Quotes About Appreciation

If we have friends we should look only for the best in them and give them the best that is in us, don't you think?

Isn't it good just to be a live on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it. They may have good days, of course, but they can never have this one.

It had always seemed to Emily, ever since she could remember, that she was very, very near to a world of wonderful beauty.

And it was so nice to see her again and have a long talk over old times. Her sister Em was there, too, with such a delicious baby." "You talk as if it was something to eat," grunted Mrs. Gibson. "Babies are common enough." "Oh, no, babies are never common," said Anne, bringing a bowl of water for Mrs. Gibson's roses. "Every one is a miracle.

Red Currants are such beautiful things, aren't they Dora? It's just like eating jewels, isn't it?

Es la primera vez que veo una cosa que no puedo mejorar con la imaginación. Y me ha hecho sentir algo especial aquí. —dijo, poniendo la mano sobre el pecho—. Como dolor y placer al mismo tiempo.

Anne," said Leslie, breaking abruptly a short silence, "you don't know how GOOD it is to be sitting here with you again — working — and talking — and being silent together.

Let us be sure that the lady of our choice possesses certain tangible qualities that we admire; and if in other ways she falls short of our ideal, we must be patient and call to mind those qualities that first induced us to begin our courting.

I was preoccupied only with the price of things and neglected to consider their value.

wet cap and lets it drip on the table. "Bag of cash!" he scoffs. "She's still buying into Strycker's case. Strycker's all about appealing to clichés: The bag of cash. The American Dream. The inhuman laborer. The ambitious and ungrateful son who can't appreciate what's been done for him.

Life in San Francisco is still just life. If you want one thing too much it's likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and

There can be secondary and tertiary reasons for wanting a particular book. One is the pleasure of holding the physical book itself: savoring the type, the binding, the book's feel and heft. All these things can be enjoyed apart from literature, which some, but not all, books contain.

He had learned to embrace insanity. The full measure of his madness was that he had even come to like humans

But men can forget. If too much time goes by, they can forget what they have. How much they want what they have.

But it is an amazing thing to be with someone who really sees you -Jen

This was something we sometimes did on days we got home late—on days we were too tired to get into the big stuff. We each picked one thing from the day to tell each other about. One good thing from our separate lives.

You learn it in the moments when everyone's too tired to be sweet, too tired to try hard. You learn it by what they do for you then.

another small reminder how lucky I was to love him.

He raised a glass to them and said, wherever they were, he was grateful to them for not being what I needed, so he got to be the one sitting across from me.

it is an amazing thing to be with someone who really sees you.

You should be careful not to take the person you love for granted. Not only because they'll notice. But you'll notice too. You'll think it means something it doesn't.

It was comforting, the way this place got more beautiful every day. Wasn't that the gift of a home? You looked at it the same way, but then when you needed it to, it showed you all over again the many ways you'd been during the time that you had been living there. The many ways it had brought you back to yourself. The many ways it still brought you back to yourself.

He'd called them the could-have-been boys. He raised a glass to them and said, wherever they were, he was grateful to them for not being what I needed, so he got to be the one sitting across from me.

Presenciar o mistério da vida era suficientemente impressionante para evitar pensar na morte, em qualquer uma das suas manifestações: o abandono, a perda, o desaparecimento. Não, a única coisa que o seu espírito e o seu coração desejavam era festejar a vida.