Life can be seen through your eyes but it is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart.
— Mary Xavier- Look not mournfully into the past; it returns no more; wisely improve the present, and go forth into the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
― Henry W. Longfellow - Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.
― Hunter S. Thompson - My first big break was ‘White Chicks.’ I had only been acting for about two years and I certainly didn’t feel like I was ready, for such an opportunity. It could only be the hand of God blessing me. I accept everything I’m given with great appreciation.
― Rochelle Aytes - Nature didn’t need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.
― Scott Westerfeld - Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
― William Makepeace Thackeray - Not only have I made films about the subject, but I’ve largely funded them on my own, so I’m fully committed to doing whatever I can to change the audience’s respect and appreciation for the ocean. In 100 years I want whales, dolphins and sharks to still be around, and the ocean to be a healthier place.
― Greg MacGillivray - Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.
― Karen Armstrong - 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.
― Gilbert Keith Chesterton - The appreciation of a painting or a piece of music, for example, or even falling in love, is all about our subjectivity. But to decide that the entire universe operates in such a way, let alone to go to war because we are so convinced we are right that others must agree with us or die, that surely should demand a higher level of argument than ‘It’s true because I really, really feel it is.
― Derren Victor Brown - The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
― William James - The person who should really write an appreciation of the late great Dom DeLuise is Burt Reynolds, who, even more than Mel Brooks, made of the jolly, beanie wearing fat man a side-kick and a legend.
― Rich Cohen - The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
― Dalai Lama - The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.
― Paulo Coelho - There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
― Mother Teresa - There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.
― Mahatma Gandhi - To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
― Mark Twain - Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!
― Mae West - We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
― Seneca - We don’t need MORE to be thankful for, we just need to be MORE thankful.
― Anonymous
Appreciation
