Quotes About Appreciation

How lucky am I to be right here, How lucky am I indeed. A lifetime of love and song and pie, What more could a person need?

Unless you're completely exploded, there's always something to be grateful for.

But enough of that--here I am. Hineni! How marvelously beautiful it is today. He stopped in the overgrown yard, shut his eyes in the sun, against flashes of crimson, and drew in the odors of catalpa-bells, soil, honeysuckle, wild onions, and herbs.

But the best-treated, most favored and intelligent part of any society is often the most ungrateful. Ingratitude, however, is its social function.

I would as lief look upon a piece of pastrami-stained paper as on the face of Alfred Kazin.

John Hawkes is an extraordinary writer. I have always admired his books. They should he more widely read.

Incerc sa le explic parintilor mei ca viata e un dar buclucas. La început ai tendinta sa-l supraestimezi crezand ca viata pe care ai primit-o este vesnica. Apoi, dimpotriva, il subestimezi, gasind ca-i o porcarie, scurta de nu-ntelegi nimic din ea si pe care uneori ti-ar veni s-o arunci de sa nu se vada. Abia catre sfarsit pricepi ca nu-i vorba de nici un dar, ci de un simplu imprumut. Pe care trebuie sa incerci sa-l meriti.

B]eauty is always an affair of knowledge.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Pocas veces pensamos en lo que tenemos; pero siempre en lo que nos falta (Schopenhauer)

A woman needs to be told that you would sacrifice anything for her. A man needs to be told he is being useful. When the man or woman strays from that formula, the other loses trust. When trust is lost, communication falls apart.

Adults are starved for a kind word. When you understand the power of honest praise (as opposed to bullshitting, flattery, and sucking up), you realize that withholding it borders on immoral. If you see something that impresses you, a decent respect to humanity insists you voice your praise.

If you see something that impresses you, a decent respect to humanity insists you voice your praise.

over the years I have cultivated a unique relationship with failure. I invite it. I survive it. I appreciate it. And then I mug the shit out of it.

I have cultivated a unique relationship with failure. I invite it. I survive it. I appreciate it. And then I mug the shit out of it. Failure always brings something valuable with it. I don't let it leave until I extract that value.

When you understand the power of honest praise (as opposed to bullshitting, flattery, and sucking up), you realize that withholding it borders on immoral.

Better a thousand times the Arab untouched. The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn.

With the current emphasis on multiculturalism and appreciation for the cultural diversity that exists in much of the world, and the importance of a culture's values in its self-definition, it should not surprise us that there is a movement toward accepting all cultures' values as equally valid, which is the definition of cultural relativism.

Contentment is being satisfied and grateful for what you have instead of grumbling about what you don't have. It is a spiritual quality that adds peace and joy to our lives without the feeling that we need something more.

Hey," he said, "you won't ever meet a man who likes women better than me. They're the best thing on the planet. And I don't just mean horizontal. Women hold the world together.

openly desirous of my company, so alight with manifest appreciation of every angle of my being.

That is one of the tragedies of aging, appreciating how many good and interesting people have passed by unknown.

And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag.

The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.

She smiled, turning toward Alek. You don't know what a friend you have in Dylan.