Quotes About Appreciation

In any case, unless we learn how to appreciate what we have, there is no point striving for more.

Jarenlang kwam ik bij het boodschappen doen langs een huis dat weliswaar een van de lelijkste gebouwen was dat ik ooit heb gezien, maar me ook meer over architectuur heeft geleerd dan menig meesterwerk.

The trick is perhaps not to start a new life but to learn to reconsider the old one with less jaded and habituated eyes.

Can there be any greater pleasure than to come across an author one enjoys and then to find they have written not just one book or two, but at least a dozen?

One recipe for happiness is to have no sense of entitlement

the more institutions and freedoms and benefits one can take for granted – of which in my view free state-supported galleries and museums come high on the list – the more civilised a society is.

16 December. In his book The Poetics of Space (1958) the critic and philosopher Gaston Bachelard quotes the advice of a dictionary of botany: 'Reader, study the periwinkle in detail, and you will see how detail increases an object's stature.' 'To use a magnifying glass', Bachelard comments a little later, 'is to pay attention.' (From The Man with a Blue Scarf by Martin Gayford.)

I am secure in the knowledge that I am the mother of your heart, Etsuko said, smiling. But she is the mother of your blood. She deserves to see what a fine woman you have become

I'm lucky, you see: I had two mothers. One gave life to me; one raised me. But they both loved me. You know, some people don't even get that once... There's only one disadvantage, really, to having two mothers. You know twice the love... but you grieve twice as much.

She began to understand that none of this could replace or usurp the family she had always known, but enriched what she already possessed. With wonder and a growing absence of fear she realized, I am more than I was an hour ago.

There is beauty,' she said, 'in the least beautiful of things.

She remembers the pain of losing him, but she smiles at the happiness he brought her, cherishing the joy she felt at his side.

There is beauty,' she said, 'in the least beautiful things.

to the late Mrs. Tsukamoto I offer my kansha—my gratitude and appreciation—for her work.

ACIM states that you will be appalled when you realize what you are truly here for (T-17.V.5:6). You thought you were here to get stuff, prove yourself, and find people to love you. Instead you are here get peace, be yourself, and find people to love. You thought you were here to fix the world. Instead you are here to appreciate what is before you and see the world through new eyes.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

People find money for the things they value. They do not find money for things they don't value. It's as simple as that. All else is excuse, distraction, complication, and smoke and mirrors.

To be grateful is to find blessings in everything. This is the most powerful attitude to adopt, for there are blessings in everything.

Real humility is not about denying the gifts you are offered; it is accepting them.

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

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If I had known what the next six years of my life were going to be like, I would have eaten more. I wouldn't have complained about brushing my teeth, or taking a bath, or going to bed at eight o'clock every night. I would have played more. Laughed more. I would have hugged my parents and told them I loved them. But I was ten years old, and I had no idea of the nightmare that was to come. None of us did.

If I had known what the next six years of my life were going to be like, I would have eaten more. I wouldn't have complained about brushing my teeth, or taking a bath, or going to bed at eight o'clock every night. I would have played more. Laughed more. I would have hugged my parents and told them I loved them.

older vowels were showing through as he said that it was "awfully good of" his parents to have tolerated him.