Quotes about Appreciation
Be more grateful, and less worried.
— Hal Elrod
Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep." Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"
— Khalil Gibran
As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.
— William Hazlitt
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The problem is that they don't even realize that they're walking a new road every day. They don't see that the fields are new and the seasons change. All they think about is food and water
— Paulo Coelho
If you don't take inventory of your blessings, ingratitude will try to steal them from you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
— Edith Wharton
Believe me, all of you, the best way to help the places we live in is to be glad we live there.
— Edith Wharton
The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories.
— Edith Wharton
You see, Monsieur, it's worth everything, isn't it, to keep one's intellectual liberty, not to enslave one's powers of appreciation, one's critical independence?
— Edith Wharton
He was not blind to her crudity and her limitations, but they were a part of her grace and her persuasion. Diverse et ondoyante—so he had seen her from the first.
— Edith Wharton
It was as if all the latent beauty of things had been unveiled to her. She could not imagine that the world held anything more wonderful.
— Edith Wharton