Robert Fulghum Quotes

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

I'm realizing for the first time, your life goes on while you're trying to pursue this career. I saw my career as everything. But you have this life, too. Living your life fully, you come to know yourself better. You'll find the place for it.

I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, 'where do I want to be today, where do I want to be tomorrow, and where do I want to be in a hundred years?' We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It's a real shame if we don't spend our lives trying to do that.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Our life is our life. If we waste it, we're fools.

If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?

Now I feel life is really short and I have to take care of things.

Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed.

If you're not busy living, you're dying.

Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time.

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity Nor had I time to love: but since Some industry must be, The little toil of love, I thought, Was large enough for me.

You now have the least amount of time you've ever had, to do everything you've ever wanted to do. Enjoy your life. You only get one

Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.

If I had my life to live over... I wouldn't have time.

My whole life, I've wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.

Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.

If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

We all have a finite amount of energy and time to give, and must figure out the best way to have an impact on the things that matter to us most - and it's okay that each one of us will do it differently.

I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.

I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

There is nothing I've been through in my life that I regret, or that I would go back and change. I feel like everything that happened - personally and professionally - I went through for a reason, and I learned from those things.

Redeem thy misspent time that's past, And live this day as if thy last.

Everything I did and continue to do happens for a reason, and honestly, I don't regret much in my life.