Roger Scruton Quotes

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

I don't take any day for granted anymore.

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

I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.

I very well could not be here right now. So I'm so grateful for every day I have, especially in living out my dreams.

Let us swell with gratitude and allow it to overwhelm us. It isn't as cliche as we make it; life truly is short. Let's spend it all lavishly wallowing in gratitude.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.

I always thought every day was a gift, but now I am looking for where to send the thank you note.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

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.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

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

'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.

When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not.

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.

We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.

I acknowledge my feeling and gratitude for life by praising the world and whoever made all these things.

Every day is a blessing - not to get too schmaltzy, but, really, it is.

I want to say that since my dad has been diagnosed, I really feel like I understand the meaning of life, and it is not how you die: it is how you live.

I try to take all of my experiences in and not take anything for granted.

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

I don't take for granted that I wake up. I appreciate it when I do, those times when it still happens.