Jeffrey Pierce Quotes

But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn’t it?

Driving home, it's all I can do to keep from crying. Time's come, time's gone, time's never returning, I say to myself. What's here in front of me is all I've got, I decide, and as I drive my car through the blowing snow it doesn't seem like much, except for the kindness that I've just exchanged with an old lady, so I concentrate on that.

I always think everything is going to be my last job so every single day is a gift. This whole life is an accident for me.

Five years after Aerosmith got back together, I realized how fragile we are as humans. There was a time I thought we were bulletproof, but then things happened and I came to the realization that I had to play every gig as if it was my last show. You have to start thinking that way, because you never know what's going to happen next.

I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.

I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be.

We take things for granted, and because we wake up every day, you start talking about what you're going to do next week. I said, 'Who told you you would be here next week?'

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

I learnt too late that what is most important to us is always most precious at the moment it occurs, and it is precious in its absolute immediacy and not as some vague confirmation of future directions; since the only certain fact, aside from death, is the flimsiness of everything.

Touch each object as if tomorrow you would never be able to feel anything again.

I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.

Value our lives because we never know what day or what time itll be over, ... Rich, famous, whatever, it just makes you appreciate just seeing today.

Don't worry about something going away; enjoy it while it's happening. And don't worry about something that's not even real.

Take no moment for granted.

Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.

I live my life until there's no more living to be done. Because you never know when it's going to stop. Wake up tomorrow and it could all be gone, bro. All the cars, all the motorcycles, everything. All the memories. We could go into a state of emergency, you know, and the world goes to war. The money won't count for nothing.

Anything that is given can be at once taken away. We have to learn never to expect anything, and when it comes it's no more than a gift on loan.

Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying.

Don't take anything for granted, because tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.

It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.

I know I'm just one man trying to do one thing, and the next day is not promised to any man. I'm very humble.

What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I've realized nothing lasts.