Quotes About Appreciation

I often say that if I had a prayer, it would be this: God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen. I

The receiving is the giving. It's the most genuine thing you can give back. That's what they wanted to give you in the first place.

If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.

have done. I am thankful however for what 1 have

Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.

I don't feel less because I'm in the presence of a beautiful person. I don't go, oh, I'll never be that beautiful! What a ridiculous attitude to take! ....When men look at sports, when they look at football, they don't go, oh, I'll never be that fast!, I'll never be that strong!

Literature and art are never created for scholars but for a universal audience. If academics cannot see that audience, the cannot see art.

An aesthete does not necessarily dress well or collect art works: an aesthete is one who lives by the eye.

A guy who is crazily, madly in love with you. A guy who sees how incredible and amazing you are, even though you're not the cheerleader or even close to the prettiest girl in the school. A guy who thinks you're beautiful, just the way you are.

the day you stopped appreciating the sublimely silly things in life was the day you became a dried-up old turd.

The most amazing discovery in the world is someone who understands what you're about without your having to go through your entire life history to explain it.

the world appears beautiful so that the living may love being alive in it. Life has developed-and we have inherited-a sense of the beautiful to let us feel at home in the world, without further reason.

Men saw in whales everything-except whales themselves.

You think if I haven't had your religious experience I can't appreciate the magnificence of your god. But it's just the opposite. I listen to you, and I think, his god is too small! One paltry planet, a few thousand years -- hardly worth the attention of a minor deity, much less the Creator of the universe.

It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little about it.

The idea of science as a method rather than as a body of knowledge is not widely appreciated outside of science, or indeed in some corridors inside of science.

Quien se acuerda de darle gracias al Sol porque alumbra o al agua porque se deja beber?

Creo que la antipatía es un sentimiento caprichoso y superficial que en el fondo no existe ni tiene razón de ser. En realidad casi nadie es antipático. Si se considera a las personas muy de cerca y se penetra con bondad en la esencia de su psicología, acabamos por admirar sus cualidades y tolerar sus defectos

With the practice of intentional gratitude, there is no time for regrets about the past, or worries about the future. There is only thankfulness for the here and now.

Yasmin loved the little woman with her seamed glowing face, tiny mahogany hands ghosted with flour, white hair like a veil, tied up; loved her in that way women never get to love their own mothers because there is not enough unsaid, and too much said, between them.

Friendship doesn't have anything to do with shoring up weakness. It has to do with respect and consideration for those you care about. It has to do with wanting to give something back to those you admire.

You take life for granted most of the time. You live it in the moment and you don't think a lot about the future because the future seems a long way off. But when people you love die, suddenly the future seems a whole lot closer and very uncertain

you had to settle for what you were given and be grateful.

A ideia de que jamais deveríamos tentar extrair o melhor da natureza é tolice sentimental