My Next Breath Quotes

“Information is what squelches fear. We are only afraid of the unknown. Ignorance, or lack of experience, is simply a lack of data. Not all information takes away fear, but any amount of it can dampen the insecurities and the killing unknowns of fear.”
― Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath

“Time is undeniable; none of us can slow it, stanch it, hold it back. Given that fundamental truth, what the hell are we waiting for?”
― Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath

“For a start, I already knew that obstacles, problems, and failures were my allies, not my enemies. Setbacks, far from stanching my ability to move forward, are actually the foundation upon which my successes are built. This is not simply a case of "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger." I welcome obstacles. They give me the first Woburn away everything that could potentially get in my way.”
― Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath

“I am better than I have ever been, happier and more fulfilled and more deeply connected to those around me than I have ever known. I understand the privilege and the honor that brings, so I'm going to spend the rest of my years giving back the best I can. I remain keenly aware that I'll never have a bad day for the rest of my life. And to learn all that, all I had to do was die.”
― Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath

“To this day I think finding out what you don’t want to do is just as important—maybe more important—than finding what you’re good at.”
― Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath: A Memoir

“We all spend so much of our lives trying not to feel something, trying not to feel anything, just to get through; that couldn’t happen here. We had to feel together, and recover together.”
― Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath: A Memoir

“I'll never have a bad day for the rest of my life. To learn that all I had to do was die.”
― Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath

“Eternal love cannot exist without suffering.”
― Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath

“In everything, we can always control our perspective. We’re all the authors of our own narrative. How we feel about things is down to us and how we perceive things—it’s our responsibility to control our perspective. We all have the capacity to captain our own ship. With permission to board the vessel, we now set our long course to press on with the simple task of capturing the next breath.”
― Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath: A Memoir

“We are all sucked into it, through those little computers we carry around with us in our pockets, machines whose algorithms force us to bear silent witness to catastrophes all around the globe constantly, even when there’s nothing we can do about them except be drawn down into a caldera of depression and inertia.”
― Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath: A Memoir

“We shouldn’t wait for the edge of the cliff before enjoying the mountainside that brought us there.”
― Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath: A Memoir

“In everything, we can always control our perspective. We’re all the authors of our own narrative. How we feel about things is down to us and how we perceive things—it’s our responsibility to control our perspective.”
― Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath: A Memoir

“Love slowly, quietly, and patiently waits for hate to simply burn out. It requires so much more energy to hate than to love, and love has all the time in the world.”
― Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath: A Memoir

“When you really know what you’re focused on, you can manifest what you truly want in your life. The trick is to get out of our own damn way.”
― Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath: A Memoir

“Another fear was being told no (fear of rejection)—”
― Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath: A Memoir

“How do you really know until you’re really tested?”
― Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath: A Memoir

“Though fear and hatred are the flashiest and sometimes the most powerful human emotions, they are merely the hare facing off against the tortoise of love. Love slowly, quietly, and patiently waits for hate to simply burn out. It requires so much more energy to hate than to love, and love has all the time in the world.”
― Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath: A Memoir

“From an early age I’ve always known that my family will always be there for me no matter what happens in my life, that they will always literally and metaphorically take me to a less-used lane and show me that I matter, never mind what wrong choices I might make—whatever it is, they’re still there to always love me.”
― Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath: A Memoir

“Actually, I want to shoot that kind of person, the one who’s perky and positive every single morning and all day long. I know those super-positive people, and I’m not much of a fan of someone who is constantly looking on the bright side.”
― Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath: A Memoir

“My new life is way more deeply rooted in the art of emotion—I now feel everything physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and though sharing that is vulnerable and intimate, it’s also honest, so even though there’s heaviness to it, it’s actually really light and freeing.”
― Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath: A Memoir

“He sees that burgeoning pool of blood coming out of the back of my head.”
― Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath: A Memoir

“Honestly at that point it could have gone either way. This giant of a man had just told me I wasn’t in a movie I knew I was in because I’d been in it, and, in arguing the point, had also managed to almost poke my eye out with my own reading glasses. Also, did I mention he kept mentioning he was Canadian?”
― Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath: A Memoir

“Please cancel my subscription to your issues”; “If I give you a straw, would you suck the fun out of someone else’s day?”; “I’m sorry I called you an asshole. I thought you knew,” etc.”
― Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath: A Memoir

“There is so much nonsense going on in the world right now, tremendous amounts of damaging white noise. We are all sucked into it, through those little computers we carry around with us in our pockets, machines whose algorithms force us to bear silent witness to catastrophes all around the globe constantly, even when there’s nothing we can do about them except be drawn down into a caldera of depression and inertia.”
― Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath: A Memoir

“The continuance of the spirit is what is true, and things that are truthful are love. The only thing that matters in life is love. Love, here on earth, is our only currency; it is our energy and our existence, and we take that energy with us into perpetuity. We use words to communicate and data and satellites to connect to people … but we don’t, not really. We’re always connected by love if we allow it to be so, because our energies are free of the sublunary world.”
― Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath: A Memoir

“My daughter has too much accountability, too much responsibility to life and everything around her to be like that,”
― Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath: A Memoir

“My body was now a separate entity, a roommate if you will. And like a freeloading roommate, wanted or not, however hard I tried my body was nevertheless around, wasn't going anywhere, and was eating all my food and certainly not paying any rent.”
― Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath

“Stop telling me that you're broken, that you're hurt, and that I should be more careful!" I'd shout, like my leg was a scorned lover. "You, sir, have been replaced with something better and stronger than bone, okay? So, pipe down, you son of a bitch!”
― Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath

“Sometimes hope came right against suffering, though. I did need medication to get me through, I knew that. My brain says, "Hope, hope, hope," but sometimes my body says, "You're a hot mess, motherfucker." To which my brain replies, "Fuck you. I'm a superhero. Let's party." Body replies, "No, motherfucker, we can't even walk yet.”
― Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath

“Hospitals are wonderful places for saving lives, but they're less effective as places where people heal, physically and mentally. Not the least of the issues is the fat that they never really leave you alone. Beyond the beeping of the machines and the general hum of a hospital all around you, there was a constant parade of doctors, nurses, lab technicians, X-ray technicians, and orderlies, and I was forever being wheeled down two floors to have yet another set of X-rays taken. Beyond worrying I'd glow in the dark for the rest of my life, I wished there could be greater coordination among all the various medical departments so that they could perhaps do one set of X-rays and CAT savages instead of the multiples ones they kept ordering. I realize it didn't help that the snowcat had managed to break or mangle so many disparate parts of my body, but still.”
― Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath