she was wonderful.

Zo ken ik mijn meisje weer!' brulde Xander. 'Vrouw,' verbeterde Max hem. 'Zo ken ik mijn vrouw weer! En "mijn" is uiteraard bedoeld op een compleet niet bezitterige en absoluut onpatriarchale manier!' Max hief haar glas. 'Reken maar van faxing yes.

Goed geraden,' antwoordde Alisa. Ze keek even achterom. 'Meneer Hawthorne was zeer gesteld op mensen die goed konden raden.

Nash, I've cued up the Taylor Swift for you.

Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.

As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice.

The truth was, he believed he was the luckiest man on earth to have these two for a wife and daughter—it was like getting to live with fairies or mermaids, some breathtakingly beautiful creatures he was not meant to understand fully.

Feeding the chickens was one of his favorite chores of the day—he enjoyed the way they greeted him with clucks and coos, the warmth of the eggs taken from the nest boxes. The chickens gave them so much and asked for so little in return.

For Epicurus, living prudently, in deep appreciation of modest pleasures, was not just the route to happiness, it was happiness.

The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count. Everyone's so busy waiting in the Waiting Place.

I've always thought you should be able to freeze time. This way you could hit the Pause button at a really good point in your life so that nothing changes

We never know how long we have. We're never guaranteed tomorrow. I could die right now, right here.

The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count. Everyone's so busy waiting in the Waiting Place. If we stopped to remember that there's such a thing as a Purina Tower and a view like this, we'd all be happier.

The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count. Everyone's so busy waiting in the Waiting Place. If we stopped to remember that there's such a thing as a Purina Tower and a view like this, we'd all be happier.

I'm still here, and I'm grateful, because otherwise I would be missing this. Sometimes it's good to be awake.

Believe it or not, it's actually beautiful to some people.

But maybe even the smallest places mean something. And if not, maybe they can mean something to us.

Like everything else that doesn't last, today is gone now, but it was a pretty good day.

I think I've got a map in my car that wants to be used, and I think there are places we can go that need to be seen. Maybe no one else will ever visit them and appreciate them or take the time to think they're important, but maybe even the smallest places mean something....Let's go. Let's count for something. Let's get off that ledge.

This is the single loveliest thing anyone's ever done for me. It's movie lovely. It feels somehow epic and fragile, and I wand the night to last forever, and knowing it can't already has me sad.

I am staring at the place where the floor used to be. All I can think is how one minute the floor was there and now it's not. How you could go through an entire day, every day, not thinking about the floor or the ground because you just assume it will always be there. Until it isn't.