Quotes About Appreciation

True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

If a book is not worth reading twice, it is not worth reading once.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

he G & A Forum promotes gratitude and appreciation ad infinitum!

One day I was showing the sea to a girl who was seeing it for the first time; she declared that she thought a field of potatoes was a far more impressive sight.

Pour que vous aimiez quelque chose il faut que vous l'ayez vu et entendu depuis longtemps tas d'idiots

Quien no ama con sus cinco sentidos a una mujer hermosa, no estima a la naturaleza su mayor cuidado y su mayor obra

Mejor me sabe en un platón la sopa y el vino con la mosca y la zurrapa que al rico que se engulle todo el mapa muchos años de vino en ancha copa

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

the lovable is not scarce- it is everywhere. Everything you touch is lovable. There is a hufe surplus, a thousand wonderful things to do, see, feel, taste and smell and a million wonderful people to respond to, talk to, do things for, and delight in, ideas to play with, skills to learn, pictures to paint, songs to sing, grass to mow, poems to write, food to cook and dishes to wash. Each of these is one more occasion to love, out of countless such.

so try as you will you cannot make me feel embarrassment at what I find beautiful.

It required attention, openness, humility. It required the recognition that something small could be enough, that something ordinary could be extraordinary.

When I come out on the road of a morning, when I have had a night's sleep and perhaps a breakfast, and the sun lights a hill on the distance, a hill I know I shall walk across an hour or two thence, and it is green and silken to my eye, and the clouds have begun their slow, fat rolling journey across the sky, no land in the world can inspire such love in a common man.

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.

The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

A mother's love is a blessing No matter where you roam. Keep her while you have her, You'll miss her when she's gone.

you, the privileged, the chosen, the pampered, with nothing to do but go to school, hang out, do a little studying, go to college, get into a money-making racket, grow into your fat forties, still whining, still complaining, when there are millions around the world who'd offer fingers and toes to be in your seats, nicely clothed, well fed, with the world by the balls.

I wouldn't want to be faster or greener than now if you were with me O you were the best of all my days!

One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes--I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life.

and the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all, just paint you suddenly wonder why in the world anyone ever did them I look at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world except possibly for the Polish Rider occasionally and anyway it's in the Frick which thank heavens you haven't gone to yet so we can go together the first time