Quotes About Appreciation

Maybe that's the problem with being someplace beautiful: it makes it impossible to live anywhere else that's not.

Open your eyes to the magic around you.

I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me.

Don't condescend to unskilled labor. Try it for half a day first.

We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart.

In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.

Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness.

If you don't like my book, write your own.... If you do like my novels, I commend your good taste.

Don't settle for less than you deserve. You are worthy of love, respect, and happiness.

I have no little insight into the feelings of furniture, and treat books and prints with a reasonable consideration. How some people use their pictures, for instance, is a mystery to me; very revolting all the same--portraits obliged to face each other for ever--prints put together in portfolios.

It's a gift, that's all. And when you get a gift, you feel good. Doesn't matter if you haven't got a gift ready to give in return. Something as fine as love from someone as nice as you—well, knowing about it means a lot. It can mean everything.

One of the things we don't appreciate in Western cultures is how powerful and important touch is to our physical and emotional growth.

Ahora ya sabéis que todos los días, en el colegio, Peter aprende cosas de todos vosotros. Mira cómo hacéis las cosas y aprende al jugar con cada uno de vosotros, igual que aprende solo con ser vuestro amigo. Por eso quiero daros las gracias por ayudarle, y por dejarme venir a vuestra clase para hablaros del cerebro.

In the end I believe the essential spirit that animates those places animates me. If that spirit is God, then I found God...If that spirit is life, then I found life...If that spirit is awe, then I found awe. Part of me suspects it's all three...all I had to do to discover that spirit and the resulting feeling of humility and appreciation was not to look or listen or taste or feel. All I had to do was remember, for what I was looking for I somehow already knew.

Love and respect. — Without respect, love cannot go long.

Do not correct a fool or he will hate you, correct a wise man and he will appreciate you.

Only a fool would dream of riches when what is rarest are moments

Mother, you've given me even more than you know," he said. "I feel revived. That you'd never forgotten me was always my fondest hope. Knowing it's true is a boon of incalculable value. Thank you.

It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive.

Clarence once mentioned to me during a negotiation but he should be paid not only for playing but for being Clarence.

In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?

Practicing gratitude in the moment of frustration can really be a game changer.

Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you're not healthy. You can't appreciate it.

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.