Appreciation Quotes

I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.

Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

When you drink of the water, don't forget the spring from which it flows.

It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. ...For this reason, one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

For me, he is an exceptional player.

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.

What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.

The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.

The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.

Sometimes you will never know the value of something,until it becomes a memory.

Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself.

Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.

We all need to be recognized for what we're doing, for our work. Every once in a while we need someone to come up to us and say, 'You're beautiful. That was well done. That's nice.'

I do believe in love; it's wonderful - especially love third time around, it's even more precious; it's kind of amazing.

Just because we are not Italian, does not mean we cannot appreciate Michelangelo, it is the same with cuisine.

Point out a great strength of someone in your life today!

Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.

If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.

Never forget the nine most important words of any family- I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me.

The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.

They will only care when you're gone.

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.

Gratefulness for what is there is one of the most powerful tools for creating what is not yet there. What does gratefulness mean? It means you appreciate what is. You value, you give attention to, you honor whatever is here at this moment.

I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of men in clubs and public-houses; of miners half naked in drawers the forthright, perfectly unassuming, and without end in view except dinner, love, money and getting along tolerably; that which is without great hopes, ideals, or anything of that kind; what is unassuming except to make a tolerably, good job of it. I like all that.

I realize that most of us live on the skin - on the surface - without appreciating just how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all.

One ought to be ashamed to make use of the wonders of science embodied in a radio set, the while appreciating them as little as a cow appreciates the botanic marvels in the plants she munches.

Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear.

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

Sometimes we take somebody who's been in the trenches and fought the good fight and been steady for granted. Sometimes we act as if never having done something and not knowing what you're doing is a virtue.

Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.

In order to be happy we must first possess inner contentment; and inner contentment doesn't come from having all we want; but rather from wanting and appreciating being grateful for all we have.

You get time to appreciate things. Perspective, you start looking at things differently.

Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don't miss it.

I started out giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

We can never have enough of Nature.

Be appreciative of what's right with your life. In your gratitude is power to make it even better

I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole city is so lovely that you do not have to write it up to make it poetry; it is ready-made for you. But, I don't know - the poetry written in that city might not seem like poetry if read outside of the city. It would be like the jokes made when you were drunk; you have to get drunk again to appreciate them.

Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change our perspective of your day and your life.

It's a great day! And if you don't think it's a great day, just try missing one.

Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after the solemn and ceremonious literary perfections of the eighteenth century? They have brought back to the pictorial art a new draught of joie de vivre; and the beauty of their work is instinct with gaiety, and floats in sparkling air. I do not expect these masters would particularly appreciate my defence, but I must avow an increasing attraction to their work.

Fewer things are lovelier to me than a full-blown rose when it opens up its heart.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

Never, in all of the seventy billion humans who have walked this planet since the beginning of time has there been anyone exactly like you.Never, until the end of time, will there be another such as you.You have shown no knowledge or appreciation of your uniqueness.Yet, you are the rarest thing in the world.

I guess a great movie would be one that has the most great moments in it.

A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.

There's no way I could pay you back but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated

For them, it was nothing but an ordinary day on an ordinary day on an ordinary weekend, but for her, there was something revelatory about the notion that wonderful moments like these existed.

I'm never critical or judgmental about whether or not a movie is any good. The way I look at it, if several hundred people got together every day for a year or so - a number of then willing to put on heavy makeup, wear clothes that weren't their own and pretend to be people other than themselves - and their whole purpose for doing all this was to entertain me, then I'm not gonna start worrying about whether or not they did a good job. The effort alone was enough to make me happy.

Look closely. The beautiful may be small.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

You are the best thing that's ever been mine.

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.

A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.