Quotes about Appreciation

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

I looked down by chance, and went on passionately staring by choice, at my own crossed legs," the writer and philosopher recollected. "Those folds in the trousers ? what a labyrinth of endlessly significant complexity! And the texture of the gray flannel ? how rich, how deeply, mysteriously sumptuous.

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes. After that I liked jazz music. Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way. I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened.

Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.

If people threw away their money as thoughtlessly as they throw away their time, we would think them insane. Yet time is infinitely more precious than money because money can't buy time.

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

A stable, loving family is something that should absolutely, fundamentally never ever be taken for granted

The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.

Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

In all your life, you will never find a method more effective in getting through to another person than to make that person feel important.

How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.