Quotes About Appreciation

Má, please do not cry. I know I could have bought bread with it, a room for the night. I could have bought acts of love with it, but I could have never bought back the years of your life. Sorrow, even when tempered by sweat and toil into a whisper weight of gold, is still sorrow. Worthless to us both in the end, Má. Better that a stranger circles the globe with it than your youngest son.

There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves- so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you

Great speed in reading is a dubious achievement; it is of value only if what you have to read is not worth reading. A better formula is this: Every book should be read no more slowly than it deserves, and no more quickly than you can read it with satisfaction and comprehension.

Every book should be read no more slowly than it deserves, and no more quickly than you can read it with satisfaction and comprehension.

The beauty of any work of art is related to the pleasure it gives us when we know it well.

Marking a book is literally an expression of your differences or your agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

don't criticize imaginative writing until you fully appreciate what the author has tried to make you experience.

And for all I know he is sitting there still, under his favorite cork tree, smelling the flowers just quietly

I like it better here where I can sit just quietly and smell the flowers.

In haste to plunge into morning mists, You seem to have no heart for blossoms here.

The 'red-tinged flower' is far from fair, Nor do my eyes delight to see, But yon red plum which blossoms there, Is full of loveliness to me.

Gosensh? 1107 (?shik?chi no Mitsune): "Naturally the person who planted it has grown old ... but how tall the pine is now!

The utterly ordinary is utterly extraordinary. It all depends on how you see things, and whether you are willing to look deeply, and live by what you see and feel and know.

Thy mother honored us. We do not forget. - The yarthkin, to Thorgil

Is the gratitude that flows out of your life as abounding as the grace that has flowed into your life?

In our mass-produced world, we don't take enough care of the arts and crafts.

From all of us Scarborough girls, greetings and thanks. This task required two, working together, trusting each other. It required the us, not the I. For that is true love, is it not?

I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on," Temeraire said. "I do not mind the deck.

Baruch ata adonai, eloheinu melech haolam, shelo hasair b'olamo kloom, ubara bo briyot tovot v'ilanot tovot, leihanot bahem b'nai adam

him every word of praise he has earned from you and never received; you will tell him he has been brave, and loyal, and a better partner than you have deserved.

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

Every day is a poetry day.

greatest public school system in the world. We have invested fabulous sums for fine buildings, we have provided convenient transportation for children living in the rural districts, so they may attend the best schools, but there is one astounding weakness to this marvelous system — it is free! One of the strange things about human beings is that they value only that which has a price.