Quotes About Appreciation

The Buddha spoke about the practice of samtusta, recognizing that we have enough conditions to be happy right here and right now. We don't need to obtain any more. Samtusta has been translated as realizing that one is satisfied with little.

Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.

Learn to love, enjoy and embrace what you have in the here and now. That's all you really need to be happy.

It is not necessary to read all of Goethe or all of Kant, it is not necessary to read all of Schopenhauer; a few pages of Werther, a few pages of Elective Affinities and we know more in the end about the two books than if we had read them from beginning to end, which would anyway deprive us of the purest enjoyment.

Wehe, Sie lesen eindringlicher, Sie ruinieren sich alles, was Sie lesen. Es ist ganz gleich, was Sie lesen, es wird am Ende lächerlich und ist am Ende nichts wert. Hüten Sie sich vor dem Eindringen in Kunstwerke, sagte er, Sie verderben sich alles und jedes, selbst das Geliebteste.

Bless thy simplicity, Tess

To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience...

He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had before known but darkly - the seasons in their moods, morning and evening, night and noon, winds in their different tempers, trees, waters and mists, shades and silences, and the voices of inanimate things.

In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked that she was, and forgot that the defective can more than the entire.

La bellezza per lei, come per tutti quelli che hanno molto sentito, non risiedeva nelle cose ma in ciò che esse simboleggiavano

In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was, and forgot that the defective can be more than the entire

I should like the flowers very very much, if I didn't keep on thinking they'd be all withered in a few days!

away from courting me—" Gabriel expanded. "I'm sorry to have made you run so fast, my dear," he said, with a grateful sense of favours

She might have looked her thanks to Gabriel on a minute scale, but she did not speak them.

In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was and forgot the defective can be more than the entire

A felicidade não depende do que nos falta, mas sim do bom uso do que temos. Thomas Hardy

Being a man not without a frequent consciousness that there was some charm in this life he led, he stood still after looking at the sky as a useful instrument, and regarded it in an appreciative spirit, as a work of art superlatively beautiful. For a moment, he seemed impressed with the speaking loneliness of the scene, or rather with the complete abstraction from all its compass of the sights and sounds of man. Human shapes, interferences, troubles, and joys were all as if they were not

Gledaju?i samo kakva Tessa nije, on nije opazio kakva ona jest, te je zaboravio da nepotpuno može biti ljepše nego ?itavo.

Gratitude's got a short half-life, Clarice.

Every person is worth your time, Hannibal. If at first appearance a person seems dull, then look harder, look into him.

Do not say 'Thanks.'" A fractional turn of his head was enough to dash his annoyance like a glass thrown into the fireplace. "I say what I mean," Starling said. "Would you like it better if I said 'I'm glad you find me so.' That would be a little fancier, and equally true." She raised her glass beneath her level prairie gaze, taking back nothing.

it was Krendler's nature to both appreciate Starling's leg and look for the hamstring.

He watched her in the aisles: Molly, his pretty baseball wife, with her ceaseless vigilance for lumps, her insistence on quarterly medical check-ups for him and Willy, her controlled fear of the dark; her hard-bought knowledge that time is luck. She knew the value of their days. She could hold a moment by its stem. She had taught him to relish.

his insensitivity to the benefits of investing go beyond his need to consume. His parents had no understanding or appreciation of invested dollars. Nor does he. And his parents passed this lack of wisdom on to him. Mr.