Quotes About Appreciation

Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don't have and undervaluing what you do. There's some real utility in gratitude.

To act to justify the suffering of your parents is to remember all the sacrifices that all the others who lived before you (not least your parents) have made for you in all the course of the terrible past, to be grateful for all the progress that has been thereby made, and then to act in accordance with that remembrance and gratitude. People sacrificed immensely to bring about what we have now. In many cases, they literally died for it—and we should act with some respect for that fact.

If you're reading this book, there's a strong probability that you're a privileged person. You can read. You have time to read. You're perched high in the clouds. It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order.

Qué debo hacer cuando desprecio lo que tengo? Recordar a aquellos que no tienen nada y que aspiran a ser agradecidos».

Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don't have and undervaluing what you do. There's some real utility in gratitude. It's also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.

If life's taught me anything, it's that you might as well eat your dessert first, 'cos the ceiling might fall in before you're even done with the salad.

There's some real utility in gratitude.

You are a wonderful son, and a wonderful man. Yet another parent busting forth with the "man" thing! I'd have to check my chest for signs of hair when I got home.

But nobody ever tells you in advance when you should concentrate on the good times-that's why you're supposed to do it every day.

Cualquiera conoce el valor de un segundo cuando están contados hasta la hora de la muerte

La vida no se mide por los momentos que respiras, sino por los que te dejan sin aliento.

Llevo puesta la vida que me has dado.

al verla pienso] en una flor de jardín, auténtica, despidiendo su aroma, en medio de un montón de flores de papel...

Apresentou-se, tomou posse, reuniu a magra família e foi ao primeiro andar do Alvo agradecer. "Alguém muito elevado", contou; e dona Rozilda repetia as palavras rolando-as na língua, saborosas, enchia a boca com elas, tinham um gosto de poder.

One is in love when one realizes that the other person is unique.

Soha nem szabad lebecsülni az embereket, ezt igazán tudhatnám.

Ik dank u voor wat u voor me heeft gedaan,' zei ik verontschuldigend. 'Deze weken zijn voor mij van onschatbare waarde geweest, als ik ze had moeten missen had ik niet op zoek durven gaan naar een nieuw leven. Dat heb ik aan u te danken, dokter. (...) Als u iets nodig heeft, aarzelt u dan niet me te bellen.

Ik dank u voor wat u voor me heeft gedaan", zei ik verontschuldigend. "Deze weken zijn voor mij van onschatbare waarde geweest, als ik ze had moeten missen had ik niet op zoek durven gaan naar een nieuw leven. Dat heb ik aan u te danken, dokter. (...) Als u iets nodig heeft, aarzelt u dan niet me te bellen.

Ik dank u voor wat u voor me heeft gedaan,' zei ik verontschuldigend. 'Deze weken zijn voor mij van onschatbare waarde geweest, als ik ze had moeten missen had ik niet op zoek durven gaan naar een nieuw leven. Dat heb ik aan u te danken, dokter.' (...) 'Als u iets nodig heeft, aarzelt u dan niet me te bellen.

The loveliest tune imaginable becomes vulgar and insupportable as soon as the public begins to hum it and the hurdy-gurdies make it their own.

He wanted, in short, a work of art both for what it was in itself and for what it allowed him to bestow on it; he wanted to go along with it and on it, as if supported by a friend or carried by a vehicle, into a sphere where sublimated sensations would arouse within him an unexpected commotion, the causes of which he would strive to patiently and even vainly to analyse.

and, indeed, just as the most charming tune in the world becomes vulgar, intolerable, as soon as the general public is humming it, as soon as the street - organs have taken it up, the work for which charlatan art fanciers do not remain indifferent, the work which nitwits do not challenge, which is not satisfied with arousing the enthusiasm of the few, also becomes, by virtue of that very fact, corrupted, banal, almost repellent to the initiated.

Nancy smiled. She couldn't remember smiling so much. Not with her husband or son. Perhaps she had taken life too seriously when they were alive. Or maybe she had not noticed them as much as she should have.

Man can never be more perfect than the sun. The sun burns us with the same light that warms us. The sun has spots (stains). The ungrateful only talk about the spots (stains). The grateful talk about the light.