Quotes About Appreciation

Everyone has to feel like they matter.

this huge, sprawling place had taken me in—had let me live there. This is what I feel almost every time I see it from the sky. I felt

From the corner of his eye, he watched his sister; he thought she was a good driver. He liked her bulkiness, the way she filled her seat and drove with such authority. He wished he could tell her this; he wished he could say something more than that she was great. He finally said, 'Vicky, we didn't turn out so bad, you know.

He was watching her, leaning back in the chair with his arms crossed. His face was serious and kind; she saw he wasn't making fun. He spoke softly, his head bent forward with concern. "A woman should learn to take a compliment gracefully," he said.

he rode with the window partly open because he loved the smell of the pines and the heavy salt air, and in the winter he loved the smell of the cold.

Al ver Nueva York por la ventanilla, sentí lo que he sentido casi siempre cuando vuelvo a Nueva York en avión: asombro y gratitud a esta inmensa ciudad por haberme acogido, por haberme permitido vivir en ella.

Olive finally said, leaning forward in her chair, "Here's what I think, young lady. I think you're doin' excellent." Then she sat back. What a thing love was. Olive felt it for Betty, even with that bumper sticker on her truck.

He made me feel that I mattered.

People know exactly who loves them, and how much—

love was not to be tossed away carelessly, as if it were a tart on a platter with others that got passed around again. No, if love was available, one chose it, or didn't choose it. And if her platter had been full with the goodness of Henry and she had found it burdensome, had flicked it off crumbs at a time, it was because she had not known what one should know: that day after day was unconsciously squandered.

She'd filled the house with plants and flowers, been good to Ana, she'd packed suitcases for their expensive vacations, waited while he played golf, and mostly (Pam was right about this) listened while Jim talked about himself endlessly, how smart he'd been in court that day, how he was the best in the business and everyone knew it.… She had bought him a drawer full of cuff links, a ludicrously expensive watch, because, he said, he'd always wanted one. But

You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.

What comes from a willing hand is far more acceptable than what comes from a full hand. "It was a small favour for him to do"; yes, but he could do no more. "But it is a great thing which this other gave"; yes, but he hesitated, delayed, grumbled in the giving, gave disdainfully, or he made a show of it and had no mind to please the person on whom he bestowed it. Why, such a man made a present to his own pride, not to me!

You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away—a man is not a piece of fruit.

You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.

Cela s'est passé. Je sais aujourd'hui saluer la beauté.

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.

Until we really behold the horror of the pit in which by nature we lie, we can never properly appreciate Christ's so-great salvation.