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

Learn to appreciate what you have, before time makes you appreciate what you had.

If you cannot appreciate what you don’t have before you have it, you will not appreciate it after you have it. Period. We thrive on the idea of being able to change our surroundings to suit our needs, and we promise ourselves to change so many things once we finally get that one wish.

Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast: but of the things which thou hast, select the best, and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought, if thou hadst them not. At the same time, however, take care that thou dost not, through being so pleased with them, accustom thyself to overvalue them, so as to be disturbed if ever thou shouldst not have them.

Sometimes, you have to almost lose something before you really appreciate what you have.

People don't see what they have, they're busy looking at what they don't have and worrying about how they can get there, and yet when they start by appreciating what they have, then their lives will be different and their goal in life will not be to project what they don't have and to use it to define themselves when they can learn to define themselves by what they have.

Its not until you lose everything that you can truly apreciate everything

Whenever you appreciate a certain thing you become conscious of its real quality, and whenever you become conscious of the quality of anything, you begin to develop that quality in yourself. When we appreciate the worth of a person, we tend to impress the idea of that worth in our own minds, and thereby cause the same effect to be produced, in a measure, in ourselves.

Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.

Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime,
Il faut aimer ce que l'on a.

Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime,
Il faut aimer ce que l'on a.

If all you did was look for things to appreciate, you would live a joyously spectacular life.

When you have not what you love, you must fain love what you have.

When you have not what you love, you must fain love what you have.