Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?

One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don't do in life.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

I have a low tolerance for people who complain about things but never do anything to change them. This led me to conclude that the single largest pool of untapped natural resources in this world is human good intentions that are never translated into actions.

I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.

I did not want to later look back in my life and say, 'Why would you not make times change?'

You never want to look back on life and say, 'I did nothing.' Because then you'll live the rest of your life upset at yourself and at everyone else around you.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

He that will not whan he may,Whan he would, he shall haue nay.

If not now, then when ? If not you, then who ?

I don't want things that I regret in life, and things that I have not done - and I don't want to at 80 years wake up, and tell myself: 'Oh I was on top of my shape and skills and I didn't do it.'

I never want to look back on life and say I wish I did something, and I don't want anybody else to do that.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

But the most dangerous thing in the world in the world is to run the risk of waking up one morning and realizing suddenly that all this time you've been living without really and truly living and by then it's too late. When you wake up to that kind of realization, it's too late for wishes and regrets. It's even too late to dream.

To wish for change will change nothing; To make the decision to take action right now will change everything.

We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’.

There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.

if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.

it is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.

Cause' I don't wanna' spend my life jaded, waiting to wake up one day and find that I've let all these years go by wasted. Oh I don't wanna' keep on wishing, missing, but still every morning the color of the night, I ain't spending no more time wasted.

You are so to put forth the power that God has given you; you are so to give, and sacrifice to give, as to earn the eulogium pronounced on the woman, "She hath done what she could." Do it now. It is not a safe thing to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of a cold world. If you intend to do a mean thing, wait till tomorrow; if you are to do a noble thing, do it now,--now!

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.