Quotes About Appreciation

Let's enjoy the beautiful things we can see, my dear, and not think about those we cannot.

This holiday season has taught me the value of presence over presents. It is good to be home.

If we do not feel grateful for what we already have, what makes us think we would be happy with more?

praise and recognition based upon performance are the oxygen of the human spirit

It is great to get praise from the lips of taciturnity.

Go! And remember! Zebra is fine creature to admire, but you do not have to ride it.

Value the friends God gives you.

The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'Well done'.

Forbid that I should walk through Thy beautiful world with unseeing eyes.

Forbid that I should walk through Thy beautiful world with unseeing eyes; Forbid that the lure of the market-place should ever entirely steal my heart away from the love of the open acres and the green trees; Forbid that under the low roof of workshop or office or study I should ever forget Thy great overarching sky: Forbid that when all Thy creatures are greeting the morning with songs and shouts of joy, I alone should wear a dull and sullen face.

All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.

I wondered if they got to enjoy being normal, to know just how terrific it was, or whether it was just invisible to them like air?

Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or story, and find his words so valuable after all that when he confessed his apprehensions she would explain why they were in fact the very things that made him precious to her ... and to Western Civilization! There was no such girl, the simple truth being.

No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast results?

Quoting Miss Harty:] "People come here from all over the country and fall in love with Savannah. Then they move here and pretty soon they're telling us how much more lively and prosperous Savannah could be if we only knew what we had and how to take advantage of it. I call these people 'Gucci carpetbaggers.

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements in that sentence are connected by an and and not by a but.

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.

Having seen this reproduction, one can go to the National Gallery to look at the original and discover what the reproduction lacks. Alternatively one can forget about the quality of the reproduction and simply be reminded, when one sees the original, that it is a famous painting of which somewhere one has already seen a reproduction. But in either case the uniqueness of the original now lies in it being the original of a reproduction.

Today we see the art of the past as nobody saw it before. We actually perceive it in a different way.

Yet, although every image embodies a way of seeing, our perception or appreciation of an image depends also upon our own way of seeing.

The greatest happiness in life is the knowledge that we are loved and valued for what we are, not for what we have or what we can do.

The greatest pleasure in life is to be understood, is it not? But who in the world does an artist like you or me find to understand

I want to venture a hypothesis that, roughly expressed, goes like this: you cannot learn to love yourself until you find something in the world to love; no matter what it is. A dog, a garden, a tree,a flight of birds, a friend...Because what we love in ourselves is ourselves loving.

No poem lovely as a tree, she said (though I'd never once thought to compare)