Michael Arden Quotes

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

I think I'm very conscientious of how precious life is and how quickly life can be taken away from you, especially at times when it can be least expected.

We need to appreciate how precious life is.

I believe you must enjoy the life that God has given you. Cherish it, because it is all you have. You could be here right now, and in two seconds, you could be gone.

What makes us really human is it's in the presence of death that we start valuing life.

We all take life for granted, one way or another.

Having come so close to death, I now value just how precious life truly is and want to ride what God gave me until the wheels fall off.

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

None of us can be sure of how long we will live. Because this is so, I think you should try not to think too much about dying but think about all the nice things that make life so precious to us all.

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.

life is not so long that one can grow tired of it

As miserable as life may be I hold it pretty precious

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

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.

Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

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

Life is fleeting. It is to be enjoyed.

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.

Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now.

The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.

'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.

There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.

When your life is threatened, whether it's by human beings or by disease or whatever, you come to appreciate life.