Reminded Of How Precious Each Day Is Quotes & Sayings

I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world. — Ronald Reagan

Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It's been hard times in America - how did we get this way? So scared all the time, — Ben Fountain

Why do I not forget? — Louise Gluck

Success," as Winston Churchill once said, "is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. — Amanda Ripley

It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out. — Samuel Butler

A prison chaplain in the West of England confessed he had given up one prisoner as hopeless, so stubborn was he against any approach by him, and known throughout the jail as the most truculent and obstinate troublemaker.
But one day the governor was told of a visitor who insisted on seeing him. To his surprise, it was a little girl. "He's my daddy," she explained, "It's his birthday." The governor allowed the prisoner to be sent for.
"Daddy," said the child as he was brought in, "this was your birthday, so I wanted to come and see you." Then taking a lock of hair out of her pocket, she offered it to him. "I had no money to buy a present for you. But I brought this, a lock of my own hair."
The prisoner broke down and clasped her in his arms, sobbing. He became a changed man after that and guarded, as his most precious possession, the lock of hair that reminded him that somebody still loved him. — Francis Gay

No matter what each day brings -- the trials and tribulations that may cross my path, the turmoil, the ugliness -- when I look at this picture I'm reminded that life is precious and there is still beauty in this world. — Ryan Troske

Everything is brand-new, I will be the first and only tribute to use this Launch Room. — Suzanne Collins

Time is a curious thing: For years you take it for granted, then one day something happens and you are reminded of how precious it really is... — Jason R. Hemmings

A FASCINATING PBS SPECIAL on black holes: the suck and draw so strong it can gulp down light. — Lauren Groff

I'm no longer a prisoner of my fears. Which really just means I'm using real butter. — Greg Behrendt

As we drifted to earth I sat up on the glass roof of the capsule, watching the beauty of the golden dawn as it broke over the desert. This was a day I never thought I'd see and the rising sun and growing warmth of the day seemed very precious. It made me aware that hard-won things are more valuable than those that come too easily. It reminded me to always enjoy the moment. — Richard Branson

There's something in everybody that longs for that awakening to be more true to yourself. — Eckhart Tolle