Quotes about Appreciation

There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.

I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.

A certain person wondered why a big strong girl like me wouldn't keep a job which paid a normal salary. I took my time to lead her and to read her every page. Even minimal people can't survive on minimal wage. A certain person wondered why I wait all week for you. I didn't have the words to describe just what you do. I said you had the motion of the ocean in your walk, and when you solve my riddles you don't even have to talk.

I'm grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love — for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I'm grateful to know that it exists.

Every day I awaken I am grateful. My intent is to be totally present in that day. And laugh as much as possible.

Baby, I've been thinking and now I am sure. You are the greatest woman I've ever met.

Today is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.

Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.