Jeb Bush, I appreciate you. You a leader. You a Bush.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

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.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

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

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

It’s cool to be recognised by your peers.

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

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

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

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

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.‘

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

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

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.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

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

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

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

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 love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

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.

I’ve always appreciated a turn of phrase.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

It’s nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn’t think of.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

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.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

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

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

I’m screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I’m funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that’s appreciated by young people.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

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

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.

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.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

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

Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

There is so much that people take for granted.

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

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.

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.

It was such a leap in my career when ‚Truman Show‘ came along. It’s always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that’s OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

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.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

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.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.