It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of…

I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention.

— Mary Oliver

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…

— Kristi Yamaguchi

Returning hate, adding deeper darkness to a night that is already void of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We need to appreciate how precious life is.

— Shelley Fabares

I think that becoming a parent absolutely changes your entire life and certainly changes your work, and it has changed mine. It just allows…

— Sasha Alexander

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…

— Darren Shan

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,…

— Andrew Dice Clay

Finally, after a lot of searching and digging, it was simply the love of family that gave me a road into the character. Once…

— Jeanne Tripplehorn

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…

— Jeff Garcia

There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip through the hinges where you've hung it so…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the…

— Osamu Dazai

“Bound for your distant home" Bound for your distant home you were leaving alien lands. In an hour as sad as I’ve known I…

— Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“I ended up going into this big art historical argument.' [Barry Blinderman] invoked, for example, Matthias Grünewald’s Isenheim altarpiece, painted in the sixteenth century…

— Cynthia Carr