Appreciation Quotes

"When you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees and some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever, and you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it, you just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are." "Today I have more than I ever dreamed." "Accept the children the way we accept trees with gratitude because they are a blessing." "Isn't that the most beautiful sight you've ever seen?" "I'm blessed and I thank God for every day for everything that happens for me" "Sometimes it takes years to place a worth on the value of a good friend" "I woke up this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new." "Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness." "Be open to finding beauty in the unexpected." "With all my fans I got a family again." "I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. The type of epopees written in the Soviet Union, where they were agents of the Party, meant nothing to me." "There is no cure for life and death save to enjoy the interval." "Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours." "What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly" "Some things are more precious because they don't last long." "If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you." "One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings." "Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation." "We are richer than we think, each one of us" "With the same spirit of gratitude, as we had a better use of our faculties than by listening to the teachers who knew that lesson best"