Jack London Quotes

Don't wait until there is tragedy in your life. Don't wait until you lose somebody. Don't wait until it's too late. Appreciate the beautiful people that you have in your life now.

I do not have time to sit down and regret anything although sometimes I wish I had been able to see more of my parents while they were alive and have done more for them.

It's true what they say: 'You don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone.' I miss love. I miss being looked after.

You don't appreciate things until they're gone. For me, I miss my friends; I don't miss boxing, I miss the camaraderie.

I don't want to have to get the lesson of losing [things like health and moving about freely] to appreciate what it was.

You never realize how much you value something until you are faced with the prospect of losing it.

Sometimes we don't appreciate what we have until it's gone.

Don't wish today away. Don't waste it. Redeem one hour to be grateful. Let your thanksgiving rise above the din of disappointment - opportunities lost, mistakes made, the clamor of all that has not yet come.

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

I wish we could edit our lives, be more selective with whom we spend time and what we spend our money on. To appreciate more what we all have - we appreciate things more when we lose them.

We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.

Time And well being are two valuable belongings that we do not acknowledge and respect till they've been depleted.

It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.

We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss.

Chris Nielsen: Thank you for every kindness. Thank you for our children. For the first time I saw them. Thank you for being someone I was always proud to be with. For your guts, for your sweetness. For how you always looked, for how I always wanted to touch you. God, you were my life. I apologize for everytime I ever failed you. Especially this one.

What made something precious? Losing it and finding it.

... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.

It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.

I lost my dad. He lost his tomorrows and I lost all the tomorrows with him. You could say that now, I appreciate them when they come. Now, I want to make them the best they can possibly be.

The grass is not always greener on the other side. You learn to appreciate these people.

One Christmas at the very beginning of your twenties when your mother gives you a warm coat that she saved for months to buy, don’t look at her skeptically after she tells you she thought the coat was perfect for you. Don’t hold it up and say it’s longer than you like your coats to be and too puffy and possibly even too warm. Your mother will be dead by spring. That coat will be the last gift she gave you. You will regret the small thing you didn’t say for the rest of your life. Say thank you.

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

Most of us don't know about happiness until it's over.

Women? I'm still working on the subject. I haven't finished my studies. I would say I'm so happy that they're around. This is the salt and pepper of life. This is what makes me wake up in the morning - even more than work, really.

I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.