Top 52 Quotes About Appreciating What You Have
#1. Joy is not getting what you want. It's fully appreciating what you have. And it starts with the basics, like water.
Mark Batterson
#2. Joy is not getting what you want; it's appreciating what you have.
Mark Batterson
#3. Being truly thankful makes you infinitely more resourceful. By sincerely appreciating what you have, you find new and valuable ways to make use of it.
Ralph Marston
#4. Endeavour to appreciate life while you experience it, for some will never experience life again, because they are six feet inside the grave.
Auliq Ice
#5. I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.
Mitch Albom
#6. The other part of seeing what is on the block is appreciating how limited our own view is. We are limited by our sensory abilities, by our species membership, by our narrow attention - at least the last of which can be overcome.
Alexandra Horowitz
#7. Nothing is more inspiring in today's world of easily dissolved marriages than to observe a husband and wife quietly appreciating and enjoying each other's friendship year in and year out as they experience together the blessings and trials of mortality.
Marlin K. Jensen
#8. I certainly have the problem of focusing on doing everything now to get where I want to be, and not actually seeing and taking in and appreciating what's right in front of me or who's right in front of me.
Jonathan Keltz
#9. Leaders can create a high productivity level by providing the appropriate organizational structure and job design, and by acknowledging and appreciating hard work.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#10. #anks for the swim. You are a majestic swimmer," Simon said
as we neared the walkway to Wind Song.
"You talk a lot of crap, you know that?"
"I thank you for appreciating my verbal stylings," Simon replied,
with a formal bow.
Amanda Howells
#12. The critic is beneath the maker, but is his needed friend. The critic is not a base caviler, but the younger brother of genius. Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty. And of making others appreciate it ...
Margaret Fuller
#13. We waste too much time looking for the next thing and not appreciating what we have right now ... and right now, what we have, is endless opportunities.
J.M. Darhower
#14. Accepting and appreciating heart brings abundance in life but gratitude acknowledge and dance with joy of receiving.
Debasish Mridha
#15. I savor life. When you have anything that threatens life ... it prods you into stepping back and really appreciating the value of life and taking from it what you can.
Sonia Sotomayor
#16. True love is about appreciating each other unconditionally regardless of our title or position.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#17. When we appreciate a flower, we are really appreciating the beauty of our amazing minds.
Debasish Mridha
#18. The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.
Woody Allen
#19. I would like to do more in appreciating the mindset of the child. Maybe it has something to do with taking ourselves very seriously and with great disregard, as well as having a healthy does of awe and doubt for all else.
Meia Geddes
#20. My father ... very generous, very philanthropic, very charitable man. My siblings and I and my mother continue with always appreciating and always giving back. It's something I hope that I've become a role model for my children.
Steve Tisch
#21. Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change.
Atul Purohit
#22. Her father had admired her mother without ever truly understanding her. And her mother--her mother had relied on her father without appreciating him. There had been a gulf between them that couldn't be bridged by all the goodwill in the world.
Beatriz Williams
#23. I've learned a lot about perspective, about appreciating when you're healthy, the things that you have. I decided I was a super healer. I really believe in self-fulfilling prophecy that you are what you think you are.
Simon Whitfield
#24. Beauty is an understanding of what you have, and it's forgiving yourself of what you don't have, and appreciating all of it.
Jill Scott
#25. Have you seen what Gio's wearing? Is it tights? Please tell me it's tights."
"Should it weird me out that you want to ogle my husband's ass in a pair of tights?"
Dez just shook her head. "Not appreciating that ass would be like walking through the Sistine Chapel and not looking up.
Elizabeth Hunter
#26. Sometimes, until you do what you shouldn't have done, you least remember what you should have done
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#27. I am not what you call a civilised man! I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of appreciating. I do not, therefore, obey its laws, and I desire you never to allude to them before me again!
Jules Verne
#28. You travel to lush looted countries. parts of earth laying on their sides. barely breathing. hot with rust, infection, and tourist anemia. you and your camera arrive. start tearing at bodies with your lust. it's harmless. appreciating culture. sharing. honoring clothing. the way certain skin exists.
Nayyirah Waheed
#29. People are appreciating the old stuff again and there's no MTV-style scene police to try to make us all listen to Machine Head and Pantera *puke*!
Mat McNerney
#30. Flowers speak to us if we listen. Appreciating the blossom in hand or pausing in the garden to admire the beauty quiets our outer selves till we hear something new, something we did not hear before - the still, small voice of Nature herself.
Jean Hersey
#31. With Rock Band, you can play along to Black Sabbath or Nirvana and possibly find new ways of appreciating their artistry by being allowed to perform parallel to it. Rock Band puts you inside the guts of a song.
Carrie Brownstein
#32. Christmas teaches us to be loving, kind, giving, forgiving, and appreciating.
Debasish Mridha
#33. In appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred.
Fred Rogers
#34. We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#35. Imagine all the time we had was bottled up, like wine. and handed over to us. How would we make that bottle last? By sipping slowly, appreciating the taste, or by gulping?
Matt Haig
#36. I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further than appreciating a picture that is a rectangle with an object in the middle of it, which they can identify.
William Eggleston
#37. Not appreciating the noise until she was surrounded by silence.
Lisa Wingate
#38. There's an inherent contradiction between appreciating the beauty of clothes and creativity and individuality, and the waste around the ideas of trends and seasons.
Lily Cole
#39. One of my favourite messages about 'The Pirate Fairy' is that the story is about appreciating your own talents.
Christina Hendricks
#40. Not to live for the day, that would be materialistic - but to treasure the day. I realize that most of us live on the skin - on the surface - without appreciating just how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all.
Audrey Hepburn
#41. Nature understands no jesting; she is always true, always serious, always severe; she is always right, and the errors and faults are always those of man. The man incapable of appreciating her, she despises; and only to the apt, the pure, and the true, does she resign herself and reveal her secrets.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#42. Stanley wondered if this was how a condemned man felt on his way to the electric chair - appreciating all of the good things in life for the last time.
Louis Sachar
#43. Poe isn't for everyone. He's too heady a draught for that. He may not be for you. But there are secrets to appreciating Poe, and I shall let you in on one of the most important ones: read him aloud
Neil Gaiman
#44. Periods of silent solitude spent in introspective reflecting are sacred and a source of great strength and comfort. We can learn from listening to the rhythms of nature and from appreciating the eternal hush of the cosmos.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#45. The problem with the heart is how it can have so many opposite feelings coursing through it all at the same time. It's really an inconsistent thing- appreciating something one minute and hating it the next.
Joan Bauer
#46. Being single is about celebrating and appreciating your own space that you're in. I couldn't have lived alone before. I always needed someone to share my space but now I like being by myself. If I want to be with people then I see my friends; if I want a date then I'll have one.
Kelly Rowland
#47. I know for sure that appreciating whatever shows up for you in life changes your personal vibration. You radiate and generate more goodness for yourself when you're aware of all you have and not focusing on your have-nots.
Oprah Winfrey
#48. A person is both wise and wealthy when you master the art of appreciating what you already have.
Zelig Pliskin
#49. You know things are weird when you start appreciating your farts.
John Corey Whaley
#50. Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
Terry Brooks
#51. Whether it's putting on a bunny costume and running with friends, or simply appreciating the whining coming out of the guy next to you, races offer moments when you can simply enjoy the people around you and feel happy.
Dana L. Ayers
#52. Gratitude is a prayer of an appreciating heart for the great gift of life and its endless treasures.
Debasish Mridha
