Irvin Mayfield Quotes

What's funny is that you can think you really value your life until you almost lose it.

I hope maybe 'The Returned,' in some small way, can contribute to the argument of the poignancy of human life and make people not take for granted things.

I always was one who didn't take things for granted. But I think I do appreciate things more now. The small moments of joy that we find each day are so much more precious now than when I looked at them before.

I can't take one day for granted. That's usually how I think.

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

The most important thing in the world is the moment you're in now, so take it and be grateful.

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

We're all - all of us - a minute away from dying. If you're aware of that, life becomes a little more precious. Also, you have a slightly different outlook. It's not so much "gimme, gimme."

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

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

Before we took down the tree each year, Dad would always say a prayer that we would be together the next Christmas. I cling to that prayer, which serves as a reminder that it's important to be grateful in the present for the people you love because, well, you never know.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, 'Ah, I am alive still!' All my friends die already. I am alive. It is fantastic.

Life has been good to me. It's not like I missed an awful lot. I had a pretty good lick here. Every moment gets a little more important.

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

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

The authentic experience, where is that? Living the moment. That is something that we're losing.

Ya know, right now the most important thing in my life is to make sure you understand that, first of all I thank God I'm alive today, and I mean that. I spent too many years of my life thinking that the big party was the whole thing.

I don't take any day for granted anymore.

It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.

It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

I'm having a good time. I'm going to treat every game and every day as if they are my last because I now know that they could be.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

I tried never to take anything for granted.

Nothing is worth more than this day.