Quotes about Appreciation

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.

The problem is that they don't even realize that they're walking a new road every day. They don't see that the fields are new and the seasons change. All they think about is food and water

If you don't take inventory of your blessings, ingratitude will try to steal them from you.

What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

Believe me, all of you, the best way to help the places we live in is to be glad we live there.

The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories.

You see, Monsieur, it's worth everything, isn't it, to keep one's intellectual liberty, not to enslave one's powers of appreciation, one's critical independence?

He was not blind to her crudity and her limitations, but they were a part of her grace and her persuasion. Diverse et ondoyante—so he had seen her from the first.

It was as if all the latent beauty of things had been unveiled to her. She could not imagine that the world held anything more wonderful.

You can probably identify your friends' gifts rather quickly

Refractions of divine goodness are best identified, praised, and enjoyed. If their appearance is episodic and brief, and even if they are contaminated with selfishness or pride, don't let the unattractive features of someone's life blind you to the good.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.