Quotes About Appreciation

Simeon Potter notes that when James II first saw St. Paul's Cathedral he called it amusing, awful, and artificial, and meant that it was pleasing to look at, deserving of awe, and full of skillful artifice.

Mientras hacía este libro aprendí sobre todo dos cosas. La primera es que no existe nada, ni una sola cosa, que no sea increíble e interesante cuando te detienes a examinarla... La otra cosa que aprendí es que tenemos una suerte bárbara de estar aquí.

YOU are a genius!... and I am a genius because I married you.

It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.

Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!

If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?

We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own humanity that way! Without appreciation for grace and beauty, there's no pleasure in creating things and no pleasure in having them! Our lives are made drearier, rather than richer! How can a person take pride in his work when skill and care are considered luxuries! We're not machines! We have a human need for craftsmanship!

Once it's too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.

Imagination is not always appreciated.

I guess I'm not the only one who heard their first good jazz in a whorehouse. But I never tried to make anything of it. If I'd heard Louis and Bessie at a Girl Scout jamboree, I'd have loved it just the same.

It was a wonderful time to be alive, or even dead.

This love for everyday things, part natural from the wide eye of infancy, part a literary calculation

So before we end and then begin We'll drink a toast to how it's been A few more hours to be complete A few more nights on satin sheets A few more times that I can say I've loved these days

There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which pleases us.

Earthly things must be known to be loved; heavenly things must be loved to be known.

Weltliche Dinge muß man erkennen, damit man sie lieben kann. Göttliche Dinge muß man lieben, damit man sie erkennen kann.

You could pick out what felt surprising in a book or poem and then save it, as long as you also wrote down the name of the person who wrote it first

The term "middle age" fits where we are, for I see in him both the young man I fell in love with and the old one he will be. I see my own dear husband and I am struck by how deeply I love him, by how many times I have nearly lost him—and by how lost I would be without him.

Like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there's no need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we already are - as soon as we stop pretending we're small or unholy.

Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)

Be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want. -Bob Dylan's Dad

Sometimes the things that you liked the best and that have meant the most to you are the things that meant nothing at all to you when you first heard or saw them.

People don't value their obscurity. They don't know what it's like to have it taken away…

You might think and be so marvelously right about praise that you open your door one day and the day walks in and stays for years.