Quotes About Valuing Life

#1. Only those who do not use life as a reason for artificialities are intelligently valuing life.

Lao-Tzu

#2. We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of a pernicious assailant. The attacker must be stopped. At once and completely.

Jeff Cooper

#3. Blessing is essentially the transformative experience of knowing and honoring God as the Giver; it means valuing the steady flow that sustains the world even above the gift of life that each of us receives and is in time constrained to relinquish.

Ellen F. Davis

#4. The quintessential good and beauty in life is what each has to offer to others valuing the gesture ourselves into confluence with the Word of God.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#5. I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.

Anthony Bourdain

#6. I think love is the most important thing in life. Whatever kind, however you define it, but I think of it generally as being greatly valued by another human being and greatly valuing another human being.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#7. We need to regularly stop and take stock; to sit down and determine within ourselves which things are worth valuing and which things are not; which risks are worth the cost and which are not. Even the most confusing or hurtful aspects of life can be made more tolerable by clear seeing and by choice.

Epictetus

#8. Every day, God grants us the precious gift of life. Yet every day, we squander it with our selfish, petty concerns, rather than helping someone as He helps us.

Kirn Hans

#9. I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have for the arts, books, etc. There is a sweet, fine quality in life that has nothing to do with this, and more and more I find myself valuing myself with those people.

Sherwood Anderson

#10. Truly, only acting without thought of one's life is superior to valuing one's life.

Laozi

#11. We've poisoned our planet to a desperate degree. We have no idea of how severe the toxification is.

Benjamin Creme

#12. I know I am making the choice most dangerous to an artist in valuing life above art,

James Agee

#13. Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.

George Allen, Sr.

#14. I have a life that I enjoy; I try and value the things that I think are worth valuing and everything else is icing. You know, it is a kick to go down the red carpet in that dress and then you go back home.

Jewel

#15. Truths can be wholly contradictory, the blackest black and the whitest white at the same time.

Nadia Hashimi

#16. We go to school for twelve or more years during our childhoods and early adulthoods, and then we're done. But when the pace of change gets this fast, the only way to retain a lifelong working capacity is to engage in lifelong learning.

Thomas L. Friedman

#17. Good things come to those who wait. English Proverb

Bey Deckard

#18. The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.

Leland Ryken

#19. Generally office and home were far apart, and home was much more important than office. I was not ashamed of valuing my private life more highly than my work; that, to my mind, is what everyone ought to do.

Diana Athill

#20. I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.

Questlove

#21. My sister has been there for me through everything.

Brad Goreski

#22. Worshiping God even amid despair is a way to defy the Adversary and declare our valuing of the good-the best-in life: the Lord!

Jack W. Hayford

#23. We are disappointed at the decision. The president remains fully committed to building a culture of life ... that is built on valuing life at all stages.

Scott McClellan