quotations and passages on appreciation

Appreciation is like an insurance policy.
It has to be renewed every now and then.

Dave McIntyre

We are so often caught up in our destination that we forget
to appreciate the journey, especially the goodness of the
people we meet on the way. Appreciation is a wonderful
feeling; don't overlook it.

unattributed

You have it easily in your power to increase the sum
total of this world's happiness now. How?
By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to
someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today,
but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

Dale Carnegie

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the
highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

John F. Kennedy

You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done.
It is what you haven't done that will torment you.
The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation
for the present moment. Seize every second of your
life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them
up in any self-defeating ways means you've lost them forever.

Wayne Dyer

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

Voltaire

What you put out comes back.
The more you sincerely appreciate
life from the heart, the more the
magnetic energy of appreciation
attracts fulfilling life experiences
to you, both personally and
professionally. Learning how to
appreciate more consistently
offers many benefits and
applications. Appreciation is an
easy heart frequency to activate
and it can help shift your
perspectives quickly. Learning how
to appreciate both pleasant and even
seemingly unpleasant experiences is
a key to increased fulfillment.

Doc Childre and Sara Paddision

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation,
sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly
appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around
you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.

Ralph Marston

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me
learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect
tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so.

Mary Jean Irion

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

Mother Teresa

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able
to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation
of fundamental things like home, and love,
and understanding companionship.

Amelia Earhart

Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle
of being alive, on this planet, can turn what we call ordinary life
into a miracle. We come awake to such a realization when
we recognize our connection to a spiritual dimension.

Dan Wakefield

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

Elbert Hubbard

One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life.

Harry Hepner

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

Peter Sellers

Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.

Margaret Cousins

Being selective in choosing activities, in choosing friends, in choosing
material possessions fosters unexpected appreciation. Too much of
any one thing negates whatever specialness might have been realized.
If we surround ourselves with acquaintances, we never fully share in
knowing a few people well. If we surround ourselves with "toys," we
never learn how we really want to spend our time.

unattributed

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

Appreciation is like looking through
a wide-angle lens that lets you see
the entire forest, not just the one tree
limb you walked up on.

Doc Childre and Sara Paddison

The word "appreciation" means to be thankful and express
admiration, approval, or gratitude. It also means to grow or
appreciate in value. As you appreciate life, you become more
valuable—both to yourself and others.

Sara Paddison

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The more I focused on lack and on what I couldn’t have, the more depressed I became. The more depressed I became, the more I focused on lack. My soul whispered that what I really yearned for was not financial security but financial serenity. I was still—quiet enough to listen. At that moment I acknowledged the deep longing in my heart. What I hungered for was an inner peace that the world could not take away. I asked for help and committed to following wheresoever Spirit would lead me. For the first time in my life I discarded my five-year goals and became a seeker, a pilgrim, a sojourner.
When I surrendered my desire for security and sought serenity instead, I looked at my life with open eyes. I saw that I had much for which to be grateful. I felt humbled by my riches and regretted that I took for granted the abundance that already existed in my life. How could I expect more from the universe when I didn’t appreciate what I already had?

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Whatever our individual troubles and challenges may be, it's important
to pause every now and then to appreciate all that we have, on every level.
We need to literally "count our blessings," give thanks for them, allow
ourselves to enjoy them, and relish the experience of prosperity we already have.

Shakti Gawain

Articles and book excerpts on Appreciation:

Think of What You Have Richard Carlson

Appreciation is the oil that lubricates life and keeps your wheels turning
easily and freely. Without appreciation, your wheels will still spin, but they
are apt to become rusted with resentment and exhaustion. Since there is
great truth in the well-known statement "We teach people how to treat us,"
you can start teaching others to shower you with appreciation
by showering yourself first.

Sue Patton Thoele

I know how bad a thing it is to be a slave and I know how terrible it was but
I don't believe that there's a free person in the whole world that knows
how good a cup full of water can taste. Because you have to be a deprived slave,
to be kept waiting for your water like we were to really appreciate how good just
one swallow can be. When we finally got a drop on our tongues it was like
something straight from the hands of the Almighty.

Walter Mosley
from his novel 47

Never pass up an opportunity to speak a kind word of appreciation.
There are six billion people on the planet, and 5.9 billion of them go
to bed every night starving for one honest word of appreciation.

Matthew Kelly

I once succumbed to the fad of fasting and went for six days and nights without eating.
It wasn't difficult. I was less hungry at the end of the sixth day than I was at the end
of the second. Yet I know, as you know, people who would think they had
committed a crime if they let their families or employees go for six days without food;
but they will let them go for six days, and six weeks, and sometimes sixty years without
giving them the hearty appreciation that they crave almost as much as they crave food.

Dale Carnegie

There cannot be a sense of abundance or the experience of prosperity
without appreciation. You cannot find beauty unless you appreciate beauty.
You cannot find friendship unless you appreciate others. You cannot find
love unless you appreciate loving and being loved.
If you wish abundance, appreciate life.

William R. Miller

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