J. Cole
Rapper, songwriter
"To appreciate the sun you gotta know what rain is."
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Appreciate
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Nas
Rapper, Songwriter
"Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle."
Barack Obama
Politician
"If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate."
Confucius
Philosopher
"An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it."
Pema Chodron
Buddhist Teacher, Author
"Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life; it might be the only strawberry we'll ever eat. We could get depressed about it, or we could finally appreciate it and delight in the preciousness of every single moment of our life."
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"I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other."
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"I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine."
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"The Happiest people DO NOT necessarily have the BEST THINGS. They simply APPRECIATE the things they have."
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"Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience."
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"Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have."
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"I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses."
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"You can't appreciate the good times without the bad ones."
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"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence."
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"Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation."
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"You can be on the cusp of something. Appreciate the cusp, not the something. Appreciate this moment now."
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"Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering."
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"People really don't have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you. And just don't let that go to your head, whatever it is they give you."
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"The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval."
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"So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It'sa peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that."
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"Young children possess the ability to cut across the customary categories; to appreciate usually undiscerned links among realms, to respond effectively in a parallel manner to events which are usually categorized differently, and to capture these ori"
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"You have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for success."
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"It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it."
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"It must be one of those narcissists who only appreciate things when they're gone. I'm too sensitive. I need to be slightly numb in order to regain the enthusiasms I once had as a child."
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"Don't wait until there is tragedy in your life. Don't wait until you lose somebody. Don't wait until it's too late. Appreciate the beautiful people that you have in your life now."
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"I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt."
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