Quotes About Appreciation

The sad thing about boredom is that one learns to value it only when it is exploded by a disaster, or the threat of one.

Why do you chop your life into bits and give the bits names? Hours, days. It is like a rabbit. If I kill a rabbit, 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.

Like a flower pressed flat and dried, we try to hold it still and say, this is exactly how it was the day I first saw it.

I do not disparage any man's life. Consider my own, and tell me what height I look down from.

Was not that truly the greatest benefit of wealth, that it allowed one to treat family and friends to what they deserved?

Be with the woman you love, while you can.

When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have to enjoy.

Some say 'a dog' or 'a horse' as if every one of them is like every other. I've heard a man call a mare he had owned for seven years 'it' as if he were speaking of a chair. I've never understood that. One does not have to be Witted to know the companionship of a beast, and to know that the friendship of an animal is every bit as rich and complicated as that of a man or woman.

You know your duty and you are doing it. It isn't your fault if Althea can't appreciate that.

When I was younger, it was like life was a beautiful gift, wrapped in exquisite paper and adorned with ribbons. And I loved it, even though all I knew of it was the outside of the package. But in the last year or so, I've finally started to see there is something even better inside the package. I'm learning to see past the fancy wrappings, to the heart of things.

William] Coxe expresses...both the pedestrian's advantage of complete freedom of movement, and the inspiring effect of the combination of continual change of scene with maximum time for appreciation that characterises the mobile gaze of the pedestrian traveller. If not a peripatetic by profession, Coxe is clearly one by choice.

This is golden, Katie thought as they rumbled down the freeway eating fast-food tacos. I love being "us".

Do you see how we're drinking out of lovely, uniquely decorated china cups? Mine is different from yours, but they're both fine china. We're not drinking our tea out of Styrofoam or throwaway paper cups. It's like that with you. You're not a Styrofoam or throwaway paper girl. God made you to be a lovely, uniquely designed, fine china cup. That's how He sees you, and that's how I see you.

I decided then that some secret delights will never be understood by the male species. Such joys are best shared only between girlfriends and should never be revealed to the unappreciative.

There are two words that you should use frequently in your youth: ´sorry´ and ´thank-you´. Use the first one as often as possible, so that on your death bed all that you have to say to your friends is ´thank-you!´.

Take it and be thankful.

Appreciation is a big component of a succesful marriage.

So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all by myself. Reread my favorite novel. Buy eight dozen roses from the best florist in town--the super expensive ones, the ones that smell like roses rather than merely looking like them--and put them all over my apartment. Take a good long look at everyone I love.

So she begins to love herself, to love her own flesh, to love her own genius. She begins to deserve herself.

Collin admired this man a minute more, unable to remove his eyes from the reflection, barely even remembering to breathe. He never noticed the slender, short brunette standing behind his shoulder, also taking in his reflection, until she whistled in appreciation.

not letting me give up. • All of the teachers, professors, and writing professionals who have, over the years, offered instruction and support. • My editor David

Thank God I could say that I had truly enjoyed the journey, because if I had saved all of my joy for the destination, I would have missed it. We are all so focused on getting "there," but you have to be careful. Sometimes, I sense a lot of times, "there" ends up feeling different than you expected.

To call something unremarkable simply because it happens every day and is commonly available is harmful to the enthusiasm and depth with which we can live.

The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasure of life. I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars dancing in moonlit sky or soaking in the sunbeams of a glorious summer morning.