Quotes About Appreciation

That infamous day was the most powerful reminder I have ever been given that you should never take life for granted and should treat each day as if it's your last.

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

He believed that everything and everybody in the world was worthy of notice but this person beside him was something beyond that. To him her presence was as important as the world. And the stars around it. If she was an instance of the goodness in this world then passing through by her was miracle enough.

Regarde les étoiles et apprécie, toi, d'être vivante.

it's such a privilege to not die prematurely

I want to see things that I would never want to have happen to anyone I love. They remind me just how precious life is; how it dangles.

I know that I found it beautiful. But I cannot recapture it's beauty.

Sugar, aint you ever had no good time?' she said with a bit of sadness in her voice. 'What you mean?' Sugar said,... 'Seems to me that I ain't never see you look up from whatever you were doing and just smile.' 'Just smile? Smile at what? At who?' 'Smile into the air, girl!' she said and waved her arm through the air....you better start, 'cause time is running and a life without good times ain't a life worth having.

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note.

One must live well to know what living is.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.

For can you think how it would be, to never, never hear a meadow lark sing again...?

How can I explain it to you, so you would understand? I've seen everything . . . and I've hardly been away from this yard. I've seen cathedrals in the snow on the Lombardy poplars. I've seen the sun set behind the Alps over there when the clouds have been piled up on the edge of the prairie. I've seen the ocean billows in the rise and the fall of the prairie grass.

Life is such a gentle, treasured thing. I learn about it every minute. I think about it so deeply.

When I'm alone in nature as I am now, I marvel that I ever let a day go by when I'm not in nature as I am now. But the truth is, not only days but whole months go by between immersions. How can that be, when I feel so recharged here?

But there's a blessing in everything if we open our eyes.

You're wrong, Mama. The world's beautiful, but you're so busy being disappointed in everything you don't see it!!

My mother used to say that each day was a gift and how we chose to unwrap it would determine our happiness.

Cecelia Rose, she said, reaching for my hand, "far too many people die with a heart that's gone flat with indifference, and it surely must be a terrible way to go. Life will offer us amazing opportunities, but we've got to be wide-awake to recognize them.

I made a mental note that if I ever needed help from a man I would make him a pie.

Here's the thing. Your idea of happiness is not my idea of happiness, and happiness is not something you can give me. Love is something you can give, and, Mom, you have loved me.

The thing about obsessing about a happy ending is that you forget to enjoy the journey along the way, You forget to appreciate the people alongside you.

I remember watching my mother emerge from her bedroom on a night when she and my father were going out, all dressed up in heels and hose, a skirt or dress that cinched her waist, her pearl choker like a ring around the moon. I'd watch her from my perch in the kitchen, walking trancelike as she fastened the back of an earring. I'd like to be small again, just for a little while, and feel close to her. I never really appreciated my mother. I never appreciated myself.