Quotes About Appreciation

I cannot face you if you think I look at you and see anything less than the man you are. I am not settling for you, I am reaching for you, and there is a difference, and you are that man.'

You're not even looking at the view, Xan." "I'm looking at all I need to.

Nothing," he said softly. "It's just a real nice turtle, that's all." "You

know that when I was teaching, the families of immigrants were among my hardest working and often best behaved. I know that the respect I accorded them was returned to me tenfold.

It deserves our respect, don't you think? If you don't respect the ocean, or time, or fate, or the big things in the world, you sort of have

Not every day is going to be this good." Trav kissed his chest. "No," he said softly. "Let's make sure we remember this one, okay?" "For how long?" Trav asked, half-playful, half-serious. "Forever. Until tomorrow. When I fall in love with you again.

I don't care if it's a mosque, a monastery, or a motherfucking cathedral. The next time that man wants to take you to a holy place and thank a higher power for you, go with him. And thank God personally, from me, that you have somebody who loves you like you deserve.

If you cannot see the fineness in my Hammer, you'd best look at him with better eyes.

Decade When you came, you were like red wine and honey, And the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness. Now you are like morning bread, Smooth and pleasant. I hardly taste you at all for I know your savour, But I am completely nourished.

Aubade" As I would free the white almond from the green husk So I would strip your trappings off, Beloved. And fingering the smooth and polished kernel I should see that in my hands glittered a gem beyond counting. Decade When you came, you were like red wine and honey, And the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness. Now you are like morning bread, Smooth and pleasant. I hardly taste you at all for I know your savour, But I am completely nourished.

I think of myself as a fairly attractive girl and always have, thanks to my mom. I was brought into this world thinking I was gorgeous because my mother was extremely devoted to this notion.

I'm drawn to people who look different. I'm not exploiting. I'm not making fun of them. I'm drawn to them.

Are we so hierarchical that we can't respect a creature that lives beneath our feet?

EVERY DAY, AMERICANS go out and buy about ten million cut flowers. After all I've seen, that really doesn't sound like much. It works out, on a daily basis, to one flower for every twenty-five people. Another way to look at it: Every man, woman, and child gets fourteen stems a year. That's just over one flower a month. How can anybody get by on one flower a month?

The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions. —L. H. BAILEY, Manual of Gardening, 1910

Nobody likes my peas," I said. "But we like having you do them," she said.

The things a mother does well are always invisible compared to the things she does badly.

Wealth and beauty-whatever dangers they brought, one never wished them away.

holy envy," that is, the appreciation of the beliefs and practices of another.2

A good lover will do that, see something worthwhile in you that you never knew was there. And when there's something you don't like to see in yourself a good lover won't see it either.

Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart. The important things.

To all the women and the men who ever loved me just a little.

Sí, acabo de comprender, mi buen aprendiz. El dinero se necesita, ya que el mundo está así montado. Pero el dinero vale por lo que da a cambio y no se le debe amar en sí.

Eres bonita -dijo Raúl-. Más aún de lo que pueda parecer a primera vista. Tienes una belleza escondida, que sólo puede conocerse al cabo de un gran rato de verte, de hablarte.