Norman Maclean Quotes

You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.

The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love.

I think love and beauty are what life is all about.

I have a great wife and it's very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she's happy.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

I am privileged to do a job I love to do. I would never change any moment from my life.

I embrace old age. Look, I'm never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I've learned to accept that. I got a pretty good life, and I'm very fortunate, and I have my blessings.

Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.

We may not know what each day has in store for us. We could be gone tomorrow. Any minute could truly be our goodbye. But we do have this moment. This time. Today. Right now. It takes way more effort to shell out hate then it does to allow love to flow freely in our lives. After all, it's what we were born to do.

What do we have in life, really? If we're lucky we get to a certain age, and we have each other. We have the food we like. We have our crazy little rituals. And we have each other.

Life's too short. We have to love each other.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.

It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life.

Because love encompasses everything, nothing is unimportant, including tonight's dinner menu. Think about it for a minute. If you were pure love, the loving parent of all life, how would you want people to eat?

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.