Dalai Lama Quotes

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

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

We're burnin' daylight!

Life is not too short... we just wait too long to begin it.

While I am here, I want to maximize my time on this planet, you know.

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

Eternity does not start after you die; it begins when you really live.

If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret.

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.

We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters.

No one should waste a day.

minutes weren't given you to save but to spend. This is yours - now. Stop and live it.

It is so easy to waste our lives: Our days, our hours, our minutes ... it is so easy to exist instead of live.

Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!

Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?

Lord, let me live until I die.

You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

Every day is judgment day-use it.

You lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.

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.

Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.

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.

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.