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I was born optimistic...I was laughing from the beginning of my life.
Alice Herz-Sommer
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Alice Herz-Sommer
Age: 110 †
Born: 1903
Born: November 26
Died: 2014
Died: January 1
Music Pedagogue
Musician
Pedagogue
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Praha
Alice Sommer
Alice Herzová-Sommerová
Alice Herz-Sommerová
Alice Herzova-Sommerova
Alice Herz-Sommerova
Alice Herz
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More quotes by Alice Herz-Sommer
Complaining doesn't change people... All that complain, this is terrible... It's not so terrible.
Alice Herz-Sommer
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
I think backwards. This was beautiful. Instead of forward.
Alice Herz-Sommer
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
Everything is a present. Everything. This I learned to be thankful for everything.
Alice Herz-Sommer
I know about the bad, but I look at the good thing.
Alice Herz-Sommer
Music was our food... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music!
Alice Herz-Sommer
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
Music saved my life and music saves me still...
Alice Herz-Sommer
I am Jewish, but Beethoven is my religion.
Alice Herz-Sommer
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
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
Hatred eats the soul of the hater, not the hated.
Alice Herz-Sommer
Music was our way of remembering our inner selves, our values.
Alice Herz-Sommer
Only when we are so old, only, are we aware of the beauty of life.
Alice Herz-Sommer
It depends on me whether life is good or not. Not on life, on me.
Alice Herz-Sommer
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
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
I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing
Alice Herz-Sommer
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
