Alice Herz-Sommer famous quotes

03-18-2025

Life is beautiful. You have to be thankful that we are living. Wherever you look is beauty. I know about the bad things, but I look for the good things.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer

#Beautiful #Optimistic #Being Thankful
And life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer

#Beautiful #Love Is #Life Is
Music saved my life and Music saves me still.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer

#Save Me #Stills
I felt that this is the only thing which helps me to have hope... a sort of religion, actually. Music is God.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer

#Helping #Help Me #Music Is
In any case, life is beautiful, extremely beautiful. And when you are old you appreciate it more. When you are older you think, you remember, you care and you appreciate. You are thankful for everything. For everything.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer

#Beautiful #Thinking #Appreciate
Hatred eats the soul of the hater, not the hated.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer

#Hatred #Soul #Hated
I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy. I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer

#Beautiful #Hate #War
I think I am in my last days, but it doesn't really matter because I have had such a beautiful life.Â I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times - including my husband, my mother and my beloved son.Â Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy.Â I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate.Â Life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful.Â Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer

#Beautiful #Mother #Husband
Every day is a miracle. No matter how bad my circumstances, I have the freedom to choose my attitude to life, even to find joy. Evil is not new. It is up to us how we deal with both good and bad. No one can take this power away from us.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer

#Attitude #Evil #Joy
It depends on me whether life is good or not. Not on life, on me.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer

#Life Is Good #Life Is
I was born optimistic...I was laughing from the beginning of my life.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer

#Optimistic #Laughing #Optimism
Music was our food... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music!
-- Alice Herz-Sommer

#Music #Play #Terrible
Complaining doesn't change people... All that complain, this is terrible... It's not so terrible.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer

#People #Complaining #Terrible
The worst thing in life is boredom. When people don't know what to do with themselves, they are very, very poor.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer

#Book #Reading #People
I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing
-- Alice Herz-Sommer

#Laughter #Believe #Wonderful
I think backwards. "This was beautiful." Instead of forward.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer

#Thank You #Beautiful #Thinking
Everything is a present. Everything. This I learned to be thankful for everything.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer

#Thank You #Being Thankful
When you are optimistic, when you are not complaining, when you look at the good side of your life, everybody loves you.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer

#Love You #Optimistic #Complaining
Music was our way of remembering our inner selves, our values.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer

#Self #Way #Remember
Every day in life is beautiful...every day!
-- Alice Herz-Sommer

#Beautiful #Life Is Beautiful #Life Is
Only when we are so old, only, are we aware of the beauty of life.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer

#Beauty Of Life
I am Jewish, but Beethoven is my religion.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer
I know about the bad, but I look at the good thing.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer

#Looks #Good Things

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