Quotes About Appreciation

I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable.

Help is what they offer but gratitude is what they want, they roll around in it like cats in the catnip.

For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it. Mary

They may not like me, but they respect me. Respect is better than like.

What could be done? We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?

Take what the moment offers. Don't close doors. Be thankful.

There is so much beautiful in the world if you look around. You are looking only at the dirt under your feet, Jimmy. It's not good for you.

But a chair, sunlight, flowers: these are not to be dismissed. I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight. Where I am is not a prison but a privilege, as Aunt Lydia said, who was in love with either/or.

Live in the present, make the most of it, it's all you've got.

Nothing should be carelessly thrown away, not even wine from sinful places. There was no such thing as garbage, trash, or dirt, only matter that hadn't been put to a proper use.

Thank you for bringing me this fish. Thank you means: Thank you means you did something good for me. Or something you thought was good. And that good thing was giving me a fish. So that made me happy, but the part that really made me happy was that you wanted me to be happy. That's what Thank you means. No, you don't need to give me another fish. I am happy enough for now.

But Molly didn't hate men. With men, Molly was a toad-kisser. she thought any toad could be turned into a prince if he was only kissed enough, by her. I was different. I knew a toad was a toad and would remain so. The thing was to find the most congenial among the toads and learn to appreciate their finer points. You had to develop an eye for warts. I called this compromise. Molly called it cynicism

in this world you have to take your bits and ends of kindness where you can find them, as they do not grow on trees.

I will stop living life for a future happiness that does not and may never exist. I will live for now and stop wasting my time. Ever moment I live can be as beautiful as a fantasy. Every second of life is precious. I vow to stop wasting my time on these dreams that turn my life into a nightmare. I vow to live, to be mindful, to pay attention to life and hold it hard to my heart. Every beat another second going by.

There is no respect for hidden music

alguien a quien aborrecemos nos hace un favor, despreciamos tanto a la persona como el favor.

thinking: a rather prosaic, low-tech concept, easily forgotten and routinely underrated. But

as the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep,so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily , to appreciate more lovingly , our own.

But, hell, I wouldn't have grudged him your body. I know how little bodies mean - especially women's bodies. But I do grudge him your heart and your dear, hard, unscrupulous mind. He doesn't want your mind, the fool, and I don't want your body. I can buy women cheap. But I do want your mind and your heart, and I'll never have them.

What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia.

Well--you know how the Wilkes are. They are kind of queer about music and books and scenery. Mother says it's because their grandfather came from Virginia. She says Virginians set quite a store by such things.

Sometimes Frank sighed, thinking he had caught a tropic bird, all flame and jewel color, when a wren would have served him just as well. In fact, much better

Looking closer can make something beautiful

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring