Quotes About Appreciation

When you know what you have to lose, you protect it more.

I know one very important truth. Life is not just in the end result but also in the journey. Don't forget to take a breath and look around every once in a while.

See, that's all you're thinking about, is winning. You're confirming your sense of self- worth through outward reward instead of through inner appreciation.

Que quiere una mujer? Ella quieres ser respetada, que la escuches la entiendas, quiere flores, quiere reírse, quiere confiar en ti, no quiere leerte la mente, quiere ser valorada por quien es y en ocasiones ella solo quiere que te calles y dejes de arreglarlo todo. Joan of Arcadia

However, her own lack of power had taught her a curious appreciation for small joys and hard beauties and for the simple, changeless patterns of life and death.

When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.

Time apart is a reminder to value the time together.

When it was time for me to leave, I thanked Mrs. Odom, climbed on Lenny's bike, and set off for home. As I pedaled up the road, I turned and glanced back at the Odoms' house. I remembered that first day on the school bus when I had seen it and thought it was so sad-looking. Then I pictured all those boys in that little kitchen getting loved on by their mama and that house didn't look one bit sad anymore.

Thankful. I felt thankful that I had my very own dog who would love me no matter what.

I wish I could've saved that moment there in that weed-filled yard surrounded by those good-hearted Odoms, with Wishbone sitting there on the cooler in front of us. Just pack it into one of Bertha's canning jars to keep in my room. Then when I was feeling bad about myself or loaded down with all my troubles, I could open it up and breathe in the goodness of it and I'd feel better.

It's hard to be nasty to people who have been nice to you.

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

But it's a good feeling and one does so like to have that.

Jane decided he was certainly beautiful, with brown eyes and a well-shaped nose. It is a refreshing thing for an ordinary-looking woman to look at a beautiful man occasionally and Jane gave herself up to contemplation.

Dear Mildred,' he smiled, 'you are not the kind of person to expect things as your right even though they may be.

Yet, when one came to think of it, the only flowers that were really perfect were those, like the peonies that went so well with one's charming room, that possessed the added grace of having been presented to oneself.

Let's end the notion that ideas have no value unless they turn into a business or have some other practical use.

To Savor The Scene, A Book, or A Friend.

You may produce lunch two hours late, but you make it worth the eating, Janie.

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

Because one man is a fool, is that reason why his friend ... should not be wise? Because one man throws away a diamond, why his comrade should not pick it up and wear it on his finger?

Praise at least as often as you disparage.

Wendy, one girl is worth more than twenty boys.

Hard science alone does not do justice to the cause of fully preserving the past. For that, you also need heart, a capacity for appreciating the drama and tragedy of a ship's dying moments.