Quotes About Appreciation

there are only a few obvious things that I notice as primarily beautiful: women, spring evenings, music at night, the sea;

Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes and grasshoppers and beetles and potato bugs, ants . . . and put them in a jar and look at them. They have the sweetest little faces and the cutest expressions. After we'd looked at them all we wanted to, we'd put them in the yard and let them go on about their business.

Mrs. Threadgoode pulled something out of the Cracker Jack box and all of a sudden her eyes lit up. "Oh Evelyn, look! Here's my prize. It's a little miniature chicken… just what I like!" and she held it out for her friend to see.

Oswald welcomed the cooler weather because in the following days he discovered it brought winter sunsets, and the river sunsets were different from anything else he had ever seen. They mesmerized him.

Almost losing one person you love shines a bright spotlight on life, and suddenly strips you of everything but your real feelings.

There are 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

It's kind of funny, really, all these years, everybody has been so busy trying to figure what life was all about, and all the while, it was just something for us to enjoy.

taste doesn't cost a dime, but if you don't have it, you can't buy it for a million dollars

I'm telling you, Dena, when you live long enough to see your children begin to look at you with different eyes, and you can look at them not as your children, but as people, it's worth getting older with all the creaks and wrinkles." PACKAGE FOR ALICE POINT CLEAR, ALABAMA PETE THE MAILMAN WALKED TO SOOKIE'S DOOR AND KNOCKED JUST AS Lenore was coming up the stairs with a sack of B & B pecans she had picked up for Sookie.

Does a flower really have beauty? Does a fruit really have beauty? No: they have only color and form And existence. Beauty is the name of something that doesn't exist But that I give to things in exchange for the pleasure they give me. It means nothing. So why do I say about things: they're beautiful?

Pensar uma flor é vê-la e cheirá-la E comer um fruto é saber-lhe o sentido.

Wise is the man who monotonizes his existence, for then each minor incident seems a marvel.

And the palace perched high in the woods will be more beautiful for those who see it from the valley than for those who, imprisoned in its rooms, forget it. I take comfort in these reflections, since I can't take comfort in life.

Through rational thought I can recognize that a man is a living being just like me, but for my true, involuntary self he has always had less importance than a tree, if the tree is more beautiful.

Sabio es quien monotoniza la existencia, puesto que entonces cada pequeño incidente tiene un privilegio de maravilla. El cazador de leones no tiene aventuras más allá del tercer león. Para mi cocinero monótono, una escena de bofetadas en la calle tiene siempre algo de apocalipsis modesto. Quien no ha salido nunca de Lisboa viaja al infinito en el tranvía cuando va a Bemfica77 y, si un día va a Cintra,78 siente que ha ido a Marte.

To be that with a certain knowledge, neither happy nor sad, but thankful to the sun for its brilliance and to the stars for their remoteness. To be nothing more, to have nothing more, to desire nothing further... The music of the starving beggar, the song of the blind man, the relic of the unknown vagabond, the hoof-prints in the desert of an unladen camel without a point of arrival".

Benditos sean los instantes y los milímetros y las sombras de las cosas pequeñas, aún más humildes que ellas!.

Maestro, son plácidas todas las horas que malgastamos, si al malgastarlas, cual en un jarrón, ponemos flores.

Creo que admiramos con lo de admirable que hay en nosotros y nunca he tropezado con nadie verdaderamente admirable que no supiese también ser sinceramente admirador

We were in an entirely other field by this time and in the company of white-coloured brown-coloured cows. They watched us quietly as we made a path between them and changed their attitudes slowly as if to show us all of the maps on their fat sides. They gave us to understand that they knew us personally and thought a lot of our families and I lifted my hat to the last of them as I passed her as a sign of my appreciation.

Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes.

Remember what you won't get if you don't mind, her grandfather remarked.

there never was a body that give the undertaker a tip.

The truest way to receive the gospel of Christ crucified is to cultivate a deep appreciation of the way the biblical motifs interact with each other and enlarge one another.