Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

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

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.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

I wouldn't waste a day, not an hour, not a moment. Take what you want and damn caution. Live, enjoy. Feed ravenously. Or the biggest regret you'll have at the end of your life is wasted time.

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

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

Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right.

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

You only live once, and I just don’t want to waste a minute of my life.

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

Don't let your life pass you by, weep not for the memories.

Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.

You have to live before you die, or you'll die before you live.

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.

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.

Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'

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.

If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

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.

Live life for the moment because everything else is uncertain!

Life is too short for a long story.

... life is too short to do the whole.

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