Quotes about Appreciation

He respects owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right.

You gave me Christopher Robin, and then You breathed new life in Pooh. Whatever of each has left my pen Goes homing back to you. My book is ready, and comes to greet The mother it longs to see -- It would be my present to you, my sweet, If it weren't your gift to me.

When you love what you have, you have everything you need.

Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state--it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.

Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.

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

No one who strives with full faith and heart for the blessings of eternal life will be denied. And how great will be the joy and how much deeper the appreciation then after enduring in patience and faith now.

My dad used to play that Paul McCartney song 'Let 'Em In.' That was dope.

They don't fund the arts enough and they so often take words and music for granted and performers for granted - particularly women.