Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain—and most fools do.

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

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

No duty is more urgent than giving thanks.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

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.

The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.

The day you stop caring what other people think of you, is the day your life begins.

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failings than to point out those of others.

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.