Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets you unforeseen Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.

Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain.

Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.

Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless

You should do what you can to enjoy every moment.

I became very obsessed with death, and the idea that you never know when death will arrive, so one has to do as much as possible all the time to get the most out of life. That would be a motivating force.

When shall we live if not now?

When in the world are we going to begin to live as if we understood that this is life? This is our time, our day...and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee; Make not too sure another breath to borrow.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.

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

How long will you wait for the right time to come? The right time is now and the right place is here.

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.

What are you waiting for? What are you saving for? Now is all there is.

Here's the thing: life is now. It's not ten pounds from now, it's not twenty pounds from now, it's not a million dollars from now. It's right now. And you just have to take a chance.

Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.

You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what’s left to you.

After a lot of struggling and sort of reflection I realized that the time you have to give is now, regardless of how old you are.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Life's too short to just breeze on by.

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.

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

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.