Bill Bryson Quotes

You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.

We need to appreciate how precious life is.

I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here.

It's wonderful to know you're aging, because that means you're still on the planet, right?

Embrace life. You have life. There's a lot things going on out there.

I sat thinking how terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as incredible as living. One day we suddenly take the fact that we exist for granted - and then, yes, then we don’t think about it anymore until we are about to leave the world again.

Life is beauty, admire it.

Try to have a good day today, wherever you are, whatever you do, whoever is near, if no one is near. Try to be happy, because you may not see tomorrow. There is someone this morning, who didn't wake up, who will never see this day. Try to feel lucky that this is not you.

I hope everyone wakes up and appreciates life.

Everyday above ground is a great day, remember that.

It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to.

My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.

As I get older... I start to realize that life ain't half bad. Each year, I'm amazed that I'm still alive. I don't take any of this for granted, I'm a lucky dude.

Do not wait for miracles to happen. The greatest miracle in life is life itself.

Once it's too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.

How good is life, the mere living!

We have life. That's what's beautiful.

I realize that most of us live on the skin - on the surface - without appreciating just how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all.

It's hard to remember that life is a miracle. We're just living it and we forget that.

Your life is a gift. Before anything else can be said about you, for some reason the universe (or God, or being, or force, or reality, or whatever you name it) chose to give you life.

Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.

I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive".

I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn’t get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn’t gotten to be a person yet.

Given another shot at life, I would seize every minute...look at it and really see it... live it...and never give it back. Stop sweating the small stuff. Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what. Instead, let's cherish the relationships we have with those who do love us.

dear god, whose name i do not know. thank you for my life. i forgot... how BIG... thank you. thank you for my life.