Quotes About Life's Preciousness

#1. It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life's preciousness on our tiny planet.

Ann Druyan

#2. By attaching our identity to things only a few can have, we ignore the intrinsic preciousness of all human life.

Parker J. Palmer

#3. For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

George Whitefield

#4. I choose to live in peace today. I choose to get lost in my inner beauty today.

Debasish Mridha

#5. To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life

Jack Kornfield

#6. Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.

Jackie Chan

#7. It was so wonderful! Now it felt as if my brain was just going to melt away. I wanted to stay like that forever, to stay in his arms for the rest of my life. That's how great it was.

Haruki Murakami

#8. Gradually we can begin to cherish the preciousness of our whole life just as it is, with its ups and downs, its failures and successes, its roughness and smoothness.

Pema Chodron

#9. I get kind of tired of the "But it's your life!" attitude about memoir. I wrote. I engaged in artistic production. I made a piece of art. Why the preciousness or mystical unicorns around "memoir"? I'm curious how you feel about it just now.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#10. I will try to write books until I drop dead.

Cornelia Funke

#11. Absent a sense of the preciousness of one's own life, why respect the life of anyone else?

Kentetsu Takamori

#12. Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man's most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource.

Steven Solomon

#13. This morning I awoke and was reminded of the preciousness of life. I realized I should express my gratitude to those who are so very important to me. Thank you for all you have done and have a great day!

Swapna Rajput

#14. You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

Ogden Nash

#15. So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way, and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches.

Rainn Wilson

#16. The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones.

Robert Jordan

#17. Through the skill and devotion to duty of their armed forces of all branches in the Midway area our citizens can now rejoice that a momentous victory is in the making.

Chester W. Nimitz

#18. I was very prejudiced when I started arts school. I, like all of those kids, was like, "I don't like this modern stuff." I came to arts school with a very stupid, conservative set of ideas about art.

Ragnar Kjartansson

#19. Instead of old spiritual distinctions you have new spiritual distinctions, instead of old worships you have new worships. You are all depending for your spirituality on someone else, for your happiness on someone else, for your enlightenment on someone else

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#20. In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence, an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss something that persists despite every reasonable theory that it shouldn't?

Sebastian Junger

#21. Your primary purpose is to be here fully, and to be total in whatever you do so that the preciousness of the present moment does not become reduced to a means to an end. And there you have your life purpose. That's the very foundation of your life.

Eckhart Tolle

#22. It was almost enough to make me feel emotion.

Jeff Lindsay

#23. The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and render it morbidly sensitive to the most trifling collision.

Washington Irving

#24. Education,' one of R's teachers taught, 'teaches you not to be yourself.' But who is yourself? R decided if it or he wasn't blood, it wasn't anything.

Kathy Acker

#25. Whatever your struggle, my brothers and sisters-mental or emotional or physical or otherwise-do not vote against the preciousness of life by ending it!

Jeffrey R. Holland

#26. Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?'
What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing

Don DeLillo

#27. You know, I can sort of control it now," I tell him, beaming. "I can moderate my strength levels."
"Good for you. I'll buy you a balloon the minute the world stops shitting on itself.

Tahereh Mafi

#28. In my career, I played for four different teams in a lot of different systems, and it's like learning another language.

Ron Jaworski

#29. Yet, let the thought of what life would be without Him enhance His preciousness.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon