Quotes about Appreciation

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.

To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self... this is to have succeeded.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

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

Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not,And all their botany is Latin names.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

Thanks for respecting me.

My family, you know, are all still, you know, very close. We're all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So, what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy.

I've so much respect for Chelsea, and I love them.

If we cannot defend the things of this world and if none of the relationships in which we walk the earth can withstand the criticism which reduces the whole to relativity, we can still love them and we need take the criticism no more seriously than it deserves (pp. 29, 248).