Quotes About Appreciation

If I die tomorrow, next year or whenever it might be, I'll know I've had a great life.

One can be alive but half-asleep or half-noticing as the years fly, no matter how fully oxygenated the blood and brain or how steadily the heart beats. Fortunately, this is a reversible condition. One can learn to be alert to the extraordinary and press pause—to memorize moments of the everyday.

Reckon not upon long life: think every day the last, and live always beyond thy account. He that so often surviveth his Expectation lives many Lives, and will scarce complain of the shortness of his days. Time past is gone like a Shadow; make time to come present—

And as I listened, happily, while also taking in the great beauty of my surroundings - "an attack of beauty

I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.

Thanksgiving keeps us                              sane and alive.

Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift - which is why they call it the present.

I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader.

You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church.

Beautiful view. Is there one for the enlisted men?

we really do live on an unbearably beautiful planet. We don't think of it often as a planet - - we live our daily lives on flat and often prosaic ground, and when we're in the air, the flight attendant usually makes us lower the window shade so as not to interfere iwth the movie.

Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.

But there is a silver lining here. By inspiring people to learn the fundamental features of nature described by the Second Law of Thermodynamics, creationists can actually inspire a richer appreciation of the mechanism of evolution.

Many techies see themselves today as overworked, underappreciated lackeys of corporations that couldn't care less about either them or technology. Ballooning workloads will only deepen this attitude.

I say I have made it a rule not to preach. However, anyone who is 101 has earned the right to break her own rules. Once in a while, at least. And so, I am going to give you one piece of advice. Pause once a day and relish the moment. Look around. Notice the colours, the smells and the sounds. Take them in, for that moment will pass and no one can say what the next moment will bring. I know this better than most.

And one of those guys, not exactly a teammate, but definitely one of the guys, he's here today—Bob Uecker. And believe it or not, Bob Uecker played a significant role in me being here today.

You never know when true greatness is lurking around the corner. Just make sure you don't forget the ones who already lurked.

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.

We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.

I'm a misunderstood genius." "What's misunderstood?" "Nobody thinks I'm a genius.

CALVIN: Isn't it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it's weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity. We laugh at nonsense. We like it. We think it's funny. Don't you think it's odd that we appreciate absurdity? Why would we develop that way? How does it benefit us? HOBBES: I suppose if we couldn't laugh at the things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.