Maureen Forrester Quotes

I have an appreciation for everywhere I've been so far.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

We can bring positive energy into our daily lives by smiling more, talking to strangers in line, replacing handshakes with hugs, and calling our friends just to tell them we love them.

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person.

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.

If I never do another thing, I've met the good, sweet people of the world.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.

I hate to sound like Julie the cruise director but it's people that I think about all the time.

My parents are the coolest of the cool on every single level, and it's because they have a deep appreciation for every moment of their lives.

Being able to travel and see the world really makes me appreciate the blessings in my life. There are so many people that will never get a chance to see some of the things that I've seen during my travels. I'll never take that for granted.

I find that the more I begin to look around, I see so much good that people do that goes unnoticed. So many wonderful things.

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging.

I was gifted with a life that was full of adventure. I've always believed, if you're gifted, that it's incumbent not to think about giving something back.

Gift giving is one of the oldest forms of human interaction. It is a behaviour all cultures and all classes share.

I would love to bring my mum to see me in shows and travel Europe with me because she has done so, so much for me.

You can make people feel valued or cared for by design alone. It's not purely about money. It's about how we choose to value human experience.

I just think my life's been really blessed, because being in show business, I've met wonderful people, and I've traveled all over the world.

I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.

It kind of renews my faith in humankind that there's long attention spans left out there that can listen to a 12-minute song.

I am blessed to have been able to travel the world doing what I do.

The truth is that we should live with less envy and more cordiality and empathy.