Quotes about Appreciation

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.

Being without food, fearful for one's life, the bombings — all made me so appreciative of safety, of liberty.

Every person is different. Yet often, those differences are not understood or valued by others.

If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things...I play with leaves, I skip down the street and run against the wind.

There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give.

I think that is why—why God allows hard things in life. To prepare us. To knock off rough edges—pride, bias, envy, selfishness—so that when we get to heaven we will be more in tune—more able to enjoy the beautiful things we'll find there. Maybe that's what the rewards will be. A deeper appreciation of what we are given—what we are a part of.

I want to thank you for that. Personally. Whether you knew it at that time or not, you had a great deal to do with shaping the life and character of the man I have come to love.

The cake had been done by a lady friend of Mary's. It was simpler than it would have been had she been given more time; but I was finding more and more beauty in simplicity.

You women are strange creatures, indeed, he said. No wonder we men never succeed in understandin' ya. But thanks be to God fer makin' ya the way ya are.