Sara Paddison, Hidden Power of the Heart
The word "appreciation" means to be thankful and express admiration, approval, or gratitude. It also means to grow or appreciate in value. As you appreciate life, you become more valuable—both to yourself and others.

Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, From Chaos to Coherence
Appreciation is a powerful tool to shift perspective. Finding something to appreciate during a difficult situation quickly moves the perspective to the big picture from the little picture.

Sara Paddison, Hidden Power of the Heart
Appreciating each other is a true family value, one that will bail out much of the stress on the planet and help strengthen the universal bond all people have.

Doc Childre, The How To Book of Teen Self Discovery
When I start appreciating, I look at it like business. I start by appreciating life itself. After all, life is really a gift. It might not always seem like that's true, but it is. If nothing else, it's a gift of discovery. So I appreciate that!

Doc Childre and Sara Paddision, HeartMath Discovery Program
What you put out comes back. The more you sincerely appreciate life from the heart, the more the magnetic energy of appreciation attracts fulfilling life experiences to you, both personally and professionally. Learning how to appreciate more consistently offers many benefits and applications. Appreciation is an easy heart frequency to activate and it can help shift your perspectives quickly. Learning how to appreciate both pleasant and even seemingly unpleasant experiences is a key to increased fulfillment.

Mother Teresa
There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.

Louise Erdrich
In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world...Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying...on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace.

Albert Schweitzer
Hear our prayer O Lord...for animals that are overworked, underfed and cruelly treated; for all wistful creatures in capitivity that beat their wings against bars; for any that are hunted or lost or deserted or frightened or hungry; for all that must be put to death...and for those who deal with them, we ask a heart of compassion and gentle hands and kindly words.

Harper Lee
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Victor Kiam
What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working. That being the case, I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can. We should take pride in that.

Kahlil Gibran
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.