Quotes About Appreciation

We didn't have to go all the way to China to see beauty. Or to have an adventure. They were both right here, literally in our backyard.

True beauty] seeps into you. It doesn't make you forget yourself, but totally the opposite. It connects you with everything and fills you with awe that you share the same space with something that glorious. Like a sunrise or a clear blue day or the most extraordinary piece of glass. And then suddenly...you have this epiphany that there's more to the world than just you and what you want or even who you are.

When the average person goes to an apple orchard, he will usually pay attention only to the fruit. If he goes to a nursery, he will notice only the beauty and fragrance of the flowers. Few people consider that the fruit and flowers are only the result of a great deal of planning, preparation, and hard work. In the same way, when most people see another person's success, few will stop to think about how that person could be so successful.

What you get out of a poem becomes what you're supposed to get out of it by the very act of getting it out.

Admiration is a wonderful thing. I like it the same way I like hundred-year-old brandy, and both of them come my way about as frequently. The other similarity is the way it goes to my head,

Giving thanks all year round, all the time, often give you more to be thankful for. - STRONG: Powerful Philosophy for Timeless Thoughts by Kailin Gow.

Mothers are so important. I came across a cable network exec who once told me they don't matter. Well, I disagree. Mothers matter a lot. Without mothers, there wouldn't be people. And mothers watch a lot of the programs on that cable network. No wonder why that network is barely surviving. - Strong by Kailin Gow on Mothers, Knowing Your Viewers, and Strong Leadership

If someone does a Great job or provide excellent service, make sure to recognize and reward them! If someone wrote a book you enjoy, tell them. If you want people to put out their best and to strive for excellence, encourage and support them. - Strong by Kailin Gow on Leadership

I guess when you live somewhere every day you forget just how wonderful it can be. Or maybe you forget just how good some of the other things in the world are, like great friends.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

I loved the you inside and out. You make the world better just by being in it. You make me better.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

It's greener on the other side, but it's rainbows and gold on mine. - Kailin Gow

We must remember, however, that art is of value only to the extent that it speaks to us. It might be a universal language if we ourselves were universal in our sympathies.

Art, to be fully appreciated, must be true to contemporaneous life. It is not that we should ignore the claims of posterity, but that we should seek to enjoy the present more. It is not that we should disregard the creations of the past, but that we should try to assimilate them into our consciousness.

You may laugh at us for having "too much tea," but may we not suspect that you of the West have "no tea" in your constitution?

True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.

When will the West understand, or try to understand, the East? We Asiatics are often appalled by the curious web of facts and fancies which has been woven concerning us.

Si l'on considère la petitesse dévolue à la coupe du bonheur humain, la promptitude avec laquelle elle déborde de larmes, la facilité avec laquelle nous la vidons jusqu'à la lie dans notre soif inapaisable d'infini, qui pourrait bien nous reprocher de faire si grand cas d'une simple tasse de thé ?

ceux qui se révèlent incapables de sentir en eux-mêmes la petitesse des grandes choses ne sauraient reconnaître chez les autres la grandeur des petites choses.

Uno straniero si meraviglierà certamente che si faccia tanto rumore per nulla. "Che tempesta in una tazza di tè!" esclamerà meravigliato. Ma se consideriamo quanto sia piccola, in ultima analisi, la coppa della gioia umana, come fa presto a riempirsi di lacrime, come si vuoti facilmente per la nostra inestinguibile sete di infinito, non ci si dovrà stupire dell'importanza che diamo a una tazza di tè.

Chi non è in grado di cogliere dentro di sé la piccolezza delle grandi cose avrà molta difficoltà a cogliere la grandezza delle piccole cose negli altri.

Approach a great painting as thou wouldst approach a great prince.

If I do not feel a sense of joy in God's creation, if I forget to offer the world back to God with thankfulness, I have advanced very little upon the Way. I have not yet learnt to be truly human. For it is only through thanksgiving that I can become myself.

Prayer is a state of continual gratitude.

The value of a thing is never so poignantly precious as when we contemplate the loss of it