appreciation quotes

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

Because in a split second, it’s gone.

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

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.

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 undoubtedly feels nice when you are being appreciated and you get complimented by girls. Who doesn’t like that? Having said that, I don’t take it as any pressure.

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.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

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

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

Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?

A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

There is so much that people take for granted.

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

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

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

I’ve always loved black culture; I don’t know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone. I’m older – I’m in my early 50s – so you’ll have to excuse me. That was always very exciting to me to connect to the culture on that level.

Life is precious.

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.

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

I’ve always appreciated a turn of phrase.

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

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.

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

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.

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

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

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

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

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

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.

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.‘

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

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

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you’re not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!

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

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

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

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

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

If it’s good music, it’s good music.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

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