Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.

—Margaret Cousins

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About Margaret Cousins

Portrait of Margaret Cousins

Margaret Elizabeth Cousins (née Gillespie; 7 November 1878 – 11 March 1954), known as Gretta Cousins, was an Irish-Indian educationist, suffragist and Theosophist, known for founding the All India Women's Conference (AIWC) and co-founding the Women's Indian Association (WIA).

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Getting what you want doesn't make you happy. Having doesn't make you happy: appreciating does. Happiness is more about appreciation than acquisition.

—Katherine Center in Happiness for Beginners

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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

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A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.

—Chögyam Trungpa in Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior

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Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money, on the daughter who held her tongue again and again. All this anonymous heroism.

—Peggy Noonan

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