Shaun King Quotes

We don't ever realize how precious life is while we're living it.

You can't take life for granted.

I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.

You're just grateful for every day, grateful for every game you get to play in because you never know when it's going to be taken from you.

You can better embrace life, you can enjoy it more, when you are conscious that it will end. You bite life.

Ya know, right now the most important thing in my life is to make sure you understand that, first of all I thank God I'm alive today, and I mean that. I spent too many years of my life thinking that the big party was the whole thing.

It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

I've titled this book 'Eighty Is Not Enough' not just for the obvious play on words, but as a way of expressing the single idea that has governed my entire life, that every moment of life is precious, that every step we take is an adventure, that every day on earth is a gift from God.

I love what I do, and I just remember that every breath and every moment is a gift and it can be taken away at any time, so I want to appreciate it and be grateful for it while it's here.

As you get older, you see life is very short, so you have to appreciate more and more and to enjoy it.

We need to appreciate how precious life is.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

Life is not promised forever. That's the biggest thing that I learned and I enjoy and I will take with me past this pandemic, is just being able to appreciate every little thing that goes on.

Don't take life for granted.

Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.

Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead.

I had gone through a near-death experience, and that gives you an insight into how fleeting life is, and what's important.

You get to a certain point - gratefully - when you're out of your twenties, and you realize how fleeting life is. So, it becomes important to feel as if the people in your life know exactly how you feel about them at all times.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.

You get one life. I'm going to embrace mine.

Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

A life-threatening illness or two certainly gives you an awareness of your own mortality. It heightens your sense of gratitude for things that previously, if you've not taken them for granted, you perhaps never appreciated how precious they were. That's almost a platitude, but one has to state the obvious.