The trick is to enjoy life. Don’t wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.

Rich or poor it’s nice to have money

Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m...

Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I’ve no regrets.

It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There’s almost no such thing as ready....

Take too much time, and time will take you.

Forget seizing the moment. Seize the opportunity.

I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to...

Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if your heart isn’t crazy, since “the rest of your life” won’t last forever.

Remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.

We are the change we have been waiting for.

I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

From all that I saw,and everywhere I wandered,I learned that time cannot be spent,It only can be squandered.

It was a very ordinary day, the day I realised that my becoming is my life and my home and that I don’t have to do anything but trust the process, trust my story and...

Just breathe,” my mom would say, “Ten tiny breaths… Seize them. Feel them. Love them.

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.”[The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)]

Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, andwhatever days fortune will give, count themas profit.

It’s finished. Everything went past, without me.

Death twitches my ear;’Live,’ he says… ‘I’m coming.

You should *have* an experience; it shouldn’t just *be* an experience.

What I’m not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through, or...

Not to waste the springI threw down everything,And ran into the open worldTo sing what I could sing…To dance what I could dance!And join with everyone!I wandered with a reckless heartbeneath the newborn sun.First stepping...

See, my aim is not to survivebut to be thrown to the wolfs with adrenaline still pumping in my veins and hear the gods laughing saying ”that was one hell of a youth” and everything...

The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire...

Allow yourself to enjoy each happy moment in your life.

Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

He rolled the other way and watched the digital display of his alarm ticking seconds off he’d never get back. This is the life we’re given. One life. One opportunity to be happy, to make...

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

The hour of spring was dark at last,sensuous memories of sunlight past,I stood alone in garden bowersand asked the value of my hours.Time was spent or time was tossed,Life was loved and life was lost.I...

You look ridiculous if you danceYou look ridiculous if you don’t danceSo you might as welldance.

West Wind #2You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without any doubt, I talk directly to your soul. Listen...

Each day gives the opportunity for you to be treated right, to feel worthy, and to be successful. It’s a choice you have to make, a faith you have to embrace, and a standard you...

I’m fairly certain that YOLO is just Carpe Diem for stupid people.

Gratitude means to recognize the good in your life, be thankful for whatever you have, some people may not even have one of those things you consider precious to you (love, family, friends etc). Each...

But bid life seize the present? It lives less in the present Than in the future always, And less in both together Than in the past. The present Is too much for the senses, Too...

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:34

They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream.

Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.

Nobody is ready for death. If you ask Joe Blow on the street, he aint gonna tell you he thinks he’ll live forever. But when the end is near you’ll realize you’ve been believing that...

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

This moment is yours and yours alone! Take charge, seize this moment and allow it to propel you to the high levels of an empowered life. Allow upon this fertile moment to be planted the...

I say if it’s going to be done, let’s do it. Let’s not put it in the hands of fate. Let’s not put it in the hands of someone who doesn’t know me. I know...

Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today.

The unfailing rhythm of the seasons, the ever-turning wheel of life, the four facets of the earth which are lit in turn by the sun, the passing of life–all these filled me once more with...

BarterLife has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings, And children’s faces looking up Holding wonder like a cup. Life has loveliness...

The definition of a professional is one who does a job well even when they don’t like it.

There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.