Seizing the Day Quotes

Death can come at any moment. You could die this afternoon; you could die tomorrow morning; you could die on your way to work; you could die in your sleep. Most of us try to avoid the sense that death can come at any time, but its timing is unknown to us. Can we live each day as if it were our last? Can we relate to one another as if there were no tomorrow?

Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

Let us not worry about the future. Let us only do the right thing Today, At this moment, Here and now. Let the future take care of itself.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

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.

Life is so short, so beautiful. Don't be so serious about work. Enjoy the lives.

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

It's too late for preparation when opportunity strikes.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

When opportunity comes it is too late to prepare.

Live each day as if was your last, not in the future, not in the past. You may not get what you want, but, in the long run, you will get what you expect.

That which once was, will be no more. Yesterday will never come again. To-day is passing, and will not return. You may work while it is day; but when you have lost that day, it will not return for you to work in. While your candle burns, you may make use of its light, but when it is done, it is too late to use it.

Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying.

If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, each and every day . . . the here, the now.

I try to be available for life to happen to me. We're in this life, and if you're not available, the sort of ordinary time goes past and you didn’t live it. But if you're available, life gets huge. You're really living it.

Yesterday is gone forever. Make the most of today and tomorrow if you wish to make up for lost time.

I could feel the day offering itself to me, and I wanted nothing more than to be in the moment-but which moment? Not that one, or that one, or that one.

Nobody's life is perfect and in the grand scheme of things, life is short. I think it's so important to live life to its fullest and choose to smile.

Make each day your masterpiece. Life is now. Life is not later on.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.