Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of life.
A peaceful mind appreciates the present moment as the living embodiment of naked perfection, rather than a means to future attainment.
The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
Sex is more than an act of pleasure, it is a way of showing your appreciation and love to the loved body through her senses.
Your personal capacity to handle more valuable projects will go up when you appreciate yourself more.
I definitely felt like I needed a break, because when you do so much, you're not able to appreciate the things that you accomplish.
Although I may not like the different streets and paths life has taken me through, I have come to appreciate them afterwards.
Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
This idea of perpetual happiness is crazy and overrated, because those dark moments fuel you for the next bright moments; each one helps you appreciate the other.
You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
We act as a conduit for the observers’ unexpressed desires, the silent appreciation they may contain for anything; a lover, a river, a building even
The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.
I wouldn't say I'm a mummy's girl, but I have grown to have a tremendous appreciation of her as a woman. I was very much a daddy's girl.
When you mimic everyone, sometimes authority figures really don't appreciate it which is not an original story. And pretty much every comedian has some tale of that.
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.
Childhood has definitely been invented, hasn't it? I think that's because people had children later, and we appreciate and cherish childhood a lot more.
Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.
It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at the heart of aesthetic appreciation.
In Sheffield, we need support from the community and for the community. We need integration with no loss of heritage, and a clear appreciation of what is and is not acceptable.
