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“Now's the day and now's the hour.”

Life Inspirational Hours Positive

Author:Robert Burns

“For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.”

Men Life Persons Matter Moments Given Hours Meaning Of Life What Matters Day To Day Search For Meaning Mans Search For Meaning Stimulus And Response

Book:Man's Search for Meaning

Source: Man's Search for Meaning

“In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.”

Ifs Life Care Lasts Hours Prove Regard Dawn Enjoyment Midst Acceptable Apprehension Boon

Author:Horace

“Life is short, if we are only said to live when we enjoy ourselves; and if we were merely to count up the hours we spent agreeably, a great number of years would hardly make up a life of a few months.”

Ifs Life Years Said Life Is Enjoy Hours Numbers Months Life Is Short

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Dreams dawn and fly: friends smile and die, Like spring flowers. Our vaunted life is one long funeral. Men dig graves, with bitter tears, For their dead hopes; and all, Mazed with doubts, and sick with fears, Count the hours.”

Men Life Long Dream Life Is Dies Hours Doubt Tears Flower Spring Sick Graves Bitter Dawn Funeral Spring Flowers

Book:Matthew Arnold

Source: Matthew Arnold

“So precious life is! Even to the old, the hours are as a miser's coins!”

Life Age Life Is Hours Old Age Coins Misers Precious Life

Book:The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems

Source: The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems

“He who postpones the hour of living as he ought, is like the rustic who waits for the river to pass along (before he crosses); but it glides on and will glide forever. [Lat., Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis; at ille Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.]”

Life Waiting Hours Forever Ought Rivers Crosses Rustic

Author:Horace

“The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.”

Men Life Inspirational Life Is Hours Work Money Plans Earning Get Money Darkest Hour Earning It

Author:Horace Greeley

“The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.”

Life May Important Hours Effort Sacrifice Demand Tasks Difficulty Calm Extremes Endless Realization Budgets Arranging

Book:How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

Source: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

“My life has been given its orders: the seasons seize the soul and the body, and make mock of any dispersed effort. The hour of death is the only trespass”

Life Has Beens Soul Body Order Given Hours Effort Seasons Mock

Book:Selected Writings of Charles Olson

Source: Selected Writings of Charles Olson

“To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians, if you will, to say, that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want, or sitting high. Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.”

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition

“Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.”

Life Life Is Hours Sleep Remedy Sixteen Malady

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“We can't live life perfectly fully, because we sleep eight hours a day! We can live life only partly fully!”

Life Hours Sleep Eight Live Life

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I have hour spurts when I feel fine and I can walk normal and stuff, other hours, I'm wobbling. I feel like there's somebody behind me kicking my legs out from underneath me. The whole tumor symptom thing is crazy. It's unpredictable. It really messes with your life.”

Life Feels I Can Whole Stuff Hours Walks Behinds Crazy Fine Normal Legs Mess Unpredictable Symptoms Kicking Tumors

Author:Lauryn Hill