Sherman Alexie Quotes

I measure my life out in books." "You should be measuring your life by living. Correction: you shouldn't be measuring your life. What's the point?

But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It’s a mistake of emphasis.

My biggest sorrow, when looking back on my youth, is how much of it I somehow missed. Now, looking at my life today, I don't want to make the same mistake. I don't want to miss this. As Bonnie Raitt sang like she was singing it for all of us, "Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste."

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

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

I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about and build a song around.

But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.

You are not waiting for your life to start. It's going on right now.

The only real moment is now.

I am learning to live, and to see beauty in everything.

Don’t you want to be alive before you die?

Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny.

Lifes too short to live the same day twice.

We have to realize that our lives could be gone in a moment. There are no guarantees that we will be here at this time next year. Learn to live each day to the fullest. Don't complain. Don't focus on what's wrong. Be grateful for the opportunity to experience each day.

Stop talking about tomorrow. You owe it to yourself to do whatever you can to live you can to live a better life today.

As you get older, you see how rapidly the years and decades fly by, so I would encourage anyone, no matter the age, to seize their life and be fully present.

I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life.

Every moment is beautiful; delicious even! Every moment I'm learning and living in a way I never have before. Being present in a way I never have before. Existing in moments I never have before.

I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.

Don't put off joy and happiness. Strive to live each day to its fullest, squeezing all the joy you can out of each moment. Instead of measuring your life's value by your progress toward a single goal, remember that the direction you're headed in is more important than temporary results.

Step into this moment, because it is the only one you have right now. It is not wasted or thrown away. The divine opportunity could be stolen unless you tell yourself it is here right now; available to you this moment, to make of it anything you choose. Why not choose this moment, right now, to be available to yourself by declaring, I AM GOOD! . . . . The richness of the present is here. The fullness of now is present. If you are not here now, it means you could be missing the love, joy, peace and brand-new ideas that are here right now.

I do try to live every day as if it were my last, and it has worked for me so far.

Your life is a series of moments in "now." The better you make your "now" the better your life.