#appreciation

[T[his isn’t just “another day, another dollar.” It’s more like “another day, another miracle.” (213) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#daily-living #life #mindfulness #miracles #perspective

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. ↗

— Voltaire

#belong #excellent #makes #others #thing

I wake up in the morning and I see that flower, with the dew on its petals, and at the way it's folding out, and it makes me happy, she said. It's important to focus on the things in the here and now, I think. In a month, the flower will be shriveled and you will miss its beauty if you don't make the effort to do it now. Your life, eventually, is the same way. ↗

— Dan Buettner

#beauty #life #beauty

I wish I could give you all the examples over the last two years as secretary of agriculture, where I hear people in rural America constantly being criticized, without any expression of appreciation for what they do do. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#america #any #appreciation #being #constantly

It's easy to not feel misplaced if this tidal wave of appreciation is coming your way. ↗

— Christoph Waltz

#coming #easy #feel #misplaced #tidal

Hating skin color is contempt for God's divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#beauty #conciousness #contempt #create #creative

As I get older, my appreciation for wine has just increased. I fell in love with wine through my travels, but knowing what the wine country is all about definitely makes it my own. ↗

— Jeff Gordon

#appreciation #country #definitely #fell #get

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. ↗

— G. H. Hardy

#criticism #explain #exposition #justifiable #make

So I show appreciation for the little gifts that have been handed to me. ↗

— Terrence Howard

#been #gifts #handed #i #little

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#expect #fail #get #great #greatest