Quotes About Appreciation

I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.

The world, moment by ordinary or agonizing moment, lies chock-full with its own clarifications and rewards. That such rewards most often go unnoticed keeps the artist in business.

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

I suppose all the movies I've seen will be worth nothing to me when I die. Wrong. They'll be worth something, believe me. Don't stop going to the movies.

con la franqueza característica de los soldados y de los caballeros que saben reconocer una obra de arte cuando la ven, aunque no la entiendan.

Ik ben voor geen enkele vorm van schoonheid immuun.

I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.

De mí se dirá posiblemente que soy un escritor cómico, a lo sumo. Y será cierto. No me interesa demasiado la definición que se haga de mí. No aspiro al Nobel de Literatura. Yo me doy por muy bien pagado cuando alguien se me acerca y me dice: me cagué de risa con tu libro.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Art needs to be imaginatively undressed in order to be appreciated, and so does the world.

You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.

I never confuse the cost of something with its value

Chade, I know the Fool is strange. But I like it when he comes to talk to me. He speaks in riddles, and he insults me, and makes fun of me, and gives himself leave to tell me things he thinks I should do, like wash my hair, or not wear yellow. But (...) I like him. He mocks me, but from him, it seems a kindness. He makes me feel, well, important. That he could choose me to talk to.

Sometimes thanking someone is more important to the person giving the thanks than the one who receives it.

You never miss the water until the well runs dry.

finally realizing that life was to be lived, rather than hoarded against an unseen tomorrow.

How strange to be loved simply for who I was.

there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.

Little Brother, do not treat me as if I am already dead, or dying. If you see me that way, then I would rather truly be dead. You steal the now of my life away, when you constantly fear that tomorrow will bring my death. Your fears clutch cold at me and snatch all my pleasure in the day's warmth from me.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

He wished his own respect for her was enough to make her see her own worth, and he recognized the selfishness of that wish. He could not be her entire world

Why do you chop your life into bits and give the bits names? Hours, days. It is like a rabbit. If I kill a rabit, I eat a rabbit. When you have a rabbit, you chop it up and call it bones and meat and fur and guts. And so you never have enough.

But there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have, and that was more than I'd ever had in my life.

I believe you each have something to offer the other. But you'll only value it if you discover it for yourselves.