Quotes About Appreciation

Take it from me, local government offices are mostly about flexi-time and cake. Cake comes in for birthdays, for house moves, for news of engagements, births, weddings, christenings, driving tests, kids making the cross-country team or passing grade one piano. There is no news too small that it can't be celebrated with chocolate brownies for the whole office.

I fancy that the Irish language must have 57 different words for 'rain', in the same way that Inuit has for 'snow'. If, in reality, this is not the case, then I'm really glad I've never bothered to learn Irish'.

Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.

For only he who has lived in darkness truly knows and values the light.

How is a man fortunate to live in the darkness, brother?" "Why do you wonder?" asked Blaise. "For only he who has lived in darkness truly knows and values the light.

Every sunrise is priceless and you can experience the richness that life holds only when you live life to the full instead of just being an onlooker.

For us to regard others as worthy, we have to begin by regarding ourselves as worthy.

When you express gratitude for the blessings that come into your life, it not only encourages the universe to send you more, it also sees to it that those blessings remain.

Without enthusiasm then what we have surrounded ourselves with becomes worthless.

If you want a new life, first give praise for having the old one!

The more grateful we are, the more we practice this in our everyday lives, the more connected we become to the universe around us.

When you love yourself, when you appreciate yourself, and are able to make peace with yourself, then because you are the same energy as the universe, it responds. It loves you in return, appreciates you in return, and makes its peace with you in return.

When you do not see the beauty in the things around you, nothing will be adequate to you.

True gratitude, not mere verbal platitudes of thanks, is also a power in and of itself, which bursts forth from our inner being to the universe. Having received this power, the universe must respond, allowing more gifts to come our way.

I have successfully avoided enjoying opera all my life. -quoted in Entertainment Weeky, http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20548...

Life is not lost by dying. Life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day...

The ant finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.

But then the money business began. You like to give a girl presents when you're in love—you like to do things right. Well, Lord knows, Eva was no gold-digger—she was as likely to be pleased with a soda as a pair of imported gloves. On the other hand, she was as likely to be pleased with the gloves.

The best relationship you ever know will be the one in which you love each other for your faults—not despite them.

It seems such a pity that we can learn to value what we have only thru the loss of it. Truly 'we will never miss the water till the well runs dry.' -Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Farm Home (11) , October 20, 1919

I think there are always compensations. The trouble is we do not recognize them. We usually are so busily longing for things we can't have that we overlook what we have in their place, that is even more worth while. Sometimes we realize our happiness only by comparison after we have lost it. It really appears to be true that, To appreciate Heaven well A man must have some 15 minutes of Hell. Laura Ingalls Wilder; The Farm Home (13) , November 20, 1919

Algunas personas se quejan de que las rosas tienen espinas. Yo estoy agradecido de que las espinas tengan rosas. ALPHONSE KARR, AUTOR

When people bitch about the death of the vinyl LP as a medium (and lord knows they bitch) what they're mostly lamenting is the death of this kind of listening. Music as a concerted sonic experience, rather than the backing track to a flashing screen. What

Music has become more pervasive and portable than ever. But it feels less precious in the bargain. I