Quotes About Appreciation

He was in a state of wonder most of the time, the way a young boy is--engaged by the most ordinary things as if they were great miracles.

Health is like money–we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.

Health is like munny, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.

I've been given an amazing opportunity and I could not be more grateful. But I also know that all this will eventually die off. It's not real. It will go away and then you'll go away and then, I don't know, I'll be left sitting in some English hotel room.

I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

Not as intolerable as being dead, in my opinion, but I'm very fond of me. I would miss me a lot.

My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books, what's the purpose of reading, and maybe that it's not that cool to hate something just because it's popular.

I believe an appreciation for simplicity, the everyday—the ability to dive deeply into the banal and discover life's hidden richness—is where success, let alone happiness, emerges.

I would take today's joy, and tomorrow's. I would take it with both hands, anywhere it came.

If only there was enough space on this tiny card to evoke my unfettered joie de vivre for what you have done. The gaiety, the mirth, the heavenly bubbling of every effusive cell that sings inside me for your kind and pithy offering.

We had visceral, rich memories of dull, interminable hours. Then a day would pass in perfect harmony with our projects, our family members, and our coworkers, and we couldn't believe we were getting paid for this.

He stood just inside the door and took stock. Everything in it had been taken for granted. How had that happened again? He had promised himself not to take anything for granted and now he couldn't recall the moment that promise had given way to the everyday. It was not likely one single moment.

Aren't you capable of finding anything beautiful in the world?" I'd tell her, she'd say, "I do not want to know about those websites. Please keep those disgusting websites to yourself.

Money may be precious, but people are priceless!

There was beauty to be seen if one simply took the time to behold it. The past was not greater than the present.

Granted, your hard-working hubby is doing his fair share just by bringing home the bacon. But by encouraging him to take on a couple of those tasks himself, he'll soon have more respect for all you do on your family's behalf. If his excuse for turning you down is that he's "too tired" or that "it's women's work," there is a simple way to convince him otherwise: food poisoning.

I'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty, but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with.

How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.

Don't waste your energy on people who don't value you. Surround yourself with those who appreciate and uplift you.

Maybe, she thought, grown-up life was not so much finding your perfect place in the world, but aching for all the faraway places and people you loved—and learning to look at right where you are now, as Rema would say, through a long eyepiece of grateful.

At the point in his lecture where he was saying that the representative element in a work of art is always irrelevant, that for one to appreciate a work of art one must bring to it nothing from life, no knowledge of life's affairs and ideas, no familiarity with its emotions and desires, he was seized by the most stupefying boredom and he had to leave the stage.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.