Quotes About Appreciation

To draw close to Divinity is to come to appreciate man as a divine creation, for "If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 343).

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends

The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children who has filled his niche and accomplished his task who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

We do not want to destroy unnecessarily what men spent so much time and care and skill in making… [for] these examples of craftsmanship tell us so much about our ancestors.…

fellows are just naturally interested in a good piece of work and have no unnatural restrictions in looking it over. Perhaps, and may the sahibs of the Fogg forgive me for thinking it, this simple, curious outlook of healthy men is more important than some of the monuments themselves.

Now for me, music is indeed a spiritual experience. It may be hypnotizing or violently stimulating. I listen to and appreciate all kinds of music, from folk, to jazz, to classical, to hard core rock.

If I had to define a major depression in a single sentence, I would describe it as a "genetic/neurochemical disorder requiring a strong environmental trigger whose characteristic manifestation is an inability to appreciate sunsets.

Small things with great love. . . . It is not how much we do, but how much love we put into the doing. And it is not how much we give, but how much love we put into the giving. To God there is nothing small.

psychological research clearly shows that people who feel underappreciated tend to resent criticism and ignore the advice they're given.

small rewards encourage internal motivation because they are really a form of recognition rather than material gain, signaling that the corporation or boss appreciates the employee's internal desire to improve and contribute.

As messed up as my life was at times, I greatly appreciated my own unique life.

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take a moment to appreciate it, because tomorrow it will only be a memory.

Live your life as if there are no miracles and everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein

On the whole I consider the constant need for delight and diversion in completely new things to be a sign of pettiness, lack of inner life, of estrangement from nature, and of a mediocre or defective gift of understanding.

Je bescheidener meine Wohnung war, um so eleganter wirkte alle Eleganz auf mich, um so künstlerischer erschienen mir Schöpfungen aus dem Gebiet der Kunst, und Freunde und Liebe kamen mir um so freundlicher und liebenswürdiger vor.

Gratitude is a way of seeing ourselves as recipients of blessings rather than demanders of rights.

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.

Life itself is too great a miracle for us to make so much fuss about potty little reversals of what we pompously assume to be the natural order.

There's the satisfaction of Eng-Lang-and-Lit; somebody else has said everything for you, and said it better.