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Never
pass up an opportunity to speak a kind word of appreciation.
There are six billion people on the planet, and 5.9 billion
of them go
to bed every night starving for one honest word of
appreciation. -Matthew
Kelly
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Appreciation can make a day - even
change a life. Your willingness to put it into words
is all that is necessary.
-Margaret Cousins
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our individual troubles and challenges may be, it's
important
to pause every now and then to appreciate all that we have,
on every level. We need to literally "count our blessings," give
thanks for them, allow
ourselves to enjoy them, and relish the experience of
prosperity we already have. -Shakti
Gawain |
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Let us learn to appreciate there
will be times when the trees will be bare, and look
forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
-Peter Sellers
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word "appreciation" means to be thankful and
express
admiration, approval, or gratitude. It also means to
grow or
appreciate in value. As you appreciate life, you
become more
valuable—both to yourself and others.
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Appreciation
is like looking through
a wide-angle lens that lets you see
the entire forest, not just the one tree
limb you walked up on.
-Doc
Childre and Sara Paddison
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once succumbed to the fad of fasting and went for six days
and nights without eating. It wasn't difficult. I was less hungry at the end of
the sixth day than I was at the end
of the second. Yet I know, as you know, people who
would think they had
committed a crime if they let their families or employees go
for six days without food;
but they will let them go for six days, and six weeks, and
sometimes sixty years without
giving them the hearty appreciation that they crave almost
as much as they crave food. -Dale
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I
know how bad a thing it is to be a slave and I know how
terrible it was but
I don't believe that there's a free person in the whole
world that knows
how good a cup full of water can taste. Because you
have to be a deprived slave,
to be kept waiting for your water like we were to really
appreciate how good just
one swallow can be. When we finally got a drop on our
tongues it was like
something straight from the hands of the Almighty.
-Walter
Mosley (from his novel 47)
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One we discover how to appreciate
the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can
enjoy the best things in life.
-Harry Hepner
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are so often caught up in our destination that we forget
to appreciate the journey, especially the goodness of the
people we meet on the way. Appreciation is a wonderful
feeling; don't overlook it. -unattributed |
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Appreciation is the oil that lubricates
life and keeps your wheels turning
easily and freely. Without appreciation, your wheels
will still spin, but they
are apt to become rusted with resentment and
exhaustion. Since there is
great truth in the well-known statement "We teach
people how to treat us,"
you can start teaching others to shower you with
appreciation
by showering yourself first. -Sue
Patton Thoele
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What
you put out comes back. The more you sincerely
appreciate
life from the heart, the more the magnetic energy of
appreciation
attracts fulfilling life experiences
to you, both personally
and
professionally. Learning how to appreciate more
consistently
offers many benefits and
applications. Appreciation is
an
easy
heart frequency to activate
and it can help shift your
perspectives
quickly. Learning how
to appreciate both pleasant and
even
seemingly unpleasant experiences is a key to increased
fulfillment. -Doc
Childre and Sara Paddision
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Appreciation is like an insurance
policy. It has to be renewed every now and then.
-Dave
McIntyre |
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You
have it easily in your power to increase the sum
total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to
someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today,
but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
-Dale
Carnegie
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selective in choosing activities, in choosing friends, in
choosing
material possessions fosters unexpected appreciation.
Too much of
any one thing negates whatever specialness might have been
realized. If we surround ourselves with acquaintances, we never fully
share in
knowing a few people well. If we surround ourselves
with "toys," we
never learn how we really want to spend our time.
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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.
-Gilbert
Keith Chesterton
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The more I focused on lack and on what I
couldn’t have, the more depressed I became.
The more depressed I became, the more I focused on
lack. My soul
whispered that what I really yearned for was not financial
security but financial serenity.
I was still—quiet enough to listen.
At that moment I acknowledged the deep longing in my
heart. What I
hungered for was an inner peace that the world could not
take away. I
asked for help and committed to following wheresoever Spirit
would lead me. For
the first time in my life I discarded my five-year goals and
became a seeker, a pilgrim, a sojourner.
When
I surrendered my desire for security and sought serenity
instead, I looked at my life with open eyes.
I saw that I had much for which to be grateful.
I felt humbled by my riches and regretted that I took
for granted the abundance that already existed in my life.
How could I expect more from the universe when I
didn’t appreciate what I already had?
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we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the
highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by
them. -John
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You'll
seldom experience regret for anything that you've done.
It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop
an appreciation
for the present moment. Seize every second of your
life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using
them
up in any self-defeating ways means you've lost them
forever. -Wayne
Dyer
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Appreciation
of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle
of being alive, on this planet, can turn what we call
ordinary life
into a miracle. We come awake to such a realization when
we recognize our connection to a spiritual dimension.
-Dan
Wakefield
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appreciation in this world than for bread.
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Teresa |
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Normal
day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me
learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect
tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not
always be so. -Mary
Jean Irion
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Make
it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your
appreciation,
sincerely and without the expectation of anything in
return. Truly
appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many
others around
you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you
have more of it. -Ralph
Marston
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is a wonderful thing: It makes what is
excellent in others belong to us as well.
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more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able
to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation
of fundamental things like home, and love,
and understanding companionship.
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