Quotes about Appreciation

You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.

The truist indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

Everyone can open a book not everyone can appreciate the beauty of the writing.

Joy isn't the natural response to blessings - joy is what comes from acknowledging them.

there is no joy without gratitude

I once read that love is like a rose: we fixate on the blossom, but it's the thorny stem that keeps it alive and aloft. I think marriage is like that. Like my father said, the things of greatest value are the things we fight for. And in the end, if we do it right, we value the stem far more than the blossom

I'm glad I have you for my boyfriend." "Me too," I said. "Sometimes I have to pinch myself." She pinched my arm and smiled. "You're so cute.

It seems a long time since I remembered all I have to be grateful for. Perhaps that's why it's been such a long time since I've been really happy.

For the first time I realized that gratitude and joy were connected, like conjoined twins. I couldn't be happy because I wasn't grateful and I wasn't grateful because I wasn't allowing myself to be. I was too busy hunting the next prize to appreciate the prize already at home. What I had was never enough, not because of the deficit in what I had but because of the deficit in me.

There are none so impoverished as those who deny the blessings of their lives.

We can bemoan what we have lost, or we can be grateful to have been blessed with something to mourn.