Quotes About Appreciation

There is a part of me that wishes you would tell me what I want to hear, but I appreciate that you are being honest about the struggle. It will do," she said. "For now.

There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.

It's lovely when writers I like like each other.

My ideal relationship with a book is that I will read it for the first time entirely unspoiled. I won't know anything whatsoever about it, it will be wonderful, it will be exciting and layered and complex and I will be excited by it, and I will re-read it every year or so for the rest of my life, discovering more about it every time, and every time remembering the circumstances in which I first read it.

She felt her strong young body that she had never appreciated when she had it, constantly worrying that she didn't meet standards of beauty and not understanding how standards of health were so much more important.

I don't know how I can ever thank you,' David said, struggling into that ridiculous mac again. 'No need. What you can't pay back you pay forward,' Abby said.

There's a line in Delany's Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand where he talks about re-reading and says that this time the gleam of torchlight reflected in the water was a different gold. That about sums it up. I love the first re-read of a book, when I know what is coming and am not anxious either about what will happen or whether it will continue to be good, but it isn't yet as familiar as an old slipper.

I may not always have this, but I have this now," I thought. "I am perfectly happy in this moment and I know it.

I can see the beauty of the world - a weed growing out of a crack, a sunrise, the glory of art.' He takes comfort in even the grain of wood in the arms of the chair, the gentle coarseness of the linen weave of his shirt, the dust motes dancing in the beam of sunlight, the smell of Marsilio's fresh bread.

I got to help make dinner. You can't imagine the pleasure of wiping mushrooms and grating cheese when you haven't had a chance to do it for a long time. Then eating food you have cooked, or help cook, always tastes so much better. Auntie

sempre a essas do mel eu dei louvor de meu agradecimento. Renego não, o que me é de doces usos: graças a Deus toda a vida tive estima a toda meretriz, mulheres que são as mais nossas irmãs, a gente precisa melhor delas, dessas belas bondades.

Quando nada acontece, há um milagre que não estamos vendo.

Sem o momento, não existiriam nem a antecipação nem a lembrança, mas como os dois são melhores que o momento!

Sem conseguir resolver para onde olhar durante todo esse tempo, Dafé se admirou de haver tanta ciência naquela gente comum, se admirou também de nunca ter visto nos livros que pessoas como essas pudessem possuir conhecimentos e habilidades tão bonitos, achou até mesmo a mãe uma desconhecida, misteriosa e distante, em seu saber antes nunca testemunhado. Quantos estudos não haveria ali, como ficavam todos bonitos fazendo ali suas tarefas, agora também ela ia ser pescadora!

The problem with the heart is how it can have so many opposite feelings coursing through it all at the same time. It's really an inconsistent thing- appreciating something one minute and hating it the next.

You don't understand how much light you have until the lights go out.

Mom put dense cheddar bread into a bag for a man who said this was his wife's favorite - he'd driven all the way from New Jersey to buy it because today was their anniversary. Several women in the store jabbed their husbands on hearing this. I hung my head - Peter Terris wouldn't cross the street to buy me a Twinkie.

I'm working hard to have a good life. You don't need fancy things to feel good. You can hug a puppy. You can buy a can of paint and surround yourself with color. You can plant a flower and watch it grow. You can decide to trust people, the right people. You can decide to start over and let other people start over, too.

You don't understand how much light you've got until the lights go out

but Reba taught me to be grateful no matter what. I looked up at the blue sky.

It's like getting an extraordinary meal after you've been eating junk food for a long time. The taste just sweeps through your sensibilities, bringing all-out contentment, and the sheer goodness of it makes up for every bad meal you ever had.

Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve.

Gratitude is a natural outcome of mindfulness. It is also a way to become mindful. We often shut out natural beauty by becoming mindlessly absorbed in the chatter and worry of small mind with its endless self-absorbed attachments to past and future.

As you go about your day, remember to notice something that you've never thought of being grateful for.