Bryce Courtenay Quotes

I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading my work, because readers are the highest form of life on this planet.

This is a gift that God has given me. I'm not smart enough to write for everybody, but it's the love in these books that comes from Him and goes out to my reading audience. I'm forever grateful for that. It's a privilege.

I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.

I've learned to appreciate everything that has been given to me.

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

I don't mean to complain. I wouldn't trade my life for anything.

I am grateful, you know. I have to be grateful in the sense that I feel that what I have is a gift.

I'm grateful to have the things that I have, and I've learnt not to take anything for granted.

I feel so honored that I've had the opportunity to share my story with so many people.

You have to be grateful for what you have.

No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.

You say their stories, it is gift they give you.

When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished.

When you suffer, you can look deeply at your situation and find the many blessings that are already surrounding you. It is wonderful to sit with a pen and paper and write down all the conditions for happiness that are already there, already available to you right in this moment.

It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.

I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.

Give thanks for all that shows up in your life including the stuff that you perceive to be negative, the things that you wish wouldn't have happened. Don't take anything forgranted.

There are so many people I would love to meet and say thank you for posting their videos, because hearing their stories and everything comforted me.

You may not be where you want to be, but you can look back and be thankful you're not where you used to be.

...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.

I try to be appreciative of what I have instead of bitter about what I’ve lost.

I wanna thank everybody - I wanna thank everybody in this room. And it's a privilege to be here this morning with you. So many distinguished members of our services, and that's really what you are, very, very highly distinguished members.

We should write an elegy for every day that has slipped through our lives unnoticed and unappreciated. Better still, we should write a song of thanksgiving for all the days that remain-now that we know how to cherish them.

It is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling - and indeed healthy - to ask why you have been given so much.