Quotes About Appreciation

As Mark Twain supposedly said, a classic is a book that nobody wants to read but everybody wants to have read.

A wise man who loves the peaches at home does not want to shake any other trees.

The father should take the lead in gratitude. He should lead the family on complimenting her on her meals, on her appearance, and for the work she does in keeping the home running smoothly. He should be saying "thank you" many times each day, and he should insist that his children learn to follow his example.

Collections do not leave the collector unaffected. The art of collecting results in a certain turn of mind.

A husband cannot say, "All my behavior notwithstanding, I still honor my wife, even though I never show it." Husbands must honor their wives.

The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time.

The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time. The more we say thanks, the more we find to be thankful for. And the more we find to be thankful for, the happier we become. We don't give thanks because we're happy. We are happy because we give thanks.

We do not give thanks because we are happy.  We are happy because we give thanks."   --Douglas Wood

Live each day fully, one day at a time, live time fully, for each moment could be our last.

Whenever you look in front and see a lot of people ahead of you, take time to look at the long queue behind you. Let us live a life of contentment.

Be grateful. Don't always complain about never having enough time, because I know you do. I always complain as well about the time issue, but instead be grateful you have time at all. Don't focus on the negatives, but the positives of the time you do have. What will you do with that time? That is the question you need to ask yourself.

Before now, I've always taken my mixes out to the car and listened to them in the parking lot. I still do that, but more so now I'm listening to it on the Beat box, and I think people should give it at least a listen and check it out and see what it is.

This loving person is a person who abhors waste waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.

An eminent Iranian composer, Pezhman Mosleh, has honored me with this gift (the piece of On the Threshold).

Para percibir la magia de la Realidad, ésta debe amarse de la misma forma, sin esperar restituciones por ese amor.

Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.

Sometimes you will never know the value of something,until it becomes a memory.

You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not!

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.

You never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Thank goodness for all the things you are not, thank goodness you're not something someone forgot, and left all alone in some punkerish place, like a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space.

The paradox of gifts: I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.