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

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

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

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It’s you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

You can’t get too much winter in the winter.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘

The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

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.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

Human beings love poetry. They don’t even know it sometimes… whether they’re the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber… they’re listening to poetry.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

Naturally, there are times when every woman likes to be flattered… to feel she is the most important thing in someone’s world. Only a man can paint this picture.

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.

I resent the implication that I’m less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

The world remains ever the same.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

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

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.