top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Until I saw Chardin's painting I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house in the half-cleared table in the corner of a tablecloth left awry in the knife beside the empty oyster shell."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Appreciation quotes
"Good things quickly become habitual and we often stop valuing them."
"Life can only be live with grace and gratitude."
"Embrace the sweetness of life like a gift honeycomb from the hive."
"Every once in a while God allows you to stub your toe as a kind reminder to be grateful for the miraculous body attached to it."
"God would have us cherish even the smallest of blessings, for in taking a blessing for granted we are well on our way to taking it to its grave."
"Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words."
"We appreciate things not for their beauty but for how they kindle our minds' generosity."
"The greatest wealth in the world is the wealth of time."
"Anything great will only be appreciated if I am given the opportunity to feel the absence of it, or experience the reversal of it. It is only then that I can even begin to understand its majesty and cherish it in the manner I should have all along."
"If you want to know the value of a day, ask someone who could not find food to eat or water to drink for a whole day when he is hungry."
Explore more quotes by Marcel Proust
"What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us."
"It is always thus impaled by a state of mind which is destined not to last that we make our irrevocable decisions."
"People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad."
"We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes."
"... seeking to indicate to her by the extent of his gratitude the corresponding intensity of the pleasures which it was in her power to bestow on him, the supreme pleasure being to guarantee him immunity, for as long as his love should last and he remain vulnerable, from the assaults of jealousy."
"It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is why, so very often the weight of the past lies ineluctably upon the present. But that is why it is so real in memory, so wholly itself, so far beyond replacement."
"Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things."
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
bottom of page