Excerpts from the article : The Difference Between Approval and Appreciation
Appreciation ... It comes from the heart and is offered spontaneously as the heart wells up with feelings of delight, awe, joy, or love regarding another's way of being. Appreciation has much more to do with the essence of a person rather than with performance. We are appreciating a person's core Self, who they really are and the results of who they are, rather than what they do and their performance.
Appreciation is a true gift.
With appreciation, there is no attachment to the outcome, no expectation that the other should...