#appreciation

I wake up in the morning and I see that flower, with the dew on its petals, and at the way it's folding out, and it makes me happy, she said. It's important to focus on the things in the here and now, I think. In a month, the flower will be shriveled and you will miss its beauty if you don't make the effort to do it now. Your life, eventually, is the same way. ↗

— Dan Buettner

#beauty #life #beauty

As I get older, my appreciation for wine has just increased. I fell in love with wine through my travels, but knowing what the wine country is all about definitely makes it my own. ↗

— Jeff Gordon

#appreciation #country #definitely #fell #get

Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid to devastated countries, defending us against terrorism, and fighting to make a free election possible in Iraq. ↗

— Christine Gregoire

#aid #appreciation #bringing #countries #defending

So I show appreciation for the little gifts that have been handed to me. ↗

— Terrence Howard

#been #gifts #handed #i #little

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

#expect #fail #get #great #greatest

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

If you can’t celebrate your success, appreciate your failure. Since life is all about celebration and appreciation. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#celebration #life

The whole problem with people is they know what matters but they don't choose it. ~Secret Lives of Bees ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#life #life-lessons #values-in-life #life

A man has only one escape from his old self — to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#love #love

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#appreciation #hidden-things #wild