Life Appreciation Quotes

...nobody owes you anything, so when you get something, be appreciative. ~ Jason Reynolds

If life were perfect, we would never learn anything.
Thus, never appreciate life. ~ Zarina Bibi

The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life ... ~ Leo Tolstoy

Being able to appreciate who we are and what we have in the now is an easy way to journey through this life. ~ Raphael Zernoff

Notice the people you encounter in this life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The happiest people are not the ones with the best or the most things, but those who most appreciate what they have. ~ Oliver Gaspirtz

I had a dream that I knew it all…but then I woke up and appreciated the fact that I didn't know everything because then there would be nothing left to discover in life. ~ Starley Ard

Rejoice in your troubles, all things will work for your good. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Continual improvement involves an appreciation that there is always a better way to do things irrespective of how much you have achieved or how comfortable you might be with where you currently are in life. As a young international rugby player I learnt a valuable lesson about sacrifice. The bottom line was the phrase 'long after the price is forgotten the quality remains'. Undertaking JOLT Challenge involves sacrifice but it is well worth it as you explore creative and innovative ways of challenging yourself for constant improvement in many areas of life. ~ Nick Farr-Jones

I'm glad I didn't meet you when I was younger. I wouldn't have had the wisdom to appreciate and cherish you for the gift you are in my life. ~ Steve Maraboli

Through life, I want to walk gently. I want to treat all of life – the earth and its people – with reverence. I want to remove my shoes in the presence of holy ground. As much as possible, I want to walk in peace.

I want to walk lightly, even joyfully, through whatever days I am given. I want to laugh easily. I want to step carefully in and out of people's lives and relationships. I don't want to tread any heavier than necessary.

And throughout life, I think I would like to walk with more humility and less anger, more love and less fear. I want to walk confidently, but without arrogance. I want to walk in deep appreciation. I want to be genuinely thankful for life's extravagant, yet simple, gifts – a star-splattered night sky or a hot drink on an ice-cold day.

If life is a journey, then how I make that journey is important. How I walk through life. ~ Steve Goodier

Hold on to the center and make up your mind to rejoice in this paradise called life. ~ Laozi

There cannot be a sense of abundance or the experience of prosperity without appreciation. You cannot find beauty unless you appreciate beauty. You cannot find friendship unless you appreciate others. You cannot find love unless you appreciate loving and being loved. If you wish abundance, appreciate life. ~ William R. Miller

A warrior must cultivate the feeling that he has everything
needed for the extravagant journey that is his life. What counts
for a warrior is being alive. Life in itself is sufficient,
self-explanatory and complete.
Therefore, one may say without being presumptuous that the
experience of experiences is being alive. ~ Carlos Castaneda

I extend my appreciation to the associations, movements and all those who defend human life. ~ Pope Francis

Gratitude is an appreciation of life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Being thankful for something instantly grants that thing a depth it would not have had were I not thankful for it. And while I can certainly live without having had that kind of depth, in turn I will have died without ever having had any kind of life. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property. ~ Voltaire

Italian culture is so deeply soaked in an appreciation of the good things in life. ~ Mariska Hargitay

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

A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean that every literature major should take a watered-down physics course or that a corporate lawyer should stay abreast of quantum mechanics. Rather, it means that an appreciation for the methods of science is a useful asset for a responsible citizenry. What science teaches us, very significantly, is the correlation between factual evidence and general theories, something well illustrated in Einstein's life. ~ Walter Isaacson

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

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

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

Death or Samadhi, man's life leads only to the grave. Appreciate your life. ~ Usha Cosmico

Be grateful. You have enough and abundant life ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life. ~ Robert Brault

Looking down at the stiff, cream-colored rice paper--the good kind that came in the books that we had never been able to afford--I was both excited and apprehensive. Remembering my rather precipitous departure from that wood gatherer's house, I decided that much as I valued my friends, I wanted to read Bran's letter alone.
No one followed me as I walked out. Behind, I heard Oria saying, in a voice very different from what I was used to hearing from her, "Come, Master Jerrol, there's some good ale here, and I'll make you some bread and cheese…"
As I walked up to my room, I reflected on the fact that I did want to read it alone, and not have whatever it said read from my face. Then there was the fact that they all let me go off alone without a word said, though I knew they wanted to know what was in it.
It's that invisible barrier again, I thought, feeling peculiar. We can work all day at the same tasks, bathe together at the village bathhouse, and sit down together at meals, but then something comes up and suddenly I'm the Astiar and they are the vassals…just as at the village dances all the best posies and the finest plates are brought to me, but the young men all talk and laugh with the other girls.
Was this, then, to be my life? To always feel suspended midway between the aristocrat and the vassal traditions, and to belong truly to neither? ~ Sherwood Smith

There exists an infinite, eternal Being, subsisting of himself, who is one without being alone; for he finds in his own essence relations whence, with the necessary movement of his life, results the absolute plenitude of his perfection and his happiness. A Being unique and complete, God suffices to himself. ~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

We must not allow the conformity of our society to define us. ~ Debasish Mridha

The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free. ~ Joshua Nkomo

It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of 'laws' to what is found written on the statute books, and to disregard the gloss which life has written upon it. ~ Felix Frankfurter

I don't know when and I don't know how, but you'll get through this. And you'll kick life in the balls just as hard as it's kicked you. ~ Hester Young

Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs. ~ Joy Page

To feed death with her works is here life's doom. ~ Sri Aurobindo

, civilization is an ever-changing tacit agreement, culturally inherited, not chosen at birth. Civilization is the invention of man, my big friend. It is a means of ensuring order and structure; it is man's attempt to expunge all and every act of randomness from daily life. The ultimate goal of civilization is determinism, the complete absence of freewill. If everyone adhered to every rule, every demand, every decree of civilization, there would be no accidents, no arguments, no crime! Man would move through his life smoothly, like a well-oiled cog in a grandfather clock. ~ Peter Jelen

She said she never wanted to have secrets from me nor from herself, which is why she wanted to write down everything that otherwise would be hard to talk about. As I said, later I understood that someone who flees into honesty like that fears something, fears that her life will fill with something that can no longer be shared, a genuine secret, indescribable, unutterable. ~ Sandor Marai

My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses. ~ Billy Corgan

You have to look at a thing long enough for it to really show itself to you ... ~ Kate Milford

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life. ~ Julian Barnes

Many people think of similar great things, but only the few act on it; which makes them great. ~ Pontius Joseph

Read is my life
life is an adventure
read = adventure ~ EmmolCa

There is no perfect lover or perfect love, only longing for love and be beloved. ~ Debasish Mridha

I am thus led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative ... A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life. ~ E.L. Doctorow

An anti-racist person is on a life-long journey that includes forming new understanding of and ways to live her or his racial identity and then increasing commitment to and engagement in anti-racism actions ~ Louise Derman-Sparks

I decided that I want to live the rest of my life happy with what I'm doing. So when I play tennis again, I have to play it for the right reason. I don't want to play to get my No. 1 ranking back. I don't want to play for the attention, or to earn more. I don't even want to play because the world wants to see me do it, even though it's nice to know that the world is interested. I only want to play because I love the game, which is the reason I began to play at age seven in the first place. ~ Monica Seles

He gathered me closer, kissed my neck, then spoke in a low voice next to my ear. I figure, see, if you find yourself getting more attached to the two of us than you planned, maybe you won't think about picking up and leaving to start another life somewhere else. ~ Jenn Bennett

And don't even suggest that these would be better off in Tiercel's hands. No, Tiercel has other things to do with his life. You, on the other hand, get to protect him. And guess what that makes you?"
"Stupid?" Harrier suggested. "Suicidal?"
"A Knight-Mage!" the unicorn cried cheerfully. ~ Mercedes Lackey

Growing up in Rhode Island, I dreamed of a career in law enforcement. That hasn't worked out exactly as I had planned, but life seldom does. ~ James Langevin

It's a hard concept for me to wrap my head around to completely sacrifice any sort of love in your life, to never experience that on a personal level. ~ Leonardo DiCaprio

You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot. ~ Paul Cezanne

Never, ever, ever think that your life is over, but know always that each day, each hour, each moment is another beginning, another opportunity, another chance to re-create yourself anew. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

When I started 'This American Life', one of the reactions I got was, 'When is the adult going to show up who will host the show?' At some point, people just got used to it. ~ Ira Glass

Are you asking if I would have been better off if I'd never met my wife, or married her, or lost her? I'll tell you this, a day with her was better than a life without her. ~ Alice Hoffman

An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life. ~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir

You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily; those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn't working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women. ~ Emma Thompson

Yeah, I was just curious. I concentrated on my footsteps.
Yeah, well, next time you think about stepping into rock concerts you might want to bring a bodyguard.
I stopped and turned around. I brought my hands to my hips, a bit offended. What is that supposed to mean?
He dropped the end of the bat into the sand.
It means your small. ~ Holly Hood

Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a different way of approaching today's life and today's sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers. ~ David Amram