My life is a blessing every day that I get up. God saved my feet. How am I not going to use them?
Interpretation
Life is a precious gift, and we should appreciate every day and use our abilities to the fullest.
In this quote, Gail Devers expresses gratitude for life and the opportunities it brings. She emphasizes the importance of recognizing each day as a blessing and the responsibility to utilize our talents and abilities, in her case, her feet, to make the most out of life. This perspective highlights a proactive approach to living and a deep appreciation for the simple act of waking up each day.
In practice
This quote can serve as a reminder during motivational speeches about resilience and gratitude.
I always said a prayer before I ran, and my prayer was to win. My prayer was that God would allow me to run my best on that day, or better than my best. So whatever the outcome is, I have to be satisfied with it if I know I gave it my best effort.
One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long.
Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may be for the dust - the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.
I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.
I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.
I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown the sea. It makes me a little breathless, and yet it fills me with elation. I don't want to die, I want to live. I'm beginning to feel a new courage. I feel like one of those old sailors who set sail for undiscovered seas and I think my soul hankers for the unknown.
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