Quotes About Appreciation

Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.

The tracks of cattle to a drinking-place, A green stone lying sideways in a ditch, Or any common sight, the transfigured face Of a beauty that the world did not touch.

Sometimes, I think that I concerned myself so much with the possibility of their loss that I never truly took pleasure in the fact of their existence.

The worst thing you can do as a writer is waste people's time.

Only an idiot asks questions like "Have you read all of these books?" or "Have you listened to all of those CDs?" Seriously, there should be a number that one can call under those circumstances, after which a squad of big blokes will arrive at one's door and beat the questioning fool unconscious with a pristine copy of À la recherche du temps perdu , or that collection of the Complete Works of Beethoven that was just too cheap to pass up.

Of their friendship, Montaigne wrote: 'If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.' Louis touched his fingers to the page. Yes , he thought. Yes .

To those who are themselves unhappy, the contentment of others can sometimes be mistaken for tedium.)

He'd eat it, though, and not just because he was hungry. He'd have eaten it even if Hayley Conyer had force-fed him caviar and foie gras during their meeting. He'd eat it because his wife had prepared it for him.

There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may,—light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, -- light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.

It is strange how few people make more than a casual cult of enjoying Nature. And yet the earth is actually and literally the mother of us all. One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.

We all have moments when we think nobody sees us. When we feel like we have to act out or be somebody else to get noticed. But somebody notices, Topher. Somebody sees. Somebody out there probably thinks you're the greatest thing in the whole world. Don't ever think you're not good enough.

It's not the last day that matters the most. It's the ones in between. The ones you get the chance to look back on. They're the carnation days. They may not stand out the most at first, but they stay with you the longest.

Awakening is remembering to enjoy. The more delicate the enjoyment, the greater the awakening.

You can easily recognize the good parts of your life because they are starkly outlined in crap.

The gift is you.

Key Largo... I could have stayed on that picture for the rest of my life. I adored it.

Life is too short. It's too precious. We have to live in this world, but we don't have to wallow in it. We don't have to fill our lives with all of this darkness.

I don't want to die, obviously, but really, the wonder of life is amplified by the fact that it ends.

Too many people go through life without pausing to enjoy what they have.

Life is so beautiful and special, I can't believe I ever let myself forget that

I suppose I will try to enjoy my life now while I have it. Who knows what's going to happen in the future?

I learned that life, it's beautiful to be alive. I saw a lot of people dead there. When I got out of there, I was happy I was out, happy I was alive.