Quotes About Appreciation

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.

quite the same as approving of it. She wondered, for instance, how Columbus or Magellan would react if they could see them all sitting in comfortable chairs watching a movie in the sky as they crossed the ocean insulated from wind, tides, storm and distance, and without any decent sense of awe. One ought, she felt, to suffer just a little. Not much but a little.

If everything I possessed, vanished, suddenly, I'd be sorry. But I value things unpossessed. The wind, and trees, and sky and kind thoughts, much more.

Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.

It's good to have things that you love. They keep you grounded, make you realise how much you've got to lose. It's good to love people. But if you don't have anyone you can truly give your heart to, then having something that means the world to you can often act as a good stand-in

She was one of those, born not made, to whom walking in the country is a happiness in itself. She went from one interest to another, poking into streams, looking into banks and hedges for flowers and nests, loitering round farmyards....

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

I've learned how to look at things and not judge them, but respect them and use it in a way that people understand that I respect them, show them love and respect their reality.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

My wife is a lovely leathery green, the blue-tongued lizard said; Her eyes are as red as bulldog ants, lurking in holes in her head; Her body is made of the speckled grass, a violet grows on her tongue, And I could watch her for fifty years if nobody blundered along.

The grateful world is a world of joyful people.

I could not possibly love one woman, having known the holiness of all women.

After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of earth? What one moment for you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet. What's your takeaway? Fake yuppie experiences that you had to spend money on, like white water rafting or elephant rides in Thailand don't count. I want to hear some small moment from your life that proves you're really alive.

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift. That's why they call it the present. —Unknown "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." —Omar Khayyam

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift. That's why they call it the present.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." —Albert Einstein

I know you don't do what you do for medals, but there will be several coming your way.

Reed shook his head. "Pretty damned clever," he added, unable to keep admiration from his tone.

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift. That's why they call it the present. —Unknown "The

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift. That's why they call it the present. —Unknown

Thomas Paine had written, "What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.

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There are many attitudes that we all take in our lives, some of which dominate at one point in our lives and recede in another. But a life lived without gratitude is not a life properly lived. It is a life that is lived off-kilter: one in which, incapable of realizing what you have to be thankful for, you are left with nothing but your resentments and can be contented by nothing but revenge.

the objection to using stats boils down to nothing more than an irrational fear of numbers causing some to believe math somehow detracts from understanding or appreciation