Quotes About Appreciation

Don't focus on who let you down. Appreciate who lifted you up. Don't focus on who darkened your days. Appreciate who brightened them.

If you don't love yourself it's tough to love anything about your life. Appreciating who you are is essential to your happiness.

Let go of your worries. Hold on to this moment.

Please never stop wanting to collect seashells, taste snowflakes. blow bubbles, smell beautiful flowers, smile at dogs, be amazed by rainbows...okay?

Life is short. So do the things which make you happy. And be with people who make you happy. Look for the good in every day - even if some days you have to look harder.

You are a fine piece of china. Don't let anyone treat you like a paper plate.

The Bible tells me that "every good and perfect gift is from the Lord." I believe it. But, unlike things like stress and calories, these good gifts really are optional—I can choose to push them away, or I can embrace them with open arms. I wonder how many good gifts I've left unopened because I was too stressed, harried, or just plain shortsighted to recognize them for what they were?

Focusing techniques that enhance attentiveness (such as mindfulness meditation) help to increase appreciation for the simple blessings of life and banish incompatible thoughts from consciousness. For that reason, celebrating the ordinary is a practice that requires paying attention. Embrace the temporary. Live in the moment. Be grateful for all the little things. Let your eyes linger on what's right in front of you.

however, we start with the presumption that all life is a gift, then gratitude is not an occasional moment when we remember to say thank you to a spouse or to a service provider. Instead, it creates a way of living that acknowledges human neediness and dependency as unavoidable. Gratitude, then, becomes as normal as breathing.

End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.

I think that her life was about finding the extraordinary in every day. It was how she could sit in her garden on a rainy day and see the beauty in it. It's what got her out of bed every morning.

I've found that you can't measure happiness the way you measure yards in a race. You just learn to recognize it when it arrives so you can enjoy it while it lasts.

The golden moments ?n the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; The angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. —George Eliot

People have different ways of expressing love. It doesn't mean the love is worth any less.

Today everything must be easy and it mustn't take time ... ready meals. Powdered hot chocolate and instant coffee ... Living takes time. We need to give each other time.

You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.

You're a sex symbol," she began. "Thanks for noticing.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

Miten paljon mies antaisikaan naiselle, jos tämä rakastaisi miestä miehen itsensä vuoksi!

You have to like the present if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough." - Meister Eckhardt

But the approach to truth is not easy. There is only one way towards it, the way through error. Only through our errors can we learn; and only he will learn who is ready to appreciate and even to cherish the errors of others as stepping stones towards truth, and who searches for his own errors: who tries to find them, since only when he has become aware of them can he free himself from them.

The secret to life, she had said, was to find the little things, the unimportant ones that would nonetheless always remind you of the precious things they accompanied—and hold onto them.

She herself had told him that you can never hold onto anything. The harder you try, the more precious things slip through your fingers. The secret to life, she had said, was to find the little things, the unimportant ones that would nonetheless always remind you of the precious things they accompanied—and hold onto them. Like the fine furniture her husband had carved for her, seemingly centuries ago.