Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

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.

I know how hard it is to shoot the basketball, so I've got great appreciation for it.

When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

Count your blessings. You are one of a kind. There’s no one in the world like you. You are amazing.

There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than they need.

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means—either may do—the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Gratitude is the way to happiness.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.