Quotes About Appreciation

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.

It is a luxury to be understood.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it... -Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are immensed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who ever could clutch it?

Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay

My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me.

Never miss an opportunity of noticing anything of beauty ...

I will receive from them not what they have but what they are.

if we shall take the good we find,asking no questions,we shall have heaping measures.

Every[one] I meet is in some way my superior.

We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!

a good reader makes a good book

Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

Turn the eye upside down, by looking at the landscape through your legs, and how agreeable is the picture, though you have seen it any time these twenty years!