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, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

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.

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.

You have to live each hour as if it's your last and each day as if you were immortal. - Kate Sheffield

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.

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.

You can better embrace life, you can enjoy it more, when you are conscious that it will end. You bite life.

You have to live life for today and for this moment.

I only live one time.

Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.

Each day should be passed as though it were our last.

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.

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

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

Life is fragile. We're not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you've got.

I think every time in your life is valuable, and you need to exist in that moment. Because if you don't - you lose it.

As you get older, you see life is very short, so you have to appreciate more and more and to enjoy it.

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.

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

Live today, for tomorrow we die.

Begin to live each day as if it was your last.

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

Live each day as your last, and tomorrow is forever

If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, each and every day . . . the here, the now.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.