Quotes About Appreciation

Love is our greatest achievement. Don't ever forget that. Don't squander it. Seek it. Experience it. Savor it every day that you can, because you never know

to be seen as someone who deserves to be happy.

Success is terrifying. Like happiness, it is often appreciated in retrospect. It's only later that you place it in perspective. Years from now, I'll look back and say, "God, wasn't it wonderful?"

I saw The Sound of Music again recently, and I loved it. Probably it's a more valuable film now than when it first came out, because some of the things it stood for have already disappeared. There's a kind of naive loveliness about it, and love goes by so fast ... love and music and happiness and family, that's what it's all about. I believe in these things. It would be awful not to, wouldn't it?

Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.

When children ask me what's my favorite [role], I say to them, "Imagine having ten beautiful new puppies in a basket and you had to say which one is your favorite, and you simply couldn't because you love them all for different reasons." POPPINS was such a learning experience, as was THE SOUND OF MUSIC. I tell you, every one of them just helped me grow in what I do and did and each one was such a phenomenal working experience.

I'd like to thank all those who made this award possible–especially Jack Warner.

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.

Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.

Mandy tidied the weeds and pulled out some of the summer flowers. It saddened her to do so. She was parting with beloved friends.

Everyone needed a reminder to simply look at things and enjoy them, without labeling them.

God loves you. Life is the most precious gift from God. You will break God's heart if you throw His gift away.

The French don't value education. They exalt it.

She appreciated life, it seemed, appreciated being alive, as if it were some extra gift she hadn't ever expected to receive, as if, perhaps, she wasn't quite worthy of the magnitude of it; and because she appreciated life, he began to do so, too.

She runs her hands over her hipbones and her ribs, stark even under her nightgown, and she thinks about how crazy she was not to appreciate it. How stupid she was all her life not to eat the French Fries and vanilla Cokes. As if her slimness and beauty were the most valuable things she could ever own.

He needed her to understand. He needed her to believe his words. "There's a difference between control and desire. Between respect and using. You need to know how special you are. How beautiful. And if any man doesn't make you feel that, he doesn't deserve you.

The presence of a single bird can change everything for one who appreciates them.

You could do worse than to spend your days staring at blue jays.

Barn swallows, like phoebes, are worth it. Watch swallows skim low over the lawn in the sidelight of a summer evening; watch a phoebe whirl out to snap up a passing crane fly, then fetch up on a dead branch, and then imagine the scene without their spark.

My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it.

Uno puede releer un libro, pero cuando un pulóver está terminado no se puede repetirlo sin escándalo.

Mi secretaria lloraba , leyendo el decreto por el cual me dejaban cesante. Para consolarme decidì abstraer sus lágrimas, por un rato me deleité con esas diminutas fuentes cristalinas que nacían en el aire y se aplastaban en los biblioratos, el secante y el boletín oficial. La vida está llena de hermosuras así.

Me ha alegrado saber que por lo menos tienen una lata de nescafé. Siempre que una persona tiene una lata de nescafé me doy cuenta de que no está en la última miseria; todavía puede resistir un poco.

Cuanto más inteligente es una mujer, más hermosa la veo. Me encantan las que se maquillan con conocimiento, poesía, buena música y bellas palabras.