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Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think.
Proverb, Chinese

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

You may delay, but time will not.
Franklin, Benjamin

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
Buchwald, Art

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.
Schabacker, Ruth Ann

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

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?
Douglas, Norman

I have a "carpe diem" mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day. They make me want to slap a dead poet.
Sherman, Joanne

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
de Chamfort, Nicholas

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.
Haskins, Henry S.

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

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.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Tagore, Rabindranath

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.
Shaw, George Bernard

May you live all the days of your life.
Swift, Jonathan

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.
Horace

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Buxton, Charles

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.
Burroughs, John

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

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.
Leboeuf, Michael

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

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Johnson, Samuel

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.
Lee, Hazel

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.
Adams, George Matthew

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.
Saying, Indian

We are always getting ready to live but never living.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Live every day as if it were your last and then some day you'll be right.
Morant, H.H. "Breaker"

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

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

It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star Game and an Old-timers' Game.
Scully, Vin

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Dean, James

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

If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance.
Boydston, Andrea

The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
Rowland, Helen

Present your family and friends with their eulogies now - they won't be able to hear how much you love them and appreciate them from inside the coffin.
Anonymous

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

The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.
Baldwin, Monica

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

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Ackerman, Diane

If you believe in forever, then life is just a one-night stand.
Brothers, Righteous