Edith Schaeffer Quotes

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

It's a very short trip. While alive, live.

Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.

Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.

Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. -- Mat Cauthon

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

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.

It's my life. I only got one, and it's very short. You don't get long.

Life is short, the art long.

I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon.

There are some people who don't want to deal with the fact that we are not forever. Some people decide to live life to the fullest.

It's not until they tell you you're going to die soon that you realise how short life is.

Life is short, but the years are long.

Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: To think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second.

In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

We have to realize that our lives could be gone in a moment. There are no guarantees that we will be here at this time next year. Learn to live each day to the fullest. Don't complain. Don't focus on what's wrong. Be grateful for the opportunity to experience each day.

As you get older, you see how rapidly the years and decades fly by, so I would encourage anyone, no matter the age, to seize their life and be fully present.

Each life is one short word slowly uttered.

There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.

Life is short. Life is uncertain. But we know that we have today. And we have each other. I believe that for each of us, there is a place on the frontlines.

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

There is in life only one moment and in eternity only one. It is so brief that it is represented by the fleeting of a luminous mote through the thin ray of sunlight - and it is visible but a fraction of a second. The moments that preceded it have been lived, are forgotten and are without value; the moments that have not been lived have no existence and will have no value except in the moment that each shall be lived. While you are asleep you are dead; and whether you stay dead an hour or a billion years the time to you is the same.

Today is the only time we can possibly live.