Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

I love life because what more is there?

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

If it’s good music, it’s good music.

Because in a split second, it’s gone.

I always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs – that’s where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that’s very cool.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

It’s cool to be recognised by your peers.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.

People don’t realize what they had till it’s gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.

Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.