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"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: appreciation, life, speed, time

67 people liked it

"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 of My Fathers: A Family Memoir)

tags: appreciation, faith, pow

17 people liked it

"Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: admiration, appreciation, distraction, obstacles

8 people liked it

"The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act."
— Marcel Duchamp

tags: appreciation, art, creative, creativity, process

6 people liked it

"إن لم تقدّر صغائر الأمور.. فكيف بأكبرها؟؟"
— ~ Dr مُعِزّة alIslam

tags: appreciation, تقدير

5 people liked it

"Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking."
— José Saramago (The Tale of the Unknown Island)

tags: appreciation, liking, ownership

3 people liked it

"Someone gave me this glass, and I really like this glass. It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight. I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table. I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it incredibly."
— Achaan Chah Subhaddo (Subato)

tags: appreciation, inspirational

3 people liked it

"My whole life I dreamed of having everything,
I dreamed of riches, I dreamed gold,
And when I woke to it all, I only, dreamed of simplicity."
— Sabrina Saunders

tags: appreciation, dream, experience, greed, inspirational, life, simplicity

3 people liked it

"Now and then, however, he is horribly thoughtless, and seems to take a real delight in giving me pain. Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer’s day."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: appreciation, undervalued

2 people liked it

"The surest way to lose the best in life is to fail to recognize it when you already have it."
— don't know

tags: appreciation

1 person liked it

"Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one."
— Ann Druyan

tags: ann, appreciation, carl, druyan, life, loss, love, memory, nostalgia, remember, sagan

1 person liked it

"Happiness needs sadness.
Success needs failure.
Benevolence needs evil.
Love needs hatred.
Victory needs defeat.
Pleasure needs pain.

You must experience and accept the extremes. Because if the contrast is lost, you lose appreciation; and when you lose appreciation, you lose the value of everything.
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— Philippos

tags: appreciation

1 person liked it

"You hardly lose a gift that's given to you."
— Ken Clarkson

tags: appreciation, awareness, gratitude, wisdom

1 person liked it