Life Is Short

Yesterday I got a shocking reminder that life is very short…

As you grow older, you’ll find the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do. ~Zachary Scott

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

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

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

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

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, Tracts for Spiritual Reading

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

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

We cannot waste time.  We can only waste ourselves.  ~George M. Adams