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“Begin doing what you want to do now.”

“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.”

“You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.”

“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”

“May you live all the days of your life.”

“Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.”

“Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.”

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.”

“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”

“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.”

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

“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 gotten 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.”

“One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.”

“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”

“I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don't feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste.”

“Life is flying by. You don't have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward.”

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”

“I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.”

“I still find each day too short.”