#appreciation

In prison, I fell in love with my country. I had loved her before then, but like most young people, my affection was little more than a simple appreciation for the comforts and privileges most Americans enjoyed and took for granted. It wasn't until I had lost America for a time that I realized how much I loved her. ↗

— John McCain

#faith #pow #faith

You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity. ↗

— Criss Jami

#cute #difficulties #disobedience #evidence #funny

What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#carpe-diem #completion #life #life

Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#black #colors #humanity #individuality #life

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

— Voltaire

#appreciation

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#appreciation

Percy," Grover said, "the gods really don't appreciate people sitting in their thrones. I mean like turn-you-into-a-pile-of-ashes don't appreciate it. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#percy-jackson #poseidon #appreciation

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#wisdom #wonder #appreciation

Every one of my fans is so special to me ↗

— Justin Bieber

#appreciation

Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#appreciation