Quotes About Appreciation

I think about the thin, fragile line separating all of us from misfortune, almost as a way of putting a few coins in my own gratitude meter, of safeguarding against and after happening to me.

Cuando tienes una relación, eres consciente de que se puede acabar. puede que os distanciéis, conozcáis a otro o simplemente que dejéis de estar enamorados. Pero una amistad no es un juego de suma cero y, como tal, das por sentado que durará para siempre, en especial si es una vieja amistad. das por sentada su permanencia; quizá sea por eso por lo que es tan valiosa.

real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.

In Room me and Ma had time for everything. I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit....

The crow flew closer, as if to hear its praises.

It was like wanting ice cream instead of meat loaf, and being told that children in refugee camps would be grateful for the meat loaf. Yes, of course she had nothing to complain about, compared to so many people, but when had that ever stopped anyone from complaining? Happiness was a balloon that always hovered just out of arm's reach.

She was with Jude so rarely that when she was, every cell of her body rang with grateful knowledge of it.

I'd actually rather not have you thinking about that stuff every time you look at me, OK? There's more tears rolling down Grandma. Sweetie, she says, all I think when I look at you is hallelujah.

Once I spent a whole day there, a blade of grass in each hand to anchor me to the warm earth. I watched the sun rise, pass over my head and set. Ladybirds mated on my knuckle; a shrew nibbled a hole in my stocking while I tried not to laugh. Such a day was worth any punishment.

The trouble with death is that there is no next. There is only what was and for that I am profoundly and heartbrokenly grateful.

thankfully.

I want you to know, my dear friend, that without you, I would not be the person I am today. He leaned in close and whispered, I was a broken boy, and you fixed me. Thank you.

Artemis looked at Holly and felt a tremendous affection for her... he could properly appreciate how fierce and beautiful his best friend was... She is truly magical, thought Artemis. Perhaps her qualities are more obvious to me now that I have decided to sacrifice myself.

Humans have a saying that Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which basically means that if you think it's beautiful, then it is beautiful. The elfin version of this saying was composed by the great poet B.O Selecta, who said Even the plainest of the plain shall deign to reign, which critics have always thought was a bit rhymey. The dwarf version of this maxim is If it don't stink, marry it, which is slightly less romantic, but the general gist is the same.

one centimeter can make an awful lot of difference when you don't have many to spare.

Artemis zorgde er met wat kussens voor dat Holly gemakkelijk lag. 'Weet toch, lieve vriendin, dat ik zonder jou niet degene zou zijn die ik nu ben.' Hij boog zich dicht naar haar toe en fluisterde: 'Ik was er slecht aan toe, en jij hebt me gered. Dank je wel.

For if we had any sense, what else should we do, both in public and in private, than sing hymns and praise the deity, and recount all the favours that he has conferred!

If you are kissing your child or wife, say that it is a human being whom you are kissing, for when the wife or child dies, you will not be disturbed.

the gods I am indebted for having good grandfathers, good parents, a good sister, good teachers, good associates, good kinsmen and friends, nearly everything good.

Nothing can truly be taken from us. There is nothing to lose. Inner peace begins when we stop saying of things, I have lost it and instead say, It has been returned to where it came from. [...] The important thing is to take great care with what you have while the world lets you have it.

What did I lack then, anyway?

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.

Incerc sa le explic parintilor mei ca viata e un dar buclucas. La inceput ai tendinta sa-l supraestimezi crezand ca viata pe care ai primit-o este vesnica. Apoi, dimpotriva, il subestimezi, gasind ca-i o porcarie, scurta de nu-ntelegi nimic din ea si pe care uneori ti-ar veni s-o arunci de sa nu se vada. Abia catre sfarsit pricepi ca nu-i vorba de niciun dar, ci de un simplu imprumut. Pe care trebuie sa incerci sa-l meriti.

I have been very blessed in my life and rewarded with good friends and good health. I am grateful and happy to be able to share this.