Garth Stein Quotes

I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

Don’t you want to be alive before you die?

Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.

In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed...In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the first place: the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby.

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.

I pray that we will not wait until we are ready to die before we truly learn to live.

Don't die until you're dead.

I prepare for death by living.

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.

I'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life is.

You can't live the rest of your life carrying a pain because your parents couldn't get along. I choose to spend my life crafting a joy.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

I just get up and live my life for today - try and deal with it as it comes.

Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

I like people that enjoy life, 'cause I do the same.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Most people tell you there are certain moments you should celebrate in life: for example, the weekend coming, so you should party on a Friday. Or your birthday or New Year's Eve. But what if you're excited about being alive every day? Can't you be in that celebratory state every moment you're not dead?

Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.

It is fun to be alive. It's a hell of a lot better than being dead.