Quotes About Appreciation

The moment slipped away, but because it wasn't perfect, it was the most perfect one she could remember having

It never occurred to me before, but there could have easily been a world with no buses, no horns honking, no red lights, no shopping carts, no gum stick to the bottom of benches downtown. For that matter I guess there also could have been no sun, no trees, and no ocean. None of those things had to exist, I guess. It makes me feel lucky that they do.

I'm thinking of things I like about living more than I realized; insane things considering how trivial they are. I like Burger King fries. I like watching my dad listening to Hall & Oates. The smell of new tennis balls. I love this old collection of unicorn stickers I have in a cookie tin in my closet. Maybe this is life flashing before your eyes; maybe it's supposed to be mundane.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

Always eat every meal as though it was your last.

You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else.

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.

Savor the little moments, son, that's my advice. They're what life is. All the little things that happen while you're waiting for something else.

A sensitive nose isn't always that great a gift. Plenty of smells are better unsmelt.

Happiness can be like a butterfly you chase after. Always one flutter of wings ahead of you, but then if you stop chasing what you think should make you happy, you can feel the warmth of the sunshine on your shoulders, and the fragrance of your favorite flower is in the air. That butterfly might even drift close enough to let you feel the flutter of its wings.

He didn't know what he'd done to deserve her love, but he thanked the Lord he had it. Then again, when was love ever given because it was deserved? Respect and honor were earned. Awards were deserved. But love was a gift from one heart to another.

Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

We thought the boy might want this.

I'm not going to waste their kindness.

Sylvie had almost missed this life with this man, and because of this near-miss, she appreciated their moments together, even as they accumulated.

I know people not from here probably don't understand our feeling for these hills. Our love for land not spectacular. Our mountains are not like Western ones, those jagged awesome ones, your eyes always pulled to their tops. But that is the difference, I decided. In the West, the mountains are mostly horizon. We live in our mountains. It's not just the tops, but the sides that hold us.

What it love, you ask. Dear child, love is like the light and there are two kinds, the bursting fireworks of the moment and the solid, fixed stars that sometimes become obscured in the heavens, but are always there, year after year, for a lifetime. You must experience the first in order to appreciate the second.

There are different kinds of love, Sarah. I feel one kind of love for your father. A special kind. Another kind for Warren. And still a different kind for you children.' She smiled at me. 'Heaven rue the day we can't feel love for one another. I wouldn't want to live in such a world, would you?

I love the fact that there are also women out there that don't have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too.

So often we miss life's beauty because we are preoccupied by its flaws.

People look for greatness only in the extraordinary and completely overlook the wonder of the ordinary.

And you, my friends! So few of you remain That you are dearer daily. I rejoice In you. How short the road has become, That once appeared the longest road of all.

I marvel at everything as if it were new.