Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on Earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up - that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party.

You only live once and you don't know it because of the everyday activities, but if you walk around knowing you only have one time on this planet, you'll make a whole lot more of it.

Enjoy the day as if it were your last.

As to each of us, the knowledge that we are here but briefly and a nonnegotiable limit is set to our expected time may even be necessary as the incentive to number our days and make them count.

Enjoy the best things in your life cuz you ain’t gonna get to live it twice.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.

You never know how much time you got.

Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it! Well, I'm telling you...you do have a terminal illness: It's called birth. You don't have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason--or you will never be at all.

Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done.

I just live one day at a time.

Cancer taught me to stop saving things for a special occasion. Every day is special. You don't have to get cancer to start living life to the fullest. My post-cancer philosophy? No wasted time. No ugly clothes. No boring movies.

I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.

You never know how much time you have left.

Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.

I live my life one day at a time.

The art is long, life is short.

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

I don't have a bucket list because it is my dedication to live every day of my life there. I don't have a bucket list because I'm doing it that day. I don't want to go to bed and say, 'Oh, I wish I had done this.'

You only live once. Life is a show.