Hope Jahren Quotes

All of the awards, applause, Twitter followers, shoes, it will all go away eventually. But if I can leave the world slightly more hopeful, inspired, and more healed than when I arrived, I did my job.

We're only on the earth for a short period of time. Movies aren't enough. I want to take my success and parlay it into something bigger and better.

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

Time is very precious to me. I don't know how much I have left and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I will have said something that will be important to other people too.

If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Life will go on - until it doesn't.

Everyone has to die someday. I'd rather die after doing something worthwhile.

People have built me up to be untouchable, unbeatable, invincible, and I'm not that. I am a man, and I am a winner, but that can change in a second.

I am not here forever, so I wanted to do the best for the coming generation.

We are none of us promised anything but the last breath we take.

This could all end at any moment...Therefore, be self-controlled.

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

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.

Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!

I think - you know, I'm a guy that - I don't live on the earth just to walk it. I live on here to make a difference.

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

I'm gonna live till I die.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.

I've been through so much in my life. I've seen so much. I know how fast things can change. I know someone can be here one minute and gone the next.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.