Quotes about Appreciation

He was afraid he did not understand beauty apart form human beings.

A whole lifetime was too short to bring out … the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning …

There it was, all round them. It partook, she felt, carefully helping Mr. Bankes to a specially tender piece, of eternity.

I make it a rule to try everything, she said. Don't you think it would be very annoying if you tasted ginger for the first time on your deathbed, and found you never liked anything so much? I should be so exceedingly annoyed that I think I should get well on that account alone.

Far away a bell tolls, but not for death. There are bells that ring for life. A leaf falls, from joy. Oh, I am in love with life!

What she liked was simply life. 'That's what I do it for', she said, speaking aloud, to life.

The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.

There is always something for which to be thankful.

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)

When you see your own bright beauty springing up anew at your feet, think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.