Appreciation Quotes - Page 5

My Dad used to tell me not to wish my life away by praying it was Friday, or wishing for a day that was a ways off. Soon days will pass so fast you will pray for them to slow down. Nothing in life is promised. Each day is a valuable opportunity to play an important role in this world. Treat each moment like it's the performance of a lifetime; approach every show like it's your first, respect it as if you've invested years, appreciate it like it's your last.

Our joyful moments give us what we need, and then remembering them resupplies us once again.

You want to become a better person?Just give thanks. Give thanks for all of it.

The quality of your decisions can only be improved if you improve all these factors.

Sometimes I feel like relationships consist of telling your same life stories to different people until someone finally appreciates them.

Be willing to constantly travel towards the dreams of your future, and don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It's like they think it won't ever change. Just like this house here. All it ever needed was a little attention, and it would never have ended up like this in the first place.

Just because it isn't perfect, doesn't mean it isn't awesome.

The world exists because your mind exists. If your mind didn’t exist, there would be no world. As you look at these words, you see them in what appears to be a reality outside of you. What you are really seeing is the image that your mind is creating from the electrical signals being sent to your brain. While they may appear to be outside of you, this is an illusion, they exist within your own mind, and are being projected to appear as if they are outside of you. This apparent reality that is projected by our minds, is maya, and to believe that maya is the ultimate reality is a result of ignorance, or avidya in Sanskrit.

Sometimes, all it takes to lift the sadness from another is to let them know how much you appreciate them and how grateful you are having them in your life.

Focus on the future and the outcomes you want, not your present setbacks or failures.

Starting over begins when I develop a reawakened appreciation for what I already have, a renewed recognition of what I’ve recklessly forsaken, a rehabilitated understanding that I foolishly do both of those things, and a revitalized commitment to live the rest of my life never doing either of them again.

Everyone appreciates being appreciated.

Why are the desert blooms that spring to life after a monsoon so magnificent? The answer is – their impermanence. The lush growth and blooming flowers do not last very long here in the desert, and this new growth only happens once a year. If this growth was never-ending, we would soon take it for granted. Likewise, our human lives. What makes them so special and unique? Our fleeting impermanence.

Review how you spend your money and time across all areas of your life, and judge for yourself whether your investment in your mind is right for the future you want.

Take time to sense the abundance we have, as we don't have an abundance of time.

What difference does it make whether your work is appreciated or not? The work will still be yours. Anyway, most of us are only appreciated after we are dead.

We can't undo a single thing we have ever done, but we can make decisions today that propel us to the life we want and towards the healing we need.

I do not like selfish appreciationbecause it does not say nor speakinto my silence.Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria HermansReligion Of Blue Circle

Be unwilling to lose.

Without climbing the mountain of hardship, one may not know the joy of hope.

You were born for a purpose and a special reason.Your purpose identifies your passion, your potential, the source of your fulfilment in life, and ultimately your success

Don't waste your whole lifetime waiting for the perfect life when there's a perfectly good one within and right in front of you.

If you learn to be grateful and celebrate each day, you have mastered the secret to living.

Never go into battle for your ego, Learn to battle for something much greater.

We are only able to disrespect, mistreat, and harm one another when we forget that the other person is us; when we only see the objects of form, and not the subjective Consciousness that lies within. Lust, greed, violence, selfishness—all arise from perceiving others in terms of their individual differences, seeing them only as bodies, and what we can get from them as bodies, rather than acknowledging the Being that lies within the body.

In the success equation, subtraction comes before multiplication or addition. You must sow before you can reap a harvest.

Appreciating what I have is my medicine.

Your true being, as Consciousness, is ever at peace, ever at rest, eternally existing in the dimension of here and now. It is the formless and eternal quality within you that expresses itself through the world of form.

A life of passion is not an act or a habit but a lifestyle.

How you choose to live is one of the best indicators of the future you will have.

It wasn’t until I slowed the car and rolled down the windows that I realized I spend most of my days driving ‘through’ life without driving ‘in’ life. So, I’ve decided to walk because the pace is slower and the windows are always down.

Expressing authentic appreciation doesn’t cost you anything and the outcomes are simply wonderful.

There is a science to living well and art to experiencing the good life, and it begins with wisdom.

For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into half halves - to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a weekday. Do you think he cares to see only kneeling figures, and to hear only tones of prayer - and that He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the children as they roll among the hay? Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever rolled up from the 'dim religious light' of some solemn cathedral?

Asking questions is an essential daily habit, because your experiences are often in proportion to the questions you ask.

Your experiences are often in proportion to the questions you ask.

Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.

It wasn't until I started writing that I found a whole new appreciation for reading.

The promise of the future is only possible when the price is paid in full and in advance.

I asked Troit, ‘What was it about the gang leaders that made you want to be more like them?’Troit answered, ‘To be truthful, I used to feel good in their presence. I used to feel wanted in their presence. I used to feel appreciated in their presence. In their presence, you can sit down and talk and you can feel that they appreciate you. Troit Lynes, former death row inmate of Her Majesty Prison in The Bahamas

You were born with success in you and simply need to give it a pathway of expression.

You live like it is your best when you live on purpose.

Invest in books that will help you become the person you were born to be and do what you should do.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

You have the paintbrush in your hand, you can make the picture of your life brighter and bigger or duller and darker, it’s up to you.

Change in thinking + shift in perspective = change in your life

Master the art of finding something to celebrate about in each moment and life will become an exciting adventure

You rob yourself of reaching your maximum potential and the best chance of success when you try to succeed alone.

Scully,' [Mulder] said, his voice quiet and serious, 'with the... unorthodox explanations I often find when studying the evidence, I know you're always skeptical-but every time you're at least fair to me. You respect my opinion, even when you don't agree with it.' He looked at his hands. 'I don't know if I've ever told you, but I really appreciate that.'She looked at him and smiled. 'You've told me, Mulder. Maybe not in words... but you've told me.

Gratitude is incomplete without the act of giving thanks.

If you can manage your thoughts and mind, and choose your battles wisely, you can manage your life.

BlessBacks: Souvenirs for those who express their gratitude to their illuminators.

You are just as connected to the Universe as a finger is to a hand, or as a branch is to a tree. The entire cosmos is expressing itself through your being.

The best decisions are often those made from the creative part of your mind and not the emotional part of your heart.

The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted...Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin.

Appreciate what you have, while you have it, or you’ll learn what it meant to you after you lose it.

On the road to success, there is always room to share appreciation and gratitude for other people’s successes. Feeling gratitude for other people raises our own vibration, while adding cement to the bricks we lay. Finding the best qualities in others allows us to build those qualities within ourselves. And when we focus on our personal growth with open hearts and minds, the speed with which we construct dramatically increases, because all the while, we are attracting more like energy and like-minded people into our lives to assist us.

Criticism always produces negative reactions, but appreciation always creates positive actions.

...listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to some butterflies he had come across in the Swiss mountains the summer before. When they were folded up they were grey, mothlike creatures that one might easily overlook, but directly they opened their wings they became the loveliest things in the world, all rose-colour or heavenly blue. So had she been to him in the daylight that afternoon,--an ordinary woman, not in any way noticeable; but now listen to her, opening into beauty on the wings of her voice!