Alice Herz-Sommer Quotes

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• 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

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• It depends on me whether life is good or not. Not on life, on me.

  Alice Herz-Sommer

  Life Is Good, Life Is, Depends

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• 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

  "Alice Herz-Sommer: 'Everything we experience is a gift we should pass on'" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2014.

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• Hatred eats the soul of the hater, not the hated.

  Alice Herz-Sommer

  Hate, Hatred, Soul

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• I think I am in my last days, but it doesn't really matter because I have had such a beautiful life. I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times - including my husband, my mother and my beloved son. Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy. I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate. 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, Mother, Husband

  "Alice Herz-Sommer: 'Everything we experience is a gift we should pass on'" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2014.

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• Music was our way of remembering our inner selves, our values.

  Alice Herz-Sommer

  Self, Way, Remember

  " My Take: 7 life lessons from a Holocaust survivor" by Caroline Stoessinger, religion.blogs.cnn.com. April 19, 2012.

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• 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

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• 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

  Reading, Book, Things In Life

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• Music saved my life and music saves me still...

  Alice Herz-Sommer

  Save Me, Stills, Saved

  "The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life". Documentary, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2013.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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, Remember You

  "Life is beautiful" by Alan Rusbridger, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2006.

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• Music was our food... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music!

  Alice Herz-Sommer

  Music, Play, Terrible

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• I was born optimistic...I was laughing from the beginning of my life.

  Alice Herz-Sommer

  Optimistic, Laughing, Optimism

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• Every day in life is beautiful...every day!

  Alice Herz-Sommer

  Beautiful, Life Is Beautiful, Life Is

  "The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2013.

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• I am Jewish, but Beethoven is my religion.

  Alice Herz-Sommer

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• I know about the bad, but I look at the good thing.

  Alice Herz-Sommer

  Looks, Good Things, Knows

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• Everything is a present. Everything. This I learned to be thankful for everything.

  Alice Herz-Sommer

  Thank You, Being Thankful

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• Complaining doesn't change people... All that complain, this is terrible... It's not so terrible.

  Alice Herz-Sommer

  People, Complaining, Terrible

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• Only when we are so old, only, are we aware of the beauty of life.

  Alice Herz-Sommer

  Beauty Of Life

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• I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing

  Alice Herz-Sommer

  Laughter, Believe, Wonderful

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• I think backwards. "This was beautiful." Instead of forward.

  Alice Herz-Sommer

  Thank You, Beautiful, Thinking

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