Carpe diem. Seize the day.
John Keats

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
Mother Teresa

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Wayne Dyer

There are many To-morrows, my Love, my Love, -
There is only one To-day.
Joaquin Miller

I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
Tagore

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are the change we have been waiting for.
Barack Obama

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana

There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.
Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister

Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.
Charles Richards

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Margaret Fuller

Though love be a day and life be nothing, it shall not stop kissing.
e.e. cummings

Today’s egg is better than tomorrow’s hen.
Turkish Proverb

Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
John Henry Cardinal Newman

As you grow older, you’ll find the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do.
Zachary Scott

A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time.
Francis Bacon

Enjoy yourself. It’s later than you think.
Chinese Proverb

You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin

So we must love while these moments are still called today, take part in the pain of this passion play, stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust, until time makes history of us.
Indigo Girls

I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn’t know, I held opportunity.
Hazel Lee

Live every day as if it were your last and then some day you’ll be right.
H.H. “Breaker” Morant

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
Braveheart

Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no.
Richard Branson

To change one’s life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.
William James

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.
Indian Saying

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
Bernard Berenson

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
Stephen Vincent Ben�t

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
Voltaire

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

I wanted to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.
Carlos Castaneda

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
Erma Bombeck

The future depends on what you do today.
Mahatma Gandhi

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
Jean Cocteau

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
Robert Frost

I have died so little today, friend, forgive me.
Thomas Lux

When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you’ve got plenty to watch.
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And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln

I don’t believe what I read in the papers They’re just out to capture my dime I ain’t worrying And I ain’t scurrying; I’m having a good time.
Paul Simon quotes

He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again.
Sydney Smith

It’s being here now that’s important. There’s no past and there’s no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can’t relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don’t know if there is one.
George Harrison

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.
Annie Dillard

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus

Why always “not yet”? Do flowers in spring say “not yet”?
Norman Douglas

The future starts today, not tomorrow.
Pope John Paul II Karol Wojty?a

No day but today.
Jonathan Larson

Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead.
Scottish Proverb

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?
David Brin

You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.
Ruth E. Renkl

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.
George MacDonald

Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank.
Ben Irwin

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.
Tillie Olsen

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
Dion Boucicault

Is there life before death?

When it comes time to die, make sure all you got to do is die.
Attributed to Jim Elliot