Quotes About Appreciation

He is not the best. But he is the best I ever had.

Her head jerked around. It's so unlikely to be alive, isn't it? The right temperature, and gravity, the right atoms combining at the precise moment, you'd think it would never happen. She stood looking at a painting with a hand to her cheek, then watched the cat making its way across the sofa toward the bird. Life, it's so unlikely, she said, then turned to me again. It's so much better than we think, isn't it?

HE WAS NOT THE BEST BUT HE WAS THE BEST I EVER HAD

Strange to be almost fifty, no? I feel like I just understood how to be young." "Yes! It's like the last day in a foreign country. You finally figure out where to get coffee, and drinks, and a good steak. And then you have to leave. And you won't ever be back.

but I think you water your wine; the wonder of life is in its small absurdities, so easily overlooked.

Less cannot imagine Delaware being a miracle to anyone.

I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.

With the wonder and bitterness of someone pardoned for a crime she did not commit I come back to marriage and friends, to pink fringed hollyhocks; come back to my desk, books, and chair.

must love them for themselves

If the earth could feed itself and us without rain, and if we conquered the weather and declared permanent sun, would we not miss grey days and summer storms?

He heard a match being struck, the hiss of a gas flame. Then the clanging of a pot, the woman's breathing, the rustle water filling a vessel. He smelled bread. He closed his eyes. I love this world, he thought, and his eyes filled with tears.

He heard a match being struck, the hiss of a gas flame. Then the clanging of a pot, the woman's breathing, the rustle of water filling a vessel. He smelled bread. He closed his eyes. I love this world, he thought, and his eyes filled with tears.

You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

everything has it's beauty but not everyone sees it

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

Just because people throw it out and don't have any use for it, doesn't mean it's garbage.

I always notice flowers.

I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art. The best art are those dime novels. People will put those books in a museum one day. Artists will make paintings of them. They're beautiful. And for everyone. That's how I want my art to be.

I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art.

A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.

Thank God for the little things I do have, because I do not ask Him for much.

Sometimes it is the ones we love the most are what we value the most.

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.