Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes

We should value what we have and not take it for granted.

What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

We should welcome applause whenever it comes.

We need to appreciate how precious life is.

I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I'm in.

When you're a child, you crave formal recognition; you crave ceremony, celebration, certification of proof.

Appreciate me for what I am doing.

Just being alive, staying human, I think that's infinitely precious.

I do not fear death, as I cherish life too much.

Don't take for granted things.

You have to be able to recognize the value of the people around you.

The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.

Attention is a strange sort of being, anyway, the idea of attention if someone appreciates your work. It's always nice that someone appreciates your work.

When was the last time anyone ever told you how important you are?

I just want to say thank you to everyone who watched and tuned in and loved my evil gayness.

Stay a little while longer, and let everyone congratulate you - including the ones who clearly don't want to: in fact, especially the ones who clearly don't want to. You don't have to say anything but 'thank you

I am very grateful to our people who appreciate my work and for their support, as without that support it would have been impossible to get anything done.

Gratitude is one of the chief graces of human existence and is crowned in heaven with a consciousness of unity.

It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.

It's great at this stage in my life to still be in the running, that people appreciate you.

Why should you feel honored for getting scraps of his time?

You got to learn to take what people are willing to give.

This is an award I couldn't have won on my own. I can't thank these guys enough. These are my guys, these are my brothers.

Just be quiet and accept the praise.