Anna Quindlen 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?

Our days are numbered. One of the primary goals in our lives should be to prepare for our last day. The legacy we leave is not just in our possessions, but in the quality of our lives. What preparations should we be making now? The greatest waste in all of our earth, which cannot be recycled or reclaimed, is our waste of the time that God has given us each day.

Life is short ... so why waste it doing something dumb?

Staying alive is nice, but you can’t do that forever. It’s how you live the life you have while you have it.

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

It is only when we become aware that our time is limited that we can channel our energy into truly living

I really have this sense that time is passing, and it's important to do what you have wanted to do.

Life is shockingly short; I don't want to waste that many days.

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

It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a me too attitude while impressing evokes a so what attitude.

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

We bring a deeper commitment to our happiness when we fully understand, that our time left is limited and we really need to make it count.

Life is too short to waste time on things that have no lasting significance.

Don't waste your death on a half assed life

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

Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.

Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated. Therefore live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day, are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it are desperate.

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

Always knowing you're going to die And until then knowing you've got to live.

A warrior must learn to make every act count, since he is going to be here in this world for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully - for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up.

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

Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living.

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.