Grizz Chapman Quotes

Every year, I appreciate life more because of the deeper understanding of what it took to get this far.

Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

I think sometimes in life we rush and only later look back and say, 'Wow, that was something pretty cool that I did,' and we realize we should have been more aware while it was happening.

Well, I'm grateful for all the experiences that I've had.

I was lucky in the sense that I was never blessed with an overly reflective nature.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'

I thank God I didn't become successful until I was older.

The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields.

Little Zac had it easy - but he didn't realize he had it easy, so he took it for granted. I think going through 'Hairspray' and other projects helped me learn about the business and life in general.

Death row saved my life. It taught me everything is a luxury to be treasured.

You learn that you can't take what's happened in the previous years for granted.

I can't help but be thankful, and really appreciate everything I have been through, good and bad, because it got me here!

I appreciate what I have a lot more than I did when I was younger.

I'm always thankful for the stuff I went through and thankful for the people I've met, and I'm thankful even for some of the bad times because all of it helps get you to wherever you are in your life.

I always think about the difficulties I had to make sure I don't get too comfortable.

You tend to take your journey for granted after a while, but when I pause and look back, I feel blessed that I had so many opportunities.

As I've grown older, I appreciate what I had at Lilly even more than I did back then.

As I get older - and wiser of course - I appreciate natural beauty in a different way.

People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

I promised myself that no matter where I went, what I did, I'd never take anything for granted again.

I think one of life's great milestones is when a person can look back and be almost as thankful for the setbacks as for the victories.

I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my druthers, it would never have been changed at all. What I learned from it is that today seems to be the hardest lesson of all. I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get. I learned to look at all the good in the world and to try to give some of it back because I believed in it completely and utterly.