Preciousness Quotes

35 quotes by 30 authors

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
Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created… — John Steinbeck
Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else. — Charles Spurgeon
I tried to hold on to this compassion, sensing its preciousness, but even as I reached to grasp it, it dissipated into wisps. No revelation… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The preciousness of the moment, which should make it easier to talk, makes it harder. — John Green
Once we deeply trust that we ourselves are precious in God's eyes, we are able to recognize the preciousness of others and their unique places… — Henri Nouwen
When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense… — Sogyal Rinpoche
I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of the craft. — Kevin Barry
In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so… — Ram Dass
As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied. — Simon Schama
I was a news reporter for 16 years, seven of them a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. Perhaps the most… — Geraldine Brooks
There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and diversity. — John Piper
By struggling toovercome the pain and sadness that accompanies death, we become sharply aware of the dignity and preciousness of life anddevelop the compassion to… — Senoraroy
We must always respect the preciousness of human life and the preciousness of time -- both our own and that of others. — Senoraroy
We need to learn to dance with the preciousness of life and to appreciate each glorious moment. In this way we experience Gods love as… — Senoraroy

Who Wrote These Preciousness Quotes

30 authors contributed a total of 35 Preciousness Quotes, led by these top contributors: