Anything in life that we don't accept
will simply make trouble for us
until we make peace with it.

- Shakti Gawain

Appreciation can make a day
even change a life.

 - Margaret Cousins

Be unselfish.
That is the first and final commandment for those
who would be useful and happy in their usefulness.
If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop
because you are choking the source of development,
which is spiritual expansion through thought of others."

- George Eliot

The privilege of a lifetime
is being who you are.

- Joseph Campbell

Accept yourself. Love yourself just as you are.
Your finest work, your best moments,
your joy, peace, and healing come when you love yourself.
You give a great gift to the world when you do that.
You give others permission to do the same:
to love themselves.
Revel in self love.
Roll in it. Bask in it, as you would the sunshine.

- Melody Beattie

Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see
just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is.
The emphasis is not on giving or buying,
but on being thankful
and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another. 

- John Clayton

To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of the intelligent people
and the affection of children;
to earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends;
to appreciate beauty;
to find the best in others;
to leave the world a bit better
whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;
to know that one life has breathed easier
because you lived here.
This is to have succeeded.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is appreciating to such a degree
that you feel overwhelmed with joy.

Appreciation makes people feel more important
than almost anything else you can give them.

One thing people always appreciate
 is being appreciated.