Quotes About Appreciation

Looking at things is never time wasted. If your children want to stand and stare, let them. When I was marvelling at the beauty of a painting or enjoying a great view it did not occur to me that the experience, however intense, would be of value many years later. But there it has remained, tucked away in hidden bits of my mind and now it comes, shouldering aside even the most passionate love affairs.

Look! Why want anything more marvellous than what is.

My story can never be your story (that is called colonization—something I hope we are leaving behind). But my story might inform yours, or be like yours, or maybe even add depth or another dimension to yours. If nothing else, sharing our stories might lead to greater understanding, tolerance, appreciation, and perhaps even celebration of our differences.

Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefulness, and gratefulness is a measure of our aliveness. —DAVID STEINDL-RAST

Another woman gave her boyfriend a ten-minute back rub every day he managed to arrive for dinner by 7:00.

Tolkien looked forward to sending new chapters to his son. In one letter, he expressed his appreciation to Christopher saying, "This book has come to be more and more addressed to you, so that your opinion matters more than any one else's." When

One never notices how nice it is to be worshipped until one has fallen from grace,

You got a problem?" "Aside from the fact that we are about to die? No. But I want to say thank you before it is too late.

So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.

For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How can one choose?

He looked through the bars thoughtfully, then back at me. "I'll never forget how she went to you after Lois's funeral that day," he said. "She's a very intuitive little girl, and that moment told me something about you." "It did?" I asked. He nodded. "It told me you're someone worth fighting for," he said.

Warren Hirsh graciously answered my endless questions. Thank you to my brother

But I felt . . . I still feel . . . . lucky I had the chance to know you.' She puts her arm around my shoulders, very gently, and I can tell she thinks of me as an old lady who needs to be handled with care. She should see me do the shoulder stand in my yoga class.

Mrs Forrester said you could ruin a thing by wishing for something else. "If you're having fun at the beach, like we are, but you spend all your time here wishing you could be here all the time, you're wasting the time you're here.

That's what I learned. I learned I couldn't shed light on love other than to feel its comings and goings and be grateful.

Daniel Wolf's advice—want what you have.

Compliments linger.

You can't buy what you want. It all comes as a gift.

when the great moments came, you should stop and enjoy them, because they weren't going to last.

Moments we take for granted become precious memories.

That'll do, pig, that'll do.

Perhaps, above all, Gladstone should be seen as an archetypal figure of the Victorian age, though he was never appreciated by its figurehead, whose interests he had tried so devotedly and so unrewardingly to serve.

Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin. ... We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us.

Only he who gives thanks for little things receives the big things. We prevent God from giving us the great spiritual gifts he has in store for us, because we do not give thanks for daily gifts.