How Precious Life Is Quotes

• You didn't want to die. Most mortals don't, even if they find themselves in as desolate and soul-destroying a spot as you. Almost all of those who take their own lives wish at the last moment that they hadn't. They see at the end how much they've given up, how precious life is, even when it's treated them like dirt and crushed their dreams. Many think they've passed beyond hope, but they never really have, not until they pass beyond life itself. Alas, that knowledge comes too late for most would-be-suicides and they die with regret. Very few are offered the chance that you have been handed.

  Darren Shan

  Suicide, Dream, Regret

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• I think that becoming a parent absolutely changes your entire life and certainly changes your work, and it has changed mine. It just allows you to have access to your emotions, even more than you already did. You're watching this little person grow in front of you, and you realize that you're seeing how precious life is and how quickly it goes. You get to things faster, even emotionally. I'm not as timid about reaching into some areas in myself and bringing that to my work.

  Sasha Alexander

  Thinking, Parent, Littles

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• Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

  Mary Oliver

  Inspirational, Life, Teacher

  FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Mar 17, 2017

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• I think I'm very conscientious of how precious life is and how quickly life can be taken away from you, especially at times when it can be least expected.

  Jeff Garcia

  Taken, Thinking, Life Is Precious

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• We need to appreciate how precious life is.

  Shelley Fabares

  Appreciate, Needs, Life Is Precious

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

  Walter Anderson

  Moving On, Thankful, Gratitude

  Walter Anderson (1997). “The Confidence Course: Seven Steps to Self-Fulfillment”, Harpercollins

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• Lost time is never found again.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Positive, Time

  Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.80

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• Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

  Al Franken

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Al Franken (2002). “Oh, the Things I Know!”, p.14, Penguin

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• Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

  Anne Lamott

  Creating, People, Trying

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• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Dec 25, 2011

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• Finally, after a lot of searching and digging, it was simply the love of family that gave me a road into the character. Once I got into that, and we delved into what it would be like to survive cancer and the ability to see how precious life is, it became easier to play her.

  Jeanne Tripplehorn

  Cancer, Character, Family Love

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• I've realized how precious life is. When I was younger, I was more adventurous. I felt invincible. I was game for everything. As a mom, I don't want to get injured because then I can't take care of my kids.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Mom, Kids, Games

  "'92 Olympian Yamaguchi balances road, family". Interview with Suzanne Riss, www.cnn.com. February 23, 2010.

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• Life is precious. Life is sacred. And it ought so to be observed.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Life Is Precious, Sacred, Ought

  "SUNDAY INTERVIEW - Musings of the Main Mormon / Gordon B. Hinckley, `president, prophet, seer and revelator' of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, sits at the top of one of the world's fastest-growing religions". Interview with Don Lattin, www.sfgate.com. April 13, 1997.

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• Life is a game, play it... Life is too precious, do not destroy it.

  Mother Teresa

  Life, Mother, Games

  "Life Is". Poem by Mother Teresa, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention.

  Mary Oliver

  Prayer, Attention, Pay

  Mary Oliver (2008). “The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays”, p.89, Beacon Press

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• Returning hate, adding deeper darkness to a night that is already void of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Stars, Hate, Loss

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• I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

  Mary Oliver

  Prayer, Blessed, Fall

  Mary Oliver (2008). “The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays”, p.65, Beacon Press

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• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Thankful, Character, Responsibility

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• I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.

  Walter Inglis Anderson

  Thankful, Pain, Grief

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• For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

  James Patterson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  James Patterson (2004). “Sam's letters to Jennifer”

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• Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?

  Mary Oliver

  Done, Lasts, Should

  Mary Oliver (2008). “The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays”, p.65, Beacon Press

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• Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Mother

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• It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of how precious life is.

  Rob Bell

  Inspiring, Order, Suffering

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• When you're at your own parents' funeral, when you're at somebody that you love's funeral, you realize how precious life is. And you say, "As long as I can walk and I'm healthy, there's always tomorrow."

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Long, Funeral, Parent

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