Quotes about Appreciation

that gratitude for life came from being happy

If there is a single lesson I have learned, it is this: in life, we are destined to lose many things. That is the nature of life. Never mind. Just don't lose the present. Nothing is worth it. There is nothing more important than "this," the fullness of life right now.

Rest and be thankful.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.

To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches.

If I'm signing autographs and I see one hundred people in a line I've got to remind myself, "That person is one one-hundredth of my day, but to them I'm their day." You know what I mean? Unless they meet J.Lo later on.

So if you've had a good time tonight, or if you've had a good time any night, for gosh sake's why not drop a dollar in the mail to me?

In general, in my life, one of the coolest things that I've been able to do is to go to different places and meet different people and see how they view the world and to learn what their music is and what their language is, and the food they eat and everything. That idea of the beauty of the vastness of the world has just been my life.

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.

Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.