Quotes About Appreciation

Books are not cake—you and I can devour the same book, and there it remains for us and others to devour all over again.

Teaching students to value literary masterpieces is our best hope of awakening them to the infinite capacities and complexities of human experience, of helping them acknowledge and accept complexity and ambiguity, and of making them love and respect the language that allows us to smuggle out, and send one another, our urgent, eloquent dispatches from the prison of self.

I think about what I've lost instead of thinking about what I have.

In spring, Granny would send me off to pick bluets, violets, and windflowers. As the weeks passed, she'd ask for yellow lady's slippers and bleeding hearts, then roses and white rhododendron clusters that grew along the stream. She'd always seem to know the day when the mayflies danced and died. When I'd come back from whatever venture she'd sent me on, she'd talk about how life was precious.

Don't let a day go by without seeing some wonder in it, Cadi. Stop moping around the house wishing for things to change between ye and yer mama. Go out and see what's there for ye." God was there. God was everywhere.

Michael saw God in everything. He saw him in the wind and the rain and the earth. He saw him in the crops that were growing. He saw God in the nature of the animals that inhabited their land. He saw him in the flames of their evening fire.

She didn't make life easy on those who loved her, but she was worth it.

Books can be bought. A house can be rebuilt, darlin. You can't be replaced.

All day Annie had watched family members, friends, and neighbors wander around the garden, and she kept thinking how they were all like flowers. Some were poppies, blooming bold and brief. Others were like ornamental vines, passionflowers, or trumpets. Still others were shy violets and wallflowers. And all together, what a beautiful world they made. Everyone different, everyone amazing to behold.

J'ai toujours eu limpression quil mappréciait et recherchait mon amitié avec ce mélange de nostalgie et d'agressivité qui lui était propre.

Enthusiasm. Order: self-organization. Think in terms of others' interests. Questions. Key issue. Silence: listen. Sincerity: deserve confidence. Knowledge of my business. Appreciation and praise. Smile: happiness. Remember names and faces. Service and prospecting. Closing the sale: action.

La mauvaise musique est jouée tous les jours, la bonne ignorée.

Don't belittle today's moment—the "now"—by trying to move into another metron prematurely

You have to appreciate life before you want to preserve it, she said. And it's the survivors who maintain the most light and poignant hold upon the beauties of living. Women know this more often than men because birth is the reflection of death.

Have you noticed, Stil, how beautiful the young women are this year?

The gift is the blessing of the giver.

Le véritable bonheur, c'était cela. La possibilité de s'arrêter, ne serait-ce que pour un moment.

See how little I value my water when it is taken by animals.

The Fremen have a saying they credit to Shai-hulud, Old Father Eternity," he said. "They say: 'Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.

If you need something to worship, then worship life — all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!

El regalo es la bendición de quien lo hace»

If you need something to worship, then worship life—all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!

tomorrow has not happened and may never happen. This moment here is the only observable time and place for us in our universe. I tell you to savor this moment and understand what it teachers.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.