Henri Nouwen Quotes

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully.

Really, ambition has gone. I look for things that tickle my fancy. You begin to see the end of life on the horizon. You think, 'It's not going on forever, this.' Let's make the most of what time I have left.

Life's too short to just breeze on by.

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

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.

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

Despite everything, I have few regrets. I have crammed a lot of living into my time.

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.

I don't care how much money you have in the world. It's not about that. It's all about time.

What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

For me, its like go ahead and eat. Live your life. I mean, I've just seen so much death, you know, as of late, being in my 40s, of people getting sick or, you know, whatever, that I just feel like, you know what? You never know with life. Eat. Enjoy yourself. Just try to be healthy and, you know, and watch it.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

I think seizing the opportunity and making the most of your time is very important, and loving life.

Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.

I wanted to play the Apollo because I didn't think I was going to be on the earth long.

It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.

Ah, I hope to live to 87 and drink from the the goblet of life to the dregs.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Whatever I am doing at that moment, I want to make the most of it.

What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.

That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.

I feel like you only have so much time to make stuff. I'm definitely aware of that. I'm also excited about it.

Life's too short for chess.

We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.

The reality is if you were going to die tomorrow, and someone offered you another 10 years, most people would take those 10 years.