Ted Dekker Quotes

I am grateful for being alive today. It is my joy and pleasure to live another wonderful day.

It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive.

There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege.

I don't wonder about anything. I'm too old to wonder. I think the most important thing is to wake-up with a pulse. I look in the obituary columns. If I'm not in it, I get out of bed.

Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated.

Always wake up with a smile on your face, because a lot of people who went to sleep last night are not with us this morning.

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.

As I get older... I start to realize that life ain't half bad. Each year, I'm amazed that I'm still alive. I don't take any of this for granted, I'm a lucky dude.

I like my time on earth. And no matter what kind of cards I've been dealt, I'm happy to be there.

It's a great day to be alive. I know the sun's still shining when I close my eyes.

I've often wondered how a man who knew he was going to die could stand here and say he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth, but now I guess I know how he felt.

Gratitude is the confidence in life itself... As gratitude grows it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in our own good fortune and in the good fortune of others... We can be joyful for people we love, for moments of goodness, for sunlight and trees, and for the very breath within our lungs. Like an innocent child, we can rejoice in life itself, in being alive.

No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.

But I can say that life is good to me. Has been and is good. So I think my task is to be good to it. So how do you be good to life? You live it.

Ageing's a difficult thing, moving closer to death, but it's okay. I've had a good time living, so I'm gonna have a good time dying.

Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.

I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

I think about death all the time. I think that's a good thing because we're all going to die, and the only thing we can control is how we are and what we're doing in the meantime.

I feel like when you are really appreciative, it makes it easier to have a better outlook and perspective of life in general.

I'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving.

It's wonderful to know you're aging, because that means you're still on the planet, right?

If life's not funny, then it's just true - and that would be unacceptable.

I do not fear death, as I cherish life too much.