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“We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.”
Seneca
“Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done.”
W. H. Auden
“Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it”
Blaise Pascal
“Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.”
St. Teresa of Avila
“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.”
Dalai Lama
“Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.”
Ambrose Bierce
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
William James
“There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.”
Alexander Smith
“When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have”
Stephen Hawking
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