Quotes about Appreciation

Stephen Sondheim I am in awe of.

Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again.

What should be boundless is one's love of life, not one's love of art or knowledge.

How can you love art, beauty, poetry, and hate life? That's like saying you love the ocean but hate water.

If those who seek happiness would stop one little minute and think, they would see that the delights they already experience are as countless as the grasses at their feet, or the dewdrops sparkling upon the morning flowers.

I now pray, not for more of this world's goods and greater blessings, but to be worthy of that which I already have.

Find at least one person each day, and more if possible, in whom you see some good quality that is worthy of praise, and praise it. Remember, however, that this praise must not be in the nature of cheap, insincere flattery; it must be genuine. Speak your words of praise with such earnestness that they will impress those to whom you speak. Then watch what happens. You will have rendered those whom you praise a decided benefit of great value to them

Instead of complaining about what you don't like about your job, start commending what you do like and see how quickly it improves.

He picked up one of Lorna's roses and set it in my lap. Here. I picked it up and smelled it. He poked me in the shoulder. See what I mean? Thorns don't stop you from sniffing. Or putting them in a vase on the kitchen table. You work around them.... Cause the rose is worth it... Think what you'd miss.

Remember that this week. You have never lived the seven days in front of you, and you will never live 'em again. Life is like a coin. Spend it any way you want to, but you can spend it only once. God would like you to learn from your experience in the wilderness. He wants to change your appetite, change your habits, change your style and, in the process, change your entire life.

You had to see what you had instead of what you didn't have. Start from where you are, not from where you want to be.

I don't know whether we Church members fully appreciate the Book of Mormon, one of our sacred scriptures, as we really should.