Maria Mitchell Quotes

You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.

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 get one life. I'm going to embrace mine.

My greatest life lesson has been that life can change in a second. This is why it's important to always live your best possible life and to do what you can for others.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

After the cancer-free diagnosis, I thought I'd go off and do the things I never did in my teens and twenties. I realised putting things off in life can be dangerous because suddenly you can find you've run out of time.

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.

I like to approach every day like it's the only day I will ever have.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

We're here for such a short period of time. Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

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.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

People always say you should live your life as if it were your last day. I think you should live your life as though it will go on for ever; that every day is so good that you don't want it to end.

I think that we need to live our lives for the present... as if it is our one and only wild and wonderful life.

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.

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.

Life is short, and it is here to be lived.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me.

Personally I'm just trying to take advantage of every moment that I get.

Time move forward, and time move quick. So you just have to enjoy every second, every moment.

Don't spend your time dreaming, live life now.

Life is too short to talk about the small, unimportant things when you catch the bigger picture.

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.

Make use of life while you have it. Whether you have lived enough depends upon yourself, not on the number of your years.