Quotes About Appreciation

I'm with a man who's evolved enough to look at my body and see it as more beautiful because of the journey it has taken.

A calamity, a catastrophe- it changes everything, doesn't it? It makes you aware that you cannot be indifferent toward your life. You cannot simply give away your life.

Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.

She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn't have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?

Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must.

Lena studied the faces of the girls on the sidelines. She could tell that Kostos owned the lust of what few local teenage girls there were in Oia, but instead he chose to dance with all the grandmothers, all the women who had raised him, who had poured into him the love they couldn't spend on their own absent children and grandchildren.

Treasure in such large amounts stopped feeling precious

The thing you had had and loved and taken for granted caught up with you all at once and for no sensible reason suddenly cost more than you could afford.

she looked up at the stars and gave Tibby thanks. She didn't have to throw her thoughts far to know they reached her.

Why not celebrate what you had had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that ended.

Maybe happiness didn't have to be about big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures.

You have been my friend,"                  replied Charlotte. "That in itself                  is a tremendous thing."        Ã¢â'¬â€E. B. White

It's natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily, most gracefully. So here's me asking you to please not make that mistake.

That seemed a sad thing about human nature - how much more time we spend thinking about what we don' have, or have lost, than about what we have.

We don't often notice the people who look after us, do we? Though we'd miss them if they weren't there

Was it only possible truly to enjoy something if you knew there was a danger that it might be taken away?

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." —To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

To look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.

Well, that was very kind of Claudia, but I didn't want the twines.

And yay for the Sitter of the Month!

Today was the kind of day when I couldn't imagine anything more worthwhile!

together. "Thank you for being such polite

My mother says I am a pack rat. So what? Pack rats are probably very nice animals. And I bet they're prepared for anything. I know I am.

I had a lot to be thankful for.