Richard E. Byrd Quotes

I nearly died three times in 2008, and when you go through those experiences, you realize that you're blessed every day that you wake up. My world changed, my life changed, and with the help of my wife Jane, I was able to survive.

I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

We're living or dying. We're already dead, the living dead. So do what you gotta do. Take care of your family, of yourself as a whole, and everything will be alright.

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

When I got out of the hospital, it was one of those classic things - you're looking death in the eye, and it changes you. I thought, I ought to go back on the road.

You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally.

My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

I am always naturally drawn to heroines that have human flaws because I enjoy people that have lived their life with courage and make big successes and big failures.

What happened to me in Somalia doesn't define me.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people.

Once you've stared death in the face, every day is a good day.

I think we would be dead and gone if we were just mostly failing.

Having life taken away from you for a little while forces you to be more open-minded and to go live.

Paule Marshall does not let the black women in her fiction lose. While they lose friends, lovers, husbands, homes, or jobs, they always find themselves.

I think having near-death experiences, they sure made me free.

But don't forget who you really are. And I'm not talking about your so-called real name. All names are made up by someone else, even the one your parents gave you. You know who you really are. When you're alone at night, looking up at the stars, or maybe lying in your bed in total darkness, you know that nameless person inside you...Your muscles will toughen. So will your heart and soul. That's necessary for survival. But don't lose touch with that person deep inside you, or else you won't really have survived at all.

You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.

I've gone through so much in my life. I should have been dead a long time ago, but I am still here, and I'm the happiest I've ever been.

Strength is life, Weakness is death.