John Zimmerman Quotes

The thing is, I don't take anything for granted anymore - my family, my music, you name it.

When you have things taken away, you promise you'll never take anything for granted ever again.

I look back with a mix of emotions: sadness for the people who are gone, nostalgia for times that have passed, but immense gratitude for the wonderful opportunities that came my way.

Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift.

Why do we wait for tragedy to strike to tell someone how special they are, or how special they were?

I miss my son every day a little bit more, but I thank God every day for every second that he was here.

Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.

Many a blessing has been recognized too late.

It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.

we never know the blessings bestowed on us until we are separated from the possession of them.

There are people out there dying every day, so when you wake up, you just have to thank the Man Upstairs for another day on this planet. There's not much else we can ask for.

Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.

I really am pretty happy with what God gave me.

Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created.

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.

God was awfully good to me during the good days. I cherish the old days, but I don't miss them.

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

I have gotten some of the most beautiful experiences that a person can possibly ask for so I'm not at all complaining.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me.

Thank God for the journey.

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.

I thank God for making me a man.

There have been so many great moments, and I feel so blessed every day.