Life Is Precious Quotes - Page 2

• Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.

  William Martin

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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• I have found it very important in my own life to try to let go of my wishes and instead to live in hope. I am finding that when I choose to let go of my sometimes petty and superficial wishes and trust that my life is precious and meaningful in the eyes of God something really new, something beyond my own expectations begins to happen for me. (Finding My Way Home)

  Henri Nouwen

  Letting Go, Meaningful, Eye

  Henri J.M. Nouwen (2017). “You Are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Convergent Books

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• I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

  Boris Pasternak

  Inspirational, Life, Failure

  Doctor Zhivago ch. 13 (1958) (translation by Max Hayward and Manya Harari)

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• I don't think all life is precious. I know people say that all the time, "Life is precious." I think some life is precious, and some life is just a waste of protoplasm. Start over.

  Bill Maher

  Thinking, People, Starting Over

  Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. September 2008.

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• To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life.

  Nancy Reagan

  Inspirational, Life, God

  "'Just Say No'". Address to the Nation, edition.cnn.com. September 14, 1986.

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• Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.

  Lester Bangs

  Laughing, Funeral, Realizing

  "Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung" by Lester Bangs, edited by Greil Marcus, Random House/Vintage Books, (p. 222), 1988.

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• One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.

  Abraham Maslow

  Goal, Should, Teach

  "Motivation and Personality". Book by Abraham Maslow, p. 255, 1954.

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• Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.

  Fran Drescher

  Anger, Rooms, Life Is

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• Every human life is precious in God's sight and no effort should be spared in the attempt to promote throughout the world a genuine respect for the inalienable rights and dignity of individuals and peoples everywhere.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Rights, Sight, Effort

  "Pope Benedict on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11". the-american-catholic.com. September 11, 2011.

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• Countless people, suffering from many different diseases, stand to benefit from the answers stem cell research can provide. We owe it to ourselves and to our children to do everything in our power to find cures for these diseases - and soon. As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.

  Nancy Reagan

  Children, Cells, People

  "Reagans Cheer Obama Stem Cell Order — But Not Invited To Ceremony" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2009.

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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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• Life is a series of delicious moments.

  Esther Hicks

  Life Is, Moments, Series

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• Life is precious and it's what you do with it that keeps you alive on the inside.It's not enough just to live and take that gift for granted.Each one of us has fears,but the more we work to overome them,the more we are able to enjoy our lives.

  Demi Lovato

  Alive, Able, Granted

  Demi Lovato (2013). “Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year”, p.88, Macmillan

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• As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.

  Nancy Reagan

  Said, Stem Cell Research, Life Is

  "Nancy Reagan, Former First Lady, Dies at 94" by Julie Percha, abcnews.go.com. March 6, 2016.

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• My life is Avatar, your life is Precious.

  Ras Kass

  Rap, Hip Hop, Life Is

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• There is a danger in the word someday when what it means is “not this day.”...The scriptures make the danger of delay clear. It is that we may discover that we have run out of time. The God who gives us each day as a treasure will require an accounting. We will weep, and He will weep, if we have intended to repent and to serve Him in tomorrows which never came or have dreamt of yesterdays where the opportunity to act was past. This day is a precious gift of God. The thought “Someday I will” can be a thief of the opportunities of time and the blessings of eternity.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Inspirational, Bible, God

  FaceBook post by Henry B Eyring from Jan 08, 2015

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• Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it! Well, I'm telling you...you do have a terminal illness: It's called birth. You don't have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason--or you will never be at all.

  Dan Millman

  Inspirational, Happy, Time

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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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• I think that there are certain principles which should guide decision-making for a president. One such principle was that we're all God's children, and every life is precious. To me, that's a moral statement.

  George W. Bush

  Children, Thinking, Decision

  "George W. Bush Calls Foreign Aid A Moral And Security Imperative". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, nepr.net. April 13, 2017.

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• The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred , confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful.

  Billy Graham

  Life, Faith, God

  Billy Graham (2006). “Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith”, p.22, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Life isn't long enough to do all you could accomplish. And what a privilege even to be alive. In spite of all the pollutions and horrors, how beautiful this world is. Supposing you only saw the stars once every year. Think what you would think. The wonder of it!

  Tasha Tudor

  Life, Beautiful, Appreciation

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• We need to appreciate how precious life is.

  Shelley Fabares

  Appreciate, Needs, How Precious Life Is

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.

  Brian Jacques

  War, Evil, Justice

  Brian Jacques (2002). “Mossflower: A Tale from Redwall”, p.292, Penguin

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• Life is precious, so I ought to spend my days, you know, making sandwiches for homeless people and tending to the elderly in hospice care. Life is precious, so I should give everything away, except that I live in the world. And in the world, I actually have needs and wants, and I value my needs and wants. And I live in the world, and I can't just go make sandwiches every day because I also have to take kids to school. I also have to, you know, write books because that's my livelihood.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Book, School, Kids

  Source: www.npr.org

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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, How Precious Life Is

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