Inspirational Quotes

 On Appreciation and Gratitude

If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.
-Rabbi Harold Kushner-

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
-Helen Keller-

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock-

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something,
loves something, and has lost something.
-H. Jackson Brown-

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty;
not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.
-Charles Dickens-

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful;
for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament.
Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower,
and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
-Mother Teresa-

The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.
-Allen J. Boone-

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
-Henry Miller-

No one exists who cannot teach something to someone.
-Baltasar Gracian-

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: His eyes are closed.
-Albert Einstein-

Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius-

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong, honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.
- John Ruskin-

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he
knows that you are slightly cracked.
-Bernard Meltzer-

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
-Buddha-

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which
are the real ones after all.
-Laura Ingalls Wilder-

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart.
-Henry Clay-

Unthankfulness is theft.
-Martin Luther-

The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
-William James-

When someone does something good, applaud!
You will make two people happy.
-Samuel Goldwyn-

If spring came but once a century instead of once a year,
or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence,
what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts
to behold the miraculous change.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

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

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
-Robert H. Schuller-

It is only when we truly know and understand
that we have a limited time on earth
and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up
that we will begin to live each day to the fullest,
as if it were the only one we had.
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross-

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
-Jacques Maritain-

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues,
but the parent of all the others.
-Marcus T Cicero-

Only he who has seen better days
and lives to see better days again knows their full value.
-Mark Twain-

The best revenge is massive success.
-Frank Sinatra-