“Sometimes I feel like relationships consist of telling your same life stories to different people until someone finally appreciates them.”

“My prayer is an attitude of pure gratitude for having the opportunity to experience life on this earth with all its pain, heartache, worry, and turmoil; coupled with this gratitude is the thankfulness for just having the opportunity to have lived. That is fairly easy on good days but difficult when life puts rocks and boulders in the road.”

“It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.”

“The best teacher kindles the fire of knowledge with appreciation and love of students whose hearts so eagerly desire to learn.”

“Life is a wonderfully fine thing. Go live it.”

“There is joy in every circumstance. Although the beginning is/might be bitter, there are valuables lessons in between that bring joy.”

“The Christmas after Mom & Dad split up, they both went crazy buying us presents. Matt, Jonny, and I were showered with gifts at home and at Dads apartment. I thought that was great. I was all in favor of my love being paid for with presents. This year all I got was a diary and a secondhand watch. Okay, I know this is corny, but this really is what Christmas is all about.”

“Expressing authentic appreciation doesn’t cost you anything and the outcomes are simply wonderful.”

“Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who’s with who and did you hear.”

“You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.”

“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.”

“Sometimes witchraft is when the heart is full of hate that it consumes your mind not appreciate good things that are done by other people.”

“Appreciation is a better stimulant than money. Money boosts the ego, but appreciation touches the soul.”