Quotes About Appreciation

Remember: In the beginning, make yourself not scarce but omnipresent. Only what is seen, appreciated, and loved will be missed in its absence.

En Japón hay un dicho popular que reza: "Tada yori takai mono wa nai", que significa: "Nada es más caro que algo que se da gratis". The Unspoken Way, MICHIHIRO MATSUMOTO, 1988

Remember the following: Never take your position for granted and never let any favors you receive go to your

If you never expect gratitude from a friend, you will be pleasantly surprised when they do prove grateful.

What withdraws, what becomes scarce, suddenly seems to deserve our respect and honor.

Antes que nada, quisiera dar las gracias a Anna Biller por sus incontables contribuciones a este libro:

For them, it was just an ordinary miracle.

What starts as gratitude quickly becomes dependency and ends as entitlement

he possessed for attractive form of courage: bravery of a nervous man. After all, any rash fool can be a hero if he sets no value on his life or hasn't the wit to appreciate the danger. But to understand the risks, perhaps even to flinch at first, but then summon the strength to face them down--that is my opinion is the most commendable for of value...

If it is gratitude you want, get a dog.

Once in a lifetime You get to have it all But you never knew you had it Till you go and lose it all.

Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your loses for too long.

Those intricate curves and patterns your people create are beyond human eyes and hands to make. Perhaps we wished to avoid a poor imitation that would only have been an ever-present reminder to us of what we had lost. There is a different beauty in simplicity, in a single line placed just so, a single flower among the rocks. The harshness of the stone makes the flower more precious. We try not to dwell too much on what is gone. The strongest heart will break under that strain.

Light's truth, if you got a woman to feed you on a regular basis, she was halfway won.

Do not cut off your ears because you do not like your earrings.

I am thankful to have two friends such as you," she said simply. Birgitte grinned at her as if she had said something silly.

Perhaps I also dwell too much on what is gone. And yet, the groves were beautiful.

A flower in a field of weeds was always a sight, but if you passed cultivated flower beds every day, none of them drew your notice.

Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses too long

If you have no gratitude, have you no shame?

Goza de lo que tienes. Regocíjate por lo que puedes salvar, y no llores la muerte de tu gente demasiado tiempo.»

Being blessed has tremendous psychological consequences for us. There are even studies that show that our bodies actually change chemically when we feel valued, praised, and blessed.

We can only admire others if we have a sense of our own worthiness, and a developing sense of security about our own creative energies.

This condemnation of technology is ingratitude, that's what it is. Blind alley, though. If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.