Quotes About Appreciation

Pretty much I don't regret anything that has happened in my life. One thing is I wish I could have spent more time with my mama and my pa.

Life may not be perfect, at least it offered moments that were perfect enough.

We're all - all of us - a minute away from dying. If you're aware of that, life becomes a little more precious. Also, you have a slightly different outlook. It's not so much "gimme, gimme."

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you.

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.

I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.

I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.

One man came up to me at a taco stand and said, "I have no idea who you are, but I can see everyone is staring at you, so you must be somebody. I just wanted to tell you that you are not that special. You're no more special than me." I looked at him with a mouth full of food and managed to say, "Thanks. I agree," and promptly asked the waitress for a to go box.

I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.

Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.

If I can help Americans to understand China, and the Chinese to learn about the United States, even a little, I will feel very rewarded. I

What if, when you woke up in the morning, ALL you had LEFT was what you had thanked God for the night before?

Sometimes wonderful things did happen, out of the blue and for no apparent reason. And what else could you do but go along with it and just be grateful that the person you loved more than anyone else in the world loved you too?

write down all of the things out in the world that have arrested your attention lately, that have glimmered at you in some resonant way. Set them next to each other. See what happens.

the looniness of the long distance runner - pounding along country lanes, so anxious to lop off seconds he never stops to marvel at a field of buttercups or a flock of geese against the sky.

I shall mention in passing just one example of a gift from the Arabs that I for one am rather grateful for: coffee -- especially as it was originally banned in Europe as a 'Muslim drink.

Buy me stuff and I'll be nicer

I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.

The more we narrow the definition of beauty, the more beauty we shut out of our lives.

That worked great! Thank you so much. What next?" "I don't know. I didn't expect you to live through it." "Oh.

Find the stories you love, and don't ever let anyone tell you you're wrong for loving them. If

I challenge anybody in their darkest moment to write what they're grateful for, even stupid little things like green grass or a friendly conversation with somebody on the elevator. You start to realize how rich you are.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid they told me I was being funny.