Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes

You only live once, so live a good life!

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.

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

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

Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

If you're not busy living, you're dying.

Enjoy life - you only get one.

You now have the least amount of time you've ever had, to do everything you've ever wanted to do. Enjoy your life. You only get one

We should write an elegy for every day that has slipped through our lives unnoticed and unappreciated. Better still, we should write a song of thanksgiving for all the days that remain-now that we know how to cherish them.

Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.

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

Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation for the night is to work diligently while the day lasts. The best preparation for death is life.

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.

I am convinced that only when a man is prepared to die is he also prepared to live.

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

Lord, let me live until I die.

But the most dangerous thing in the world in the world is to run the risk of waking up one morning and realizing suddenly that all this time you've been living without really and truly living and by then it's too late. When you wake up to that kind of realization, it's too late for wishes and regrets. It's even too late to dream.

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.

In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.

Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.

It is only when we become aware that our time is limited that we can channel our energy into truly living

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

I'm talking about living life to its fullest.

I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.