A. E. Housman Quotes

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.

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

One really never knows what tomorrow holds. That's why you make the most of every moment - good, bad, or indifferent - and own it like only you can.

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

Life is too short to sleep it all away!

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

Yeah, don't you take a break?" "I don't have time for breaks." "That's the whole point of a break. When you've got no time, you need a break.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.

If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.

He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.

After all - life is not a dress rehearsal!

To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment

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

The present moment is never intolerable. It is always what is coming in five minutes or five days that makes people despair. The Law of Life is to live in the present, and this applies to both time and place. Keep your attention to the present moment, and in the place where your body is now. Do a fair day's work, and then stop. Overwork is not productive in the long run.

I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.

I would roll out of bed and immediately start working, and keep working until it was so late at night that I couldn't stay awake anymore. Then I'd go to sleep and wake up the next morning and do the same thing all over again. I did that every day for three years.

God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.

To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.

Go to bed. Whatever you're staying up late for isn't worth it.

Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.

It is a great deed to leave nothing for tomorrow.

No time like the present

Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.

Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present - thoughtfully, justly.