Natalie Goldberg Quotes

I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

A great moment of clarity when I realized I'm dying. There's no reason to wait to do the things we want to do.

If not now, then when ? If not you, then who ?

This is life-and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

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

The problem with waiting until tomorrow is that when it finally arrives, it is called today.

Anybody can die, everything is fleeting, and you've just got to make sure that you catch up on what you can catch up on.

I don't always do what I should but I do what I gotta do.

How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!

Time goes on. So whatever you're going to do, do it. Do it now. Don't wait.

Time and tide wait for no man.

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

Now I feel life is really short and I have to take care of things.

What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.

The trouble is that you think you have time.

When in the world are we going to begin to live as if we understood that this is life? This is our time, our day...and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

No man ever served God by doing things tomorrow.

To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy.

The right time is always right now.

People who do not take charge of their lives are lathi-charged by time.

Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere.

We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’.

if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.

Be wise to-day; 't is madness to defer.