Valerie Simpson Quotes

The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on.

I feel like I have a new life and I'm going to take full advantage of it.

I asked myself, 'What are you going to do with your life? Are you going to be like everyone else or are you going to do what's right?' I just made a decision. I said, 'It's time to grow up. It's time to start living for the Lord, do things the right way.' I accepted the Lord, and it changed my life.

I believe everything happens in life for a reason, and you just need to have faith and keep doing what you do.

I knew my life had been given back for a purpose.

I started making some proper decisions, getting things in order. It's kind of like cleaning up your house. I was looking for direction for what God wanted me to do - and that's when I got a call about The Passion.

Easter may seem boring to children, and it is blessedly unencumbered by the silly fun that plagues Christmas. Yet it contains the one thing needful for every human life: the good news of Resurrection.

God has a plan for everybody's life, so there was obviously a reason why He wanted me to go to Notre Dame. Everything happens for a reason.

My tag line for 'Silver Linings' is this: It's about a man who thinks his life is a movie produced by God.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

Change makes you find your calling, your legacy, and God's divine plan for your life. Don't run from it.

To me, I was just doing my job when I took the field, but to understand how close I came to death, I now realize what God has given me when he brought me into this world; he knew what he was doing.

I was running from the calling of God because I didn't want the responsibility of standing upright and living under a microscope. I know now that others' destinies rely on my destiny and purpose. I've accepted the challenge and am actively walking in that purpose.

I'm a true believer that God puts us in situations to help us ultimately get to where we need to be.

As far as I'm concerned, my life is just beginning. It's never too late to start over, so this is what I've been doing.

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

Truly, I'm not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young again and philosophical which means that I don't want to fritter away the new lease on life I've been given.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

I stepped out of my grave and into my life again.

In a way, I was born twice. I was born in 1934 and again in 1955 when I came to Pittsburgh. I am thankful to say that I lived two lives.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.

At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.