Herz Quotes & Sayings

All your mistakes, all your scars, everything you've done wrong, that's what makes us who we are. — Christopher Herz

Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease.
[Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.] — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It depends on me whether life is good or not. Not on life, on me. — Alice Herz-Sommer

Everything is a present. Everything. This I learned to be thankful for everything. — Alice Herz-Sommer

I think backwards. "This was beautiful." Instead of forward. — Alice Herz-Sommer

I was born optimistic ... I was laughing from the beginning of my life. — Alice Herz-Sommer

Music was our food ... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music! — Alice Herz-Sommer

In any case, life is beautiful, extremely beautiful. And when you are old you appreciate it more. When you are older you think, you remember, you care and you appreciate. You are thankful for everything. For everything. — Alice Herz-Sommer

Only when we are so old, only, are we aware of the beauty of life. — Alice Herz-Sommer

On the woman's arm, walking her proudly down the street, was a tall man who, although old in physical age, walked with the pride of a king because he knew that the most valuable thing in his life was not in his wallet or his book of accomplishments, but was walking right next to him. — Christopher Herz

Be wary of people who go out of their way in charity. They're usually compensating for some evil they're trying to erase. — Christopher Herz

Soon, nobody was leaving their cubicles to talk anymore, and we were either e-mailing each other random thoughts or scheduling meetings, or speaking over an instant message chat. — Christopher Herz

Each time you give in like that, each time you back away from something you believe in, a piece of you dies that can never be brought back to life. Don't let anyone tell you not to care. It all matters. Everything. — Christopher Herz

Hatred eats the soul of the hater, not the hated. — Alice Herz-Sommer

Complaining doesn't change people ... All that complain, this is terrible ... It's not so terrible. — Alice Herz-Sommer

Every day in life is beautiful ... every day! — Alice Herz-Sommer

Books are alive and, just like people, sometimes are welcome and sometimes shown the door and asked to come back later. — Christopher Herz

Music saved my life and Music saves me still. — Alice Herz-Sommer

In his ... 'Geometrical peculiarities of the Pyramids', Ballard shows the relationship between the equal area theory and the golden number. After checking Herodotus' statement via dimensions Ballard concludes: 'I have therefore the authority of Herodotus to support the theory which I shall subsequently set forth, that this pyramid was the exponent of lines divided in mean and extreme ratio. — Roger Herz-Fischler

I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing — Alice Herz-Sommer

I know about the bad, but I look at the good thing. — Alice Herz-Sommer

The worst thing in life is boredom. When people don't know what to do with themselves, they are very, very poor. — Alice Herz-Sommer

Life is beautiful. You have to be thankful that we are living. Wherever you look is beauty. I know about the bad things, but I look for the good things. — Alice Herz-Sommer

Music was our way of remembering our inner selves, our values. — Alice Herz-Sommer

I felt that this is the only thing which helps me to have hope ... a sort of religion, actually. Music is God. — Alice Herz-Sommer

Every day is a miracle. No matter how bad my
circumstances, I have the freedom to choose my
attitude to life, even to find joy. Evil is not new.
It is up to us how we deal with both good and bad.
No one can take this power away from us. — Alice Herz-Sommer

I am Jewish, but Beethoven is my religion. — Alice Herz-Sommer

When you are optimistic, when you are not complaining, when you look at the good side of your life, everybody loves you. — Alice Herz-Sommer

And life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love. — Alice Herz-Sommer

You need to be careful of people who tell you that adventure exists at the next turn--because it turns out that they are not really walking into a story, but running away from a history that chases them throughout time. — Christopher Herz

My peace is gone, my heart is heavy.
[Ger., Meine Ruh ist hin,
Mein Herz ist schwer.] — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

And like the kids who'd taught Greg Glassman how to do gymnastics in the park, they were one another's teachers. "Coach believed that the moment you learned something, you had the responsibility to teach it," Amundson recalled in an account of CrossFit's founding days.7 "Everyone at CrossFit Santa Cruz learned the intricacies of the foundational movements, with the expectation they would teach the skills to others. — J.C. Herz

You know, we all have the same time in one day. What you do with it is the only thing different about us. — Christopher Herz

I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy. I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate. — Alice Herz-Sommer