Appreciate Quotes - Page 31

• I believe that dreamers who simply imagine things that would be nice but are not possible don’t sufficiently appreciate the laws of the universe to understand the true implications of their desires, much less how to achieve them.

  Ray Dalio

  Nice, Believe, Law

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• Many countries today have begun the transition from an industrial wealth system and civilization to a knowledge-based system - without appreciating that a new wealth system is impossible without a corresponding new way of life.

  Alvin Toffler

  Country, Civilization, Today

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• Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. ... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal fragments for centuries is to appreciate in the most intimate way the permanent reverberations of July, 1916. When the air is damp you can smell rusted iron everywhere, even though you see only wheat and barley.

  Paul Fussell

  July, Air, Iron

  Paul Fussell (2013). “The Great War and Modern Memory”, p.68, Oxford University Press

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• That mainstream English is essential to our self-preservation is indisputable . . . but it is not necessary to abandon Spoken Soul to master Standard English, any more than it is necessary to abandon English to learn French or to deprecate jazz to appreciate classical music.

  John R. Rickford

  Self, Soul, Essentials

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• You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Children, Men, Serenity

  Gilles Deleuze, Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch (1971). “Masochism”, Zone Books (NY)

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• By developing individual strengths, guarding against weaknesses, and appreciating the strengths of other types, life will be more amusing, more interesting, and more of a daily adventure than it could possibly be if everyone were alike.

  Isabel Briggs Myers

  Adventure, Individual Strength, Interesting

  Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (1995). “Gifts differing: understanding personality type”, Davies-Black Publishing

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• It was curious that when we had been able to buy new clothes when we wanted we had never really appreciated them nor enjoyed them. You have to be in the position of needing things very badly indeed before you can appreciate possessing them.

  D.E. Stevenson

  Clothes, Able, Curious

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• Low self esteem is rooted in many things. One of them is not spending time to appreciate the gifts we've been given.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Self Esteem, Spending Time, Lows

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Dec 18, 2013

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• The revelation that we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it can be as refreshing as lemonade on a hot afternoon. Or it can be as startling as cold water being thrown in our face. How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we’re really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Rivers, Water, Hot

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• How could I expect more from the universe when I didn't appreciate what I already had?

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Universe

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, p.13, Random House

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• The less you demand total fulfillment from relationships, the more you can appreciate them for the beautiful tapestries they are, in which absolute and relative, perfect and imperfect, infinite and finite are marvelously interwoven. You can stop fighting the shifting tides of relative love and learn to ride them instead. And you come to appreciate more fully the simple, ordinary heroism involved in opening to another person and forging real intimacy.

  John Welwood

  Beautiful, Real, Fighting

  John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.52, Shambhala Publications

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• Just so you know, I hate camping. I'm not so much appreciating the fact that there's no bathroom out here. 'Nature calls' while walking in nature is on my list of least favorite things. You tigers, and men in general, have it so much easier than us girls.

  Colleen Houck

  Girl, Hate, Men

  Colleen Houck (2011). “Tiger's Curse: Tiger Saga”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• Happiness is not some 'thing' to be pursued it is a way of being born from appreciating

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Way, Born, Pursued

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• It is good to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now – this day – this hour.

  Charles Macomb Flandrau

  Littles, Life Is, Hours

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• Design is all about relationships. Unfortunately, many designers don’t fully appreciate this. Some of the best design work I’ve ever done was drinking coffee or beers with engineers, marketing people, and business development hustlers. And I wholeheartedly mean design work.

  Daniel Burka

  Drinking, Coffee, Mean

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• Until you see the cross as that which is done _by_ you, you will never appreciate that it is done _for_ you.

  John Scott

  Done, Crosses

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• Every woman should see herself looking uniquely breathtaking, in something tailored to celebrate her body, so that she is better able to appreciate her own beauty and better equipped to withstand the ideals of our narrow-waisted, narrow- minded culture.

  Susan Jane Gilman

  Culture, Body, Able

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• Not appreciating what we have now, robs us of our abundance even when it exists.

  Marshall Sylver

  Abundance

  Marshall Sylver (1997). “Passion Profit Power”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• To quote a recent customer email, “I really appreciate your thoughtful and professional response. I don’t get that a lot from customer service. Usually, it’s scripted nonsense that makes it seem like I’ve done something wrong. You’ve single-handedly improved my perception tenfold. Someone there ought to give you a pay raise."

  Matt Mickiewicz

  Thoughtful, Giving, Perception

  "12 Surefire Strategies to Increase Customer Loyalty". www.businessinsider.com. June 26, 2012.

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• Please remember, no matter what you go through in life, somebody else might have it harder. So just appreciate. I feel like in our world today, we focus on so many things that are completely pointless.

  Jessica Simpson

  Our World, Focus, Might

  "Jessica Simpson comments on weight-gain onstage" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. January 30, 2009.

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• Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very moment of their triumph without having thought, loved, suffered or enjoyed themselves.

  Rene Crevel

  Journey, Lines, Triumph

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• I don't want to make this sound negative at all, but in the best way possible I freaking give up. I give up. You can't try and make your life perfect. I'm just trying to have a good time, and I'm just trying to appreciate the things that I have around me. I give up on the 'dream' dream. I think that it's all a dream. I think it's all wonderful and terrible. And I give up in the nicest way.

  Fiona Apple

  Dream, Giving Up, Thinking

  "Fiona Apple: 'I Don't Really Have A Plan'". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. June 10, 2012.

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• If you appreciate the small things, you're likely to get the big ones.

  Jonas Eriksson

  Bigs, Ifs, Small Things

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• I appreciate that the New York Daily News will show dead bodies but blur the cover of a French parody magazine. Just out of respect, right guys?

  Jim Norton

  New York, Guy, News

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• Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Vastness, Lost, Strangeness

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.124, Xist Publishing

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