Alice Herz Sommer Quotes

#1. Complaining doesn't change people ... All that complain, this is terrible ... It's not so terrible.

Alice Herz-Sommer

#2. I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy. I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate.

Alice Herz-Sommer

#3. In any case, life is beautiful, extremely beautiful. And when you are old you appreciate it more. When you are older you think, you remember, you care and you appreciate. You are thankful for everything. For everything.

Alice Herz-Sommer

#4. Understand that workaholics aren't productive people. Quite the contrary. A workaholic is someone who takes twice as much time to accomplish half as much as a Lazy Achiever.

Ernie J Zelinski

#5. Our point is that to reJesus the church, we need to go back to the daring, radical, strange, wonderful, inexplicable, unstoppable, marvelous, unsettling, disturbing, caring, powerful God-Man.

Michael Frost

#6. I have a home phone number, and I like it! It's like a throwback already.

Spike Jonze

#7. Genuine holiness is genuine Christlikeness, and genuine Christlikeness is genuine humanness - the only genuine humanness there is.

J.I. Packer

#8. Music saved my life and Music saves me still.

Alice Herz-Sommer

#9. Music was our food ... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music!

Alice Herz-Sommer

#10. I think backwards. "This was beautiful." Instead of forward.

Alice Herz-Sommer

#11. Only when we are so old, only, are we aware of the beauty of life.

Alice Herz-Sommer

#12. And life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.

Alice Herz-Sommer

#13. Every day in life is beautiful ... every day!

Alice Herz-Sommer

#14. The least responsive audience I can ever remember playing to.

Trent Reznor

#15. When you are optimistic, when you are not complaining, when you look at the good side of your life, everybody loves you.

Alice Herz-Sommer

#16. I felt that this is the only thing which helps me to have hope ... a sort of religion, actually. Music is God.

Alice Herz-Sommer

#17. The worst thing in life is boredom. When people don't know what to do with themselves, they are very, very poor.

Alice Herz-Sommer

#18. Everything in life responds to the song of the heart.

Ernest Holmes

#19. Hatred eats the soul of the hater, not the hated.

Alice Herz-Sommer

#20. Yes, I've been in an igloo. They're surprisingly cozy and warm - small, though, you can't really stand up in some.

Gary Paulsen

#21. I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing

Alice Herz-Sommer

#22. I know about the bad, but I look at the good thing.

Alice Herz-Sommer

#23. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.

John Sedgwick

#24. Music was our way of remembering our inner selves, our values.

Alice Herz-Sommer

#25. I was born optimistic ... I was laughing from the beginning of my life.

Alice Herz-Sommer

#26. In general, comedians are attracted to vice.

Natasha Leggero

#27. Everything is a present. Everything. This I learned to be thankful for everything.

Alice Herz-Sommer

#28. Every day is a miracle. No matter how bad my
circumstances, I have the freedom to choose my
attitude to life, even to find joy. Evil is not new.
It is up to us how we deal with both good and bad.
No one can take this power away from us.

Alice Herz-Sommer

#29. Life is beautiful. You have to be thankful that we are living. Wherever you look is beauty. I know about the bad things, but I look for the good things.

Alice Herz-Sommer

#30. A census taker once tried to test me. I let my front garden eat him.

Jonathan L. Howard

#31. I am Jewish, but Beethoven is my religion.

Alice Herz-Sommer

#32. It depends on me whether life is good or not. Not on life, on me.

Alice Herz-Sommer

#33. I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.

Umar