Quotes about Appreciation

Never take friendship for granted, you never know what tomorrow holds.

Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.

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

To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

Age is nothing; waking up is everything.

And now in my tenderness of remembering it all again, I think I am still there with him too. I am there with all the others, most of them gone but some who are still here, who gave me love and called forth love from me. When I number them over, I am surprised how many there are. And so I have to say that another of the golden threads is gratitude. I was grateful because I knew, even in my fear and grief, that my life had been filled with gifts.

She was another gift, surely, to us all. She was a happiness that made me cry.