Quotes about Appreciation

You can probably identify your friends' gifts rather quickly

Refractions of divine goodness are best identified, praised, and enjoyed. If their appearance is episodic and brief, and even if they are contaminated with selfishness or pride, don't let the unattractive features of someone's life blind you to the good.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.

We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.

We are on this planet but once, and to spend it holding back our gushing appreciation of the things that light us up is a shameful waste.

At heart I've always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

I like - I actually love classical music very much.

Cleveland fans are awesome.

We have to go and show these people what classical music is. We say sometimes that classical music has a small audience, but it's because people don't have the chance to be closer to it.