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| Life is short, God’s way of encouraging a bit of focus. ~ Robert Brault |
| Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. ~ Charles Richards |
| Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting. ~ Dr. Seuss |
| Enjoy yourself. It’s later than you think. ~ Chinese Proverb |
| Live every day as if it were your last and then some day you’ll be right. ~ H.H. "Breaker" Morant |
| Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. ~ Wayne Dyer |
| I have died so little today, friend, forgive me. ~ Thomas Lux |
| Every man dies. Not every man really lives. ~ Braveheart |
| Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. ~ Elbert Hubbard |
| As you grow older, you’ll find the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do. ~ Zachary Scott |
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| Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you. ~ Annie Dillard |
| Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today. ~ James Dean |
| Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"? ~ Norman Douglas |
| As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. ~ Henry David Thoreau, "Economy," |
| 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 Benét |
| And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. ~ Abraham Lincoln |
| There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. ~ George Santayana, "War Shrines," |
| For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin – real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. ~ Fr. Alfred D’Souza |
Time! where didst thou those years inter
Which I have seene decease?
~ William Habington |
| Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead. ~ Scottish Proverb |
| I’m less interested in why we’re here. I’m wholly devoted to while we’re here. ~ Erika Harris |
| To always be intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it – this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed. ~ Walter Scott |
| 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 |
| Never forget that you must die; that death will come sooner than you expect… God has written the letters of death upon your hands. In the inside of your hands you will see the letters M.M. It means "Memento Mori" – remember you must die. ~ J. Furniss, |
| 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 |
| To change one’s life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions. ~ William James |
| Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses? ~ David Brin |
| A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time. ~ Francis Bacon, |
| You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. ~ Charles Buxton |
| Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. ~ Margaret Fuller |