Quotes About Appreciation

But what is the finest book, or picture, or house, or estate, to me, compared to my wife, my parents, or my friend

We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.

When we love somebody, whether it be a friend, a parent, a child, whether it be conjugal love or neighborly love, the beloved person always stands before us as something precious and noble in himself.

love typically gives rise to responsiveness regarding the beauty of a very specific individual taken as a whole rather than for values taken individually.

Happiness is being contented with what you got-- so get enough.

When some great teachers of the past reflected on the rarity of human existence, they did not even feel like sleeping; they could not bear to waste a single moment. They put all their energy into spiritual practice.

nous avons de quoi nous vêtir et nous loger, mais nous aimerions tellement avoir des vêtements plus remarquables,

Let us not take what we eat for granted; let us view our meals as an opportunity to give our Lord praise.

When we think of our family, our spouse, parents, or children, let us see them as a gift from God.

At the end of the night they all seemed so happy. Maybe it was just because they hadn't seen each other in a while, but as they all gathered around hugging, kissing, and well-wishing each other, I found myself feeling for the first time in my life like maybe I'd missed out on something.

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.

The way she said "dinner" and the way she said "champagne" gave meat and liquid their exact difference, as if by having surmounted two mediums, earth and air, her talent, running forward, achieved all others.

Poštovanje smo dužni samo ponekom. A ljubav svakom ko nas je voleo.

A flower falls, even though we love it and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.

I make a point to appreciate all the little things in my life. I go out and smell the air after a good, hard rain. I re-read passages from my favorite books. I hold the little treasures that somebody special gave me. These small actions help remind me that there are so many great, glorious pieces of good in the world.

A minute to Dolly's like a lifetime to everybody else.

Then we decided that our failure to understand something does not necessarily mean it is without merit.

What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then maybe they'll feel different about the spiders and snakes they find around their areas. I don't need people to keep them as pets. I just like them to be respectful and see that everything in nature has its place.

Love. Be thankful. Appreciate.

So much of Valetto is negative space, I thought as I walked along, the conjuring of imaginary forms, but then you turn a corner and see the curled Cs of a dozen sleeping cats in the piazza, the clay-potted geraniums on the edges of stone stairs, the winter rooftop gardens, or the old man in a leather apron walking to the church every hour to ring the bronze bells, and you feel certain that this town of ten will be here forever.

Quality time is not the same as the everydayness of being together. Let's neither glorify nor undervalue.

And every day, I thank you, too... The reason? Just because you're you!

Excellence cannot happen in the kind of environment that values time constraints above all else, and you certainly cannot harmonize anything within the Gong Dao Bei until arriving at that keen level of spiritual and emotional maturity where a deep appreciation of the ultimate opportunity is felt and understood.