Quotes About Appreciation

It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.

Even today with the problems that we face, who would you rather be? Which country would you trade places with?

I traded my 2002 Silverado in for the Trailblazer, and after my second fight, I got a win bonus. It was the knockout-of-the-night bonus, $50,000, and I paid the rest of my car off, and I gave it to my mother because I had a sponsorship with a Chevy dealership.

From day one, since I was traded to the Clippers, the team has been amazing to not only me, but to my family.

Leaving a book is hard - 'Secret Six' was a book that people cared about. Even years later, the digital sales are great; the trades and single issues are expensive and highly sought after. It was meaningful to a lot of readers, which is endlessly gratifying.

I lift up my heart in gratitude for these beautiful yearly bridges that bind us together in love.

I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I'm very glad therefore you've been a part of it.

It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.

When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.

I think throughout my life I've had an appreciation for how all of these things have to come together in order to realize and then sustain change.

From all of us Scarborough girls, greetings and thanks. This task required two, working together, trusting each other. It required the "us," not the "I." For that is true love, is it not?

Morning would come before we knew it. It always did. But we still had the night, and for now, we were together, so I just closed my eyes and drank it all in.

Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

I never needed much, and I never thought I'd get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

It isn't how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it's how you spend the time.

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

The essence of nature guiding is to travel gracefully rather than arrive

I'm not a materialist, I don't care for things. I don't like cars, I hate things that can be exploited. I live a simple life. The only luxuries I have in my life are travel and food.

Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home.

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

Now, they say that New Zealand is beautiful and I do not know -- because after 22 hours on a plane any landmass would be beautiful.