Quotes About Appreciation

When I was reading the Bible, I came across the word 'meek.' It means to be humble. I asked God, I want to become meek, allow me to become meek. About two months later I was struck with cancer. I realized this was God testing me. If you want to become appreciative, and humble, and meek, I'll strip you of everything.

This sort of day makes indoor work seem shameful. So working outside, whether in the garden or the woods or on the front porch..., is a sacrament.

I always knew the importance of it, since I was three or four years old my mother used to feed me wine and water. I grew up with wine as liquid food.

There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.

The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.

She had said: "How beautiful the world is, Eben. It was never made for anything but beauty — whether we lived now, or long ago." We had that beauty together. We never lost it.

You want to know something? You're all right, Andrew. You and Sara and Sean. You're all all right, have been all through these last few days, and I won't forget it." "Oh, sure." He put on his best Cockney accent. "We'ave been blooming wonders, we have. Three right ream and rorty coves." "Well, you have been—in spite of that shoful accent that you shouldn't even try.

It always looked to me like she was smiling. In fact, I know she was. Lots if things smile, like a flower to the sun. And one thing sure. I knew that just like I could smile to see Pinky, she sure could smile to see me.

Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.

I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.

Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated.

Inspiration is everywhere. If you're ready to appreciate it, an ant can be one of the wonders of the universe.1 —Author Unknown

If all would play first violin, we could not obtain an orchestra. Therefore esteem every musician in his place.

Imagínate un mundo en el que sólo hay luz. Si nunca has experimentado la oscuridad, ¿cómo podrías comprender y apreciar la luz? Es el contraste entre luz y oscuridad lo que lleva a un conocimiento más profundo.

When we focus on someone's light, we magnify it.

It is the absence of something that best teaches its value and meaning.

Only by courageously embracing darkness can we understand and fully appreciate the light.

The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each others worth.

I never realized how much water a person used until I started packing it up from the creek---water for washing clothes, for washing yourself,for cooking,washing dishes. That's all I seem to do all day is pack water and then dump it out.

Recognition is powerful, as long as it's authentic and specific. Whatever their level on the inverted pyramid, employees wants to feel needed and valued.

You are a very beautiful girl, Rosita," he said. "Thank you, senor" Rosita answered.

Why should the Mass of Sainte Cécile bend my thoughts wandering among caverns whose walls blaze with ragged masses of virgin silver? What was it in the roar and turmoil of Broadway at six o'clock that flashed before my eyes the picture of a still Breton forest where sunlight filtered through spring foliage and Sylvia bent, half curiously, half tenderly, over a small green lizard, murmuring: "To think that this also is a little ward of God!