Quotes About Appreciation

Una de las cosas más trágicas que conozco de la naturaleza humana es que todos tendemos a posponer la vida. Todos soñamos con algún mágico jardín de rosas en el horizonte, en vez de disfrutar de las rosas que florecen hoy delante de nuestra ventana».

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Tenemos que desarrollar una mejor valoración de los dones en nuestra vida. Y si sabemos apreciar lo bueno que hay en nuestra vida, eso bueno va a crecer.

The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasures of life, I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars dancing in a moonlit sky or soaking in the sunbeams of a glorious summer morning.

Enjoy every morning and appreciate each day you have on Earth. Take bold risks yet hedge them with common sense. Balance living like there is no tomorrow with behaving like you'll live forever.

Stop spending so much time chasing life's big pleasures while you neglect the little ones. Slow things down. Enjoy the beauty and sacredness of all that is around you.

Stevens, who knew that mouth could do more thana rgue? You're a true blue friend, a red-hot lady and all that other good yearbook shit. You've got a big heart and I've got an even bigger...you know. So we're both winners. KG

The omnisecular spirit keeps the old with the new also. Nothing at all has suffered erasure. There is life not of our time. He calls ungainly bodies As beautiful as the grace of horses. He is weary of nothing; he watches air-planes; he watches pelicans.

Being temporary doesn't make something matter any less, because the point isn't for how long, the point is that it happened.

And even the aches and pains that had joined her as she got older--she'd liked them. They were reminders--the back, the knee, the achy wrists--they were even friends: Feel that now, Emer. You're alive.

But it wasn't boring like this; I loved it, sitting there doing nothing. There wasn't even anything to look at except the houses across the road.

The object we love seems to us more beautiful than it is:

Dogs remember every favor you ever do for them and store those events in a memory bank titled Why My Human Is A God.

So on this day of reflection I say again, thank you for going on this journey with me. I'll see you at the movies.

How quickly we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story Nightfall, about the planet where the stars were visible only once in a thousand years. So awesome was the sight that it drove people mad. We who can see the stars every night glance up casually at the cosmos and then quickly down again, searching for a Dairy Queen.

As the man says in the play, for this relief, much thanks.

Saturday Night Fever was Gene Siskel's favorite movie, and he watched it at least seventeen times. We all have movies like that, titles that transcend ordinary categories of good and bad and penetrate straight to our hearts.

Pop pollution has an effect on musical appreciation comparable to pornography on sex. All that is beautiful, special and full of love is replaced by a grinding mechanism. Just as porn addicts lose the capacity for real sexual love, so do pop addicts lose the capacity for genuine musical experience.

Like the pleasure of friendship, the pleasure in beauty is curious: it aims to understand its object, and to value what it finds.

Once we start to celebrate ugliness, we become ugly to.

it is not the taste considered in itself, that we hold to our lips, and you can no more understand the virtues of a wine through a blind tasting than you could understand the virtues of a woman through a blindfold kiss.

When I put my trust in a critic, this is tantamount to saying that I defer to his judgement, even when I have made no judgement of my own. But my own judgement waits upon experience. It is only when I have heard the piece in question, in the moment of appreciation, that my borrowed opinion can actually become a judgement of mine.

El vino no es sólo un objeto de placer, sino un objeto de conocimiento, y el placer depende del conocimiento

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