Valuing Life Quotes

I know I am making the choice most dangerous to an artist in valuing life above art, ~ James Agee

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

You are accompanied through life, Emily Jesse occasionally understood, not only by the beloved and accusing departed, but by your own ghost too, also accusing, also unappeased. ~ A.S. Byatt

Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him. ~ P.L. Travers

There is no greater path to mediocrity in life than trying to be realistic. ~ Sean Plott

spending life is easier than living life. ~ Ruchika Rastogi

How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard. ~ Philip Roth

If you're being punished," Clary said, "then so am I. Because all those things you felt, I
felt them too, but we can't - we have to stop feeling this way, because it's our only
chance."
Jace's hands were tight at his sides. "Our only chance for what?"
"To be together at all. Because otherwise we can't ever be around each other, not even
just in the same room, and I can't stand that. I'd rather have you in my life even as a
brother than not at all ~ Cassandra Clare

Spending my time living a life that looked great on Instagram, even as I rotted from the inside out since it gave me nothing of substance. All ~ Santino Hassell

What you have is Mitt Romney running around the country saying 'Well, you know, my wife tells me that what women really care about are economic issues, and when I listen to my wife, that's what I'm hearing.' Guess what? His wife has actually never worked a day in her life. ~ Barack Obama

America has tolerated inequality because people think they can get ahead. If you have immobility on top of inequality, then people are not going to be happy campers. If you're stuck on the bottom and there just isn't much churning in society and you're stuck there through your adulthood, that's not a nice life to look forward to. ~ Thomas B. Edsall

Inspiration is someone who gives you freedom to think out of his own ways. He doesn't want you to believe in his own ideas. ~ M.H. Rakib

May the Lord heal every sick soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Amos believed that people go way out of their way to avoid minor embarrassments and he decided very early on in his life that it was not worth it. ~ Amos Tversky

I did not have enough courage to go round to the back of the villa. I should certainly have been noticed by someone. Why in spite of this, did I have the feeling of having been there already–a long time ago? Don't we infact know in advance all the landscapes we see in our life? Can anything occur that is entirely new, that in depths of our being, we have not anticipated for a long time? ~ Bruno Schulz

I'm not big on trying to label it [my rap] or trying to prove people otherwise. I'm just making records that I like and that I wanna make. I'm just making records that relate to me and that relate to my life. If you listen to what I'm saying I'm not talking about anything that isn't my life. I take pride in having truthful lyrics. ~ Mike Stud

When life is lost, all is lost. ~ Sunday Adelaja

I work under three umbrellas: entertainment, education, and entrepreneurship. Of course the entertainment fragment speaks for itself because I'm in Chicago. However, a lot of folks may not know I teach courses at Ohio State University that covers life in professional sports. ~ Eddie George

There are people who enjoy the life in England but don't pay a penny in tax, whereas my footballers pay more than half their income in tax. ~ Gordon Taylor

ROMA 8.1. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. ROMA 8.2. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. ROMA 8.3. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: ROMA 8.4. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. ~ Anonymous

Of course, losing my father was traumatic. I was an only child. But from the time my father died, my general theme in life has been to turn adversity into opportunity. ~ Thomas G. Stemberg

If you do not have a close friendship with your children, I will.--Child Molester warning all parents from the book Type 1 Sociopath ~ P.A. Speers

They had tried to reproduce their own attitude to life upon the stage, and to dress up as the middle-class English people they actually were. ~ E. M. Forster

It is your life; no one can live it for you. You can blame no one for your life. ~ Debasish Mridha

I was a vegan for two years, and I really enjoyed it. Then, I got to a point in my life at which I wanted to do something else, so now I'm a vegetarian. You should make your diet one that best fits you and how you feel. Listen to your body. The most important thing is to exercise, drink lots of water, and take really good care of yourself. ~ Lea Michele

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. ~ Voltaire

When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve. ~ Pat Summerall

I'm totally Italian, but I'm not a diva. If you could see the way I'm dressed in daily life, that's not a diva. Appearances are so not important to me. ~ Patti LuPone

I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve. ~ Barack Obama

Life is head and shoulders above all other things we regard as precious in this world. ~ Sunday Adelaja

Life is full of surprises, a wise man said, and would not be worth having if it were not. ~ Richard Ford

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. ~ Seneca The Younger

When I hear that people live by the book, I always wonder which one. ~ Aleksandra Ninkovic

I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted - if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible. ~ Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

What about the rest of your life?"
She shrugged. "What about it?"
"Aren't you worried about, like, forever?"
"Forever is composed of nows," she says. ~ John Green

Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity. ~ Randy Thornhorn

Love is the miracle of divinity. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Her life was invariable, like a low hum; and it was watched over by her mother, who, when Edith was a child, would sit for hours watching her paint her pictures or play her piano, as if no other occupation were possible for either of them. ~ John Edward Williams

But Hazael only said, "I brought you a present."
Liraz took the flower, looked at it, and then a Hazael, expressionless. And then she ate it. She chewed the flower and swallowed it.
"Hmm," said Hazael. "Not the usual response."
"Oh, do you give flowers often?"
"Yes," he said. He probably did. Hazael had a way of enjoying life in spite of the many restrictions they lived under, being soldiers, and worse, being Misbegotten. "I hope it wasn't poisonous," he said lightly.
Liraz just shrugged. "There are worse ways to die. ~ Laini Taylor

Life in the Spirit of Jesus is therefore a life in which Jesus' coming into the world - his incarnation, his death, and resurrection - is lived out by those who have entered into the same obedient relationship to the Father which marked Jesus' own life. Having become sons and daughters as Jesus was Son, our lives become a continuation of Jesus' mission. ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen

Your life is a lot bigger than this moment. You need to remember that you can't let the trials you face right now derail your course forever. ~ Bree Despain

I couldn't deal with a normal life. ~ Sally Mann