Top 100 Appreciation Life Quotes
#1. 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.
G.K. Chesterton
#2. Becoming aware of the dearness in what might otherwise be regarded as mundane is the ultimate form of insight.
L.M. Browning
#3. Appreciation empowers not just money transactions, but all interactions. Gratitude is one of the greatest meditations of a lifetime, the fastest attitude uplifter I know. Be grateful for all the good in your life and your good will only increase, along with your happiness.
Alan Cohen
#4. No one who strives with full faith and heart for the blessings of eternal life will be denied. And how great will be the joy and how much deeper the appreciation then after enduring in patience and faith now.
Henry B. Eyring
#5. The painter's appreciation for beauty is more conscious, for he spends his life trying to communicate his feelings to others.
Emile Gruppe
#7. Life is for happiness and we feel it with appreciation and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#8. My entire life changed when I became a mother - my priorities, my understanding, appreciation of life, and my relationship with God.
Kourtney Kardashian
#9. Once upon a time,
there was a Zen sign
at every small railway crossing in America
Stop. Look. And listen.
Dick Allen
#10. Our painful experiences strengthen us in becoming more empathetic, more caring, and deeper human beings. We grow in depth of understanding, with greater appreciation for the miracle of life.
Alexandra Stoddard
#12. The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation of beauty, and of intellectual distinction, and of duty.
Alfred North Whitehead
#13. Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.
Ann Druyan
#14. Our lives are filled with meeting wonderful people. Make sure those that have become a part of your life hear your words of appreciation.
Ace Antonio Hall
#16. Nothing will enrich your life as much as the appreciation of art. If you want to 'Live Rich', you have to - absolutely have to - include art in your life.
Mark M. Ford
#19. The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful, but it is always irrelevant. For to appreciate a work of art, we must bring with us nothing from life, no knowledge of its affairs and ideas, no familiarity with its emotions.
Clive Bell
#20. Everyone who loves life is an artist at heart. Although it is sometimes difficult to love our world and our lot in life, failure to find the ability to love life and express appreciation for our world is tantamount to not existing at all.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#21. That was what counted, she told herself: those unexpected moments of appreciation, unanticipated glimpses of beauty or kindness - any of the things that attached us to this world, that made us forget, even for a moment, its pain and its transience.
Alexander McCall Smith
#22. post-traumatic growth could take five different forms: finding personal strength, gaining appreciation, forming deeper relationships, discovering more meaning in life, and seeing new possibilities.
Sheryl Sandberg
#23. The most evocative life memories, which produced a synesthesia of emotions, consist of a host of small pleasures intertwined with the homespun stitches of love, affection, kindness, humility, and appreciation of nature.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#24. To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect.
Alain De Botton
#25. Life has a way of shining on people who stand in the sunshine of kind actions.
Bryant McGill
#26. Young people must appreciate the beauty of old age. The old people were once young.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#27. Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
Christiane Northrup
#28. If life were perfect, we would never learn anything.
Thus, never appreciate life.
Zarina Bibi
#29. Through working in harmony with life's circumstances, Taoist understanding changes what others may percieve as negative into something positive.
Benjamin Hoff
#30. Italian culture is so deeply soaked in an appreciation of the good things in life.
Mariska Hargitay
#31. 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.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#32. Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
Vidya Balan
#33. Appreciate and value your time because this is the key to success
Sunday Adelaja
#34. That's the way life works: gratitude and appreciation just bring more goodness. Remember: Everything we give out comes back. Gratitude has all sorts of little, surprising rewards.
Louise Hay
#36. Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
Raymond Chandler
#37. I wish that I could marshall all the young to an appreciation of the fact that you have an earnest work in life and your amusements and recreations are only to help you along in that work.
Thomas De Witt Talmage
#38. The possession of muscular strength and the courage to use it in contests with other men for physical supremacy does not necessarily imply a lack of appreciation for the finer and better things of life.
Jack Johnson
#39. One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?
William Lyon Phelps
#40. Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill a creative soul with a passion and lead to a life's work.
Lewis Grizzard
#41. I'm Jewish and respect the traditions of Judaism, but through all the time I've spent photographing nature, I also have a deep appreciation for the power of the universe. No, not the power of the universe, but just celebrating life.
Louie Schwartzberg
#42. It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.
C.S. Lewis
#43. You can believe what you've been told. You can imagine in vivid detail the things explained to you. You may even feel emotions assumed to accompany the related experience. But you absolutely cannot know something with any real degree of understanding until you've personally walked the road yourself.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#44. Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today.
Steve Maraboli
#45. It's funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish.
Steve Maraboli
#46. Death or Samadhi, man's life leads only to the grave. Appreciate your life.
Usha Cosmico
#48. His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure
all the more intense for being held tightly in
his consistent view that every peril in life is a form of sport, a fierce game betwixt you and Fate, with Death as a forfeit, made him a wonderful companion at such hours.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#49. No matter how much fame you get, no matter how much money you make, no matter how much admiration you get, nothing feels as monumental as when someone tells you that something you did changed their outlook on life.
Zack W. Van
#51. I love my life! Even if I don't get what I want, when I want it, doesn't mean the world is against me, it just means God has other plans.
Andrea Jones
#52. Only one who has known how troubled life can be, has a real appreciation of it when it is good
Ludwig Bemelmans
#53. The more we express thanks, the more gratitude we feel. The more gratitude we feel, the more we express thanks. It's circular, and it leads to a happier life.
Steve Goodier
#54. Time ...
Once it's gone, it belongs to the past.
We do not hold on to the now, and
We do not treasure the future ...
We keep receiving this present, but we never open and cherish it until it is too late.
Until it comes no more.
Michelle Horst
#55. When you're stuck sitting in a comfort zone, small problems become magnified. Get out of your comfort zone, touch the edge, and you come back with an appreciation for life.
Barbara Warren
#56. Her mother, of course, would remind her that it was a woman's duty to marry and bear children. It was her only purpose in life. But then her mother had no appreciation for novels.
Jayne Fresina
#57. 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
#58. For, however old, plain, humble, desolate, afflicted we may be, so long as our hearts preserve the feeblest spark of life, they preserve also, shivering near that pale ember, a starved, ghostly longing for appreciation and affection.
Charlotte Bronte
#59. The words "I love you," spoken in moments of genuine appreciation, wonder, or caring arise from something perfectly pure within us - the capacity to open ourselves and say yes without reserve. Such moments of pure openheartedness bring us as close to natural perfection as we can come in this life.
John Welwood
#60. yet to be moved by music is essentially human; it reflects sensitivity. The life Gregor led as a human being left no room for this kind of appreciation. But, regressing into an animal, his sensibility has become refined rather than coarsened.
Franz Kafka
#61. I have spent all my life advocating on behalf of the poor, oppressed and marginalized. As a social justice and human rights activist, and now as President of the Republic of Malawi, I have a deep appreciation for the challenges of those on the margins of society.
Joyce Banda
#62. If life has taught me anything it's to appreciate what you've got. Take something for granted and it could be gone before you even realized what you had.
Kristen Callihan
#63. Hold on to the center and make up your mind to rejoice in this paradise called life.
Laozi
#64. I believe it is possible to find, at any stage in life, a new appreciation for what you have and what you don't have, as well as the people closest to you. There's a way to experience life that does not involve a phone or a tablet, or a television screen.
Jason Gay
#65. Don't discount this powerful use of appreciation. It is one of the great secrets of life. It's the feeling and emotion of appreciation that matters most, not the lip service.
D.S. Luca
#66. Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.
Adyashanti
#67. Associated with gratitude is virtue. I think they are related because he who is disposed to shun virtue lacks appreciation of life, its purposes, and the happiness and well-being of others.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#68. 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.
Charles F. Glassman
#69. Art Is One if Life's Richest Offerings. For those who have not the talent to create, there is appreciation.
Nathanael West
#70. Gratitude is the antidote for misery. When you are counting your blessings you are too busy to be counting your problems.
Miya Yamanouchi
#71. When life's conditions don't equal your expectations you are unhappy, have no expectations only appreciations (especially in the area of relationships)
Tony Robbins
#72. Life can be seen through your eyes but it is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart.
Mary Xavier Mehegan
#73. Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.
A.J. Cronin
#74. Your soul is your connection to the Divine. Sacred sex is an activity of joining souls in holy, celestial creation, expressing your appreciation for the gift of life, of sharing your body's vitality with another.
Brownell Landrum
#75. To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.
Oskar Homolka
#76. One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the Messiah, patience and deep appreciation of human individuality.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#77. Ours is thus a realism of lush and leafy spaces rather than deserts, with science regularly revealing new thickets of canopy. Anyone is welcome to go on sharing Quine's aesthetic appreciation of deserts, but we think the facts now suggest that we must reconcile ourselves to life in the rainforest.
Anonymous
#78. That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much - in just standing and staring and I was at it again this morning.
James Herriot
#79. There's nothing like realizing that you don't have much time left to stimulate your appreciation for the moments of your life.
Ruth Ozeki
#80. Just an observation: it is impossible to be both grateful and depressed. Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up.
Steve Maraboli
#81. If you want to change your life in the fastest way possible, trade your expectations of others for appreciation.
Tony Robbins
#82. My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.
[The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)]
Stephen Hawking
#83. Spirit Math: The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint.
Alan Cohen
#84. Be happy with who you are and what you do, and you can do anything you want.
Steve Maraboli
#85. Connecting with those you know love, like and appreciate you restores the spirit and give you energy to keep moving forward in this life.
Deborah Day
#86. Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
Margaret Cousins
Margaret Cousins
#87. I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.
Robert Brault
#89. If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
[Meditations Divine and Moral]
Anne Bradstreet
#90. The unasked-for gift of being with people at the end of their lives...is a simple but profound appreciation of the here and now of life itself.
Sue Halpern
#91. I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.
Timothy Ferriss
#93. Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of life.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#94. I think that pain gives us appreciation of joy - it's a package deal. And I definitely think that the joys of life far outweigh the pain.
Frederick Lenz
#95. Having a 'taste for life' is about knowing its various flavours and awaiting the next meal.
Fennel Hudson
#96. In suffering, you've found a greater understanding and appreciation for all of life's wonders. You're still trying to believe it every day. One morning you convince yourself it will all be worth it, the next you're down and believe it all to be worthless.
Connor Franta
#98. Live in absolute bliss. One moment of deep appreciation of beauty that surrounds you can change your perception of life.
Debasish Mridha
#99. Life is about using the whole box of crayons.
RuPaul
#100. Success is ... living a full and balanced life in partnership with others to create a joyful feeling of love, contribution, appreciation and abundance, despite how our endeavors may turn out.
Susan Jeffers
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