Quotes About Appreciation

I have been thinking lately how I have loved my physical life.

My father said, "I would never have thought this place could be beautiful. I'm glad to know that.

It still amazes me every time I think of it. I'm writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you've done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God's grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle. You may not remember me very well at all, and it may seem to you to be no great thing to have been the good child of an old man in a shabby little town you will no doubt leave behind. If only I had the words to tell you.

I have lived my life on the prairie and a line of oak trees can still astonish me.

When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters.

Each morning I'm like Adam waking up in Eden, amazed at the cleverness of my hands and at the brilliance pouring into my mind through my eyes--old hands, old eyes, old mind, a very diminished Adam altogether, and still it is just remarkable. What of me will I still have? Well, this old body has been a pretty good companion. Like Balaam's ass, it's seen the angel I haven't seen yet, and it's lying down in the path.

And I gave you some of those chocolate cupcakes with the squiggle of white frosting across the top. I buy those for your mother because she loved them and won't buy them for herself.

Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don't. But you listen to them anyway. So, sometimes with art, it is important just to look.

Life is Beautiful

if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important.

Life is so beautiful

With a great effort the Don opened his eyes to see his son once more. He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, Life is so beautiful.

But time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty.

showing his gratitude.

He was in extremis. He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, "Life is so beautiful.

Thank God you're poor, Mom.

La verdad, había en ella algo que era imposible no admirar, por esas razones que nos llevan a apreciar las obras bien hechas, aunque sean perversas.

Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.

Ce-mi place mie este s? citesc romanele, nu s? le fac autopsia.

Una cosa è credere che tutte le culture meritino considerazione, visto che tutte forniscono apporti positivi alla civiltà umana, e un'altra, molto diversa, è credere che tutte, per il semplice fatto di esistere, si equivalgano.

Every meal should be a small celebration

People in love feel that way all the time, like they don't know what they've done to deserve each other.

There's a kind of holiness to love, requited or not, and those people who don't receive it with gratitude are arrogant beyond saving.

So I would die in here. I'd leave my little life. I'd barely worn it out. Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I kept it in the back of my closest, forgetting it was there. We were meant to die when it was barely stitched anymore, when the elbows and knees were stained with grass and mud, shoulder pads uneven from people hugging you all the time, downpours and blistering sun, the fabric faded, buttons gone.