Quotes About Appreciation

It is the fact that time is passing that creates its preciousness.

But how much better, in any case, to wonder than not to wonder, to dance with astonishment and go spinning in praise, than not to know enough to dance or praise at all; to be blessed with more imagination than you might know at the given moment what to do with than to be cursed with too little to give you -- and other people -- any trouble.

When my mother would tell me that she wanted me to have something because she as a child had never had it, I wanted, or I partly wanted, to give it back. All my life I continued to feel that bliss for me would have to imply my mother's deprivation or sacrifice. I don't think it would have occurred to her what a double emotion I felt, and indeed I know that it was being unfair to her, for what she said was simply the truth.

No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

It is a disservice to any form to elevate it as the form.

It's too bad you can't always live as if it were the last moment of your life. Because, you know, it might be-it might really be. And if we could really see it that way, really live like that, I think we'd all feel a lot differently about everything.

But somehow, after you talked to her for a while, after you got to know her, she started to look really awesome. I thought so anyway. After you found out how warm she was, how kind, how interested she was in what other people had to say. It changed the way she looked . . . I don't really know how to describe it.

Before you lose things, you don't really know you can lose them,

The world had no beauty of its own. The beauty of the world was created in the human experience, in me. The very fact of beauty, the very idea that something could be beautiful, only existed in me. The point was not to see the world....The point was to experience the world.

It is not how much we love and appreciate someone, it is how much they know it

Every parent is astonished when their child becomes, quite suddenly, a young person. Only yesterday … Why didn't we notice what was happening when it was happening? Why had we been too busy to enjoy her progress towards the cusp of maturity?

My dream is that by returning to our not-so-distant history, I might remind readers why, with all its faults, this is a lucky place to be living in, and one we can be quietly proud of.

If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.

The happiest people don't bother about whether life is unfair. They just concentrate on what they have.

When they're alive, it's easy to see the flaws. When they're gone, you tend to notice only the hole in the Earth that they left.

Thank you. Um . . . how does billing work?" "This one is on me because you're fighting the good fight. Next time I send Julian a fat invoice

For she was not of their world nor did she share their values. When she looked at a rose she savoured its beauty, they counted the petals.

Não fico ressentida por conta disso, mas seria muito bom fazer coisas como passar um fim de semana em Paris, mas isso não é possível para mim no momento. Porém, sei que um dia, se seguir as regras da vida — o jogo da vida — poderei ter as coisas que sempre desejei, e elas serão muito mais especiais porque serei muito mais velha e muito mais capaz de apreciá-las.

When she looked at a rose she savoured its beauty, they counted the petals.

Happy Birthday, is a happy feeling, but Glad you are here, has so much more meaning.

He had never appreciated just how much the unwashed human smelt previously, was surprised to find himself offended by mere odours.

Vea -dijo el brujo-, tenías razón. - ¿Hmm? - Él es el más hermoso.

It's impossible to repay something that has no price. Some say everything in the world–everything, with no exception–has a price. It's not true. There are things with no price, things that are priceless. But you realise it belatedly: when you lose them, you lose them forever and nothing can get them back for you. I have lost many such things. Which is why I can't help you today.

I consider gazing into the abyss utter foolishness. There are many things in the world much more worth gazing into. Dandelion, Half a Century of Poetry