Quotes About Appreciation

You have to find what is good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now.

How do you keep from envying? You have to find what's good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive, and, age is not a competitive issue

you should never take anything for granted.

I may be dying, but I am surrounded by loving, caring souls. How many people can say that?

Bila kita diberi waktu tak terbatas, tidak ada lagi yang istimewa. Tanpa kehilangan atau pengorbanan, kita tidak bisa menghargai apa yang kita punya

Well, when people get married, they share the love of a couple. But when children arrive, they create another love, not just for the new additions, but for the new entity they have created. The family. It is not better than a couple's love, it's complementary, forged with a new appreciation, and a wider, expansive heart.

to pay attention when your loved ones are speaking, as if it were the last time you might hear them.

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

Well, I have to look at life uniquely now. Let's face it. I can't go shopping, I can't take care of the bank accounts, I can't take out the garbage. But I can sit here with my dwindling days and look at what I think is important in life. I have both the time—and the reason—to do that." So, I said, in a reflexively cynical response, I guess the key to finding the meaning of life is to stop taking out the garbage?

I want to tell him to be more open, to ignore the lure of advertised values, to pay attention when your loved ones are speaking, as if it were the last time you might hear them.

And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for a 'living funeral'. Each of them spoke and paid tribute.. Some cried. Some laughed. One woman read a poem: 'My dear and loving cousin.. Your ageless heart as you ,love through time, layer on layer, tender sequoia..' .. And all the heartfelt things we never get to say to those we love, Morrie said that day.

What if you had one day perfectly healthy, I asked? What would you do? "Twenty-four hours?" Twenty-four hours.

The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.

So, have we solved the secret of happiness? I believe so, he said. Are you going to tell me? Yes. Ready? Ready. Be satisfied. That's it? Be grateful. That's it? For what you have. For the love you receive. And for what God has given you. That's it? He looked me in the eye. Then he sighed deeply. That's it.

Do you understand now? he asked. With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can't appreciate what we have.

So," she said, moving away, "now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

Beginnings and endings are earthly ideas. I go on. And because I go on, you go on with me. Feeling loss is part of why you are on Earth. Through it, you appreciate the brief gift of human existence, and you learn to cherish the world I created for you. But the human form is not permanent. It was never meant to be. That gift belongs to the soul.

Those moments are a gift.

With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can't appreciate what we have.

When someone passes, people always ask, why did God take them? A better question would be why did God give them to us? What did we do to deserve their love, their joy, the sweet moments we shared? Those moments are a gift.

You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?

When you are measuring life, you are not living it...

time, because none of us know how much we have, and it is an affront to God to assume there will be more.

Kai laiko turi be galo, niekas neb?ra ypatinga. Be netek?i? ar aukos mes nesugebame ?vertinti to, k? turime.