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

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

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.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

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.

Everybody’s got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

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.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

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

There is so much that people take for granted.

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

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

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

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.‘

We love things we love what they are.

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.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

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

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.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

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

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

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

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

When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

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

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

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

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

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

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

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.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

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

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

It’s cool to be recognised by your peers.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That’s the one thing I always appreciated. They didn’t tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

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.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.