Precious Life Quotes:

I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Loss, Enemy, Precious Life

A word in season is most precious.

- Aesop

source: Aesop, George Fyler Townsend (1871). “Three Hundred Æsop's Fables”, p.98

topic: Life, Precious Life, Seasons

This precious life is our opportunity. We are not the millions and millions of other things that are not human.

- Tenzin Palmo

topic: Opportunity, Life Is, Precious Life

Who do you want to be in your one wild and precious life?

- Mary Oliver

topic: Want, Precious Life

A company and leaders of the company have the responsibility of the precious lives of all the human beings that work there.

- Simon Sinek

source: Source: www.quickbase.com

topic: Responsibility, Leader, Precious Life

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

topic: Taken, Thinking, How Precious Life Is, Life Is Precious, Precious Life

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

- Gordon B. Hinckley

source: "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.

topic: How Precious Life Is, Life Is Precious, Sacred, Precious Life

We need to appreciate how precious life is.

- Shelley Fabares

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Appreciate, How Precious Life Is, Needs, Life Is Precious, Precious Life

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

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

topic: Mom, Kids, Games, Precious Life, How Precious Life Is

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.67, Beacon Press

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Social Equality, Love And Hate

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

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

topic: Prayer, Blessed, Fall, Should I, Precious Life

I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. 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.

topic: Stars, Hate, Loss, Light And Darkness, Precious Life

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

topic: Cancer, Character, Family Love, Precious Life, How Precious Life Is

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

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Learned From Mistakes, Mistakes And Learning

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

topic: Lasts, Done, Should, Precious Life, Summer Days

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

- Mary Oliver

source: FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Mar 17, 2017

topic: Inspirational, Life, Teacher, Life Is Precious, Mindful Living

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

topic: Creating, People, Trying, Precious Life, How Precious Life Is

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate...

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Hate, Social Equality, Love And Hate, Make Peace Not War, Social Programs

If you're an atheist, you know, you believe, this is the only life you're going to get. It's a precious life. It's a beautiful life. Its something we should live to the full, to the end of our days. Where if you're religious and you believe in another life somehow, that means you don't live this life to the full because you think you're going to get another one. That's an awfully negative way to live a life. Being a atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily and fully

- Richard Dawkins

topic: Beautiful, Religious, Atheist, Precious Life

Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!

- Ruth Ozeki

topic: Life, Inspiring, Fleeting, Wake Up Now, Precious Life

Change that does not lead to liberation from fear, greed and delusion is not wholesome. Furthermore, any change that does not yield more compassion and loving-kindness for yourself and others is a waste of precious life energy.

- Phillip Moffitt

topic: Kindness, Compassion, Yield, Precious Life, Loving Kindness

The American electorate are getting disgusted with weaklings who blow where the wind takes them while frittering away our precious lifeblood and borrowing money from our new owners, the Chinese.

- Cindy Sheehan

topic: Blow, Wind, Chinese, Precious Life, Borrowing Money

I like the night. I like a slight terror to remind me how precious life is. Like I was sleeping with my smallest child and there were crazy coyotes howling outside. I knew how lucky I was to have her near me.

- Samantha Hunt

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Children, Crazy, Sleep, Precious Life

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

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Thinking, Parent, How Precious Life Is, Precious Life, Becoming A Parent

Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride, married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. Instructions for living a life: pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

- Mary Oliver

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

topic: Attention, World, Want, Precious Life, Bridegroom

There have been those moments in my life - in all of our lives - where you think, "I could literally be dead at any moment." Once you go down the rabbit hole, you realize how precious life is and you realize you never realized before how precious life is.

- Dominic Rains

source: Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

topic: Thinking, Realizing, Moments, Precious Life

Consider for a moment what you pay attention to all day long. What seems important to you, what do you take for granted and hardly attend to at all? Write it down. Do not judge your answers. Be honest and simple. As you keep track all week long, you'll be amazed at what claims your attention, what you give your precious life force to.

- Brenda Shoshanna

topic: Honesty, Writing, Simple, Precious Life, Do Not Judge

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

topic: Long, Funeral, Parent, Precious Life, How Precious Life Is

So precious life is! Even to the old, the hours are as a miser's coins!

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

topic: Life, Age, Coins, Precious Life

Life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they're precious.

- Stephen King

topic: Life, Real, Games, Butchers, Precious Life

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

- Rob Bell

topic: Inspiring, Order, Suffering, Precious Life, How Precious Life Is

Now I know my Redeemer lives. I know my Redeemer lives. Let all creation testify let this life within me cry. I know my Redeemer. He lives to take away my shame. And He lives forever I'll tproclaim That the payment for my sin was the precious life He gave. But now He's alive and there's an empty grave

- Nicole C. Mullen

topic: Forever, Redemption, Alive, Precious Life

I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

source: Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.56, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

topic: Quality, Vivid, Void, Precious Life

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

topic: Suicide, Dream, Regret, Precious Life, How Precious Life Is

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

- Penelope Fitzgerald

topic: Book, Blood, Purpose, Precious Life, Censoring

The best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is everything.

- John McGahern

source: John McGahern (2009). “Memoir”, p.107, Faber & Faber

topic: Journey, Calm, Life Is, Precious Life

It is a difficult lesson to learn today-to leave one's friends and family and deliberately practice the art of solitude for an hour or a day or a week. And yet, once it is done, I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

source: Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.34, Random House

topic: Art, Practice, Solitude, Precious Life

As long as you live, it is never too late to make amends. Take my advice, child. Don't waste your precious life with regrets and sorrow. Find a way to make right what was wrong, and then move on.

- Karen Hesse

topic: Children, Regret, Moving, Never Too Late, Amends

Life was precious. Life was fragile. Here one moment, gone the next. Every second should be milked for all it's worth because you never know when the bottom was going to drop out.

- Sandra Brown

topic: Next, Gone, Moments, Precious Life

We are going to die, as is everyone we adore - I hate this! But the question is, how do we live as women and men in the face of this? Why do we let ourselves be so distracted and obsessed by meaningless B.S. in light of having one short, precious life? When are we going to wake up and be fully alive to each other and nature and magic and wonder and Life with a capital L? When will we stop hitting the snooze button? And then, how alive are we willing to be?

- Anne Lamott

source: Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

topic: Hate, Men, Light, Precious Life, Snooze Button

So here we are, in our rare and precious lives, surrounded by gorgeous moments begging to be noticed and celebrated. Go! Celebrate!

- Sark

topic: Gorgeous, Moments, Celebrate, Precious Life

Every day, we are given countless opportunities to offer our gifts to those at work, in our families, our relationships.... If you give less than what you are, you dishonor the gift of your own precious life.

- Wayne Muller

topic: Opportunity, Giving, Our Relationship, Precious Life, Dishonor

He who makes time precious lives forever.

- Peter Megargee Brown

topic: Time, Forever, Making Time, Precious Life