You may delay, but time will not. – Benjamin Franklin
We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves. – George M. Adams
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. – Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. – Bernard Berenson
I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung. – Tagore
We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well. – George MacDonald
Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank. – Ben Irwin
If you wait, all that happens is that you get older. – Larry McMurtry, Some Can Whistle
Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely. – Thomas P. Murphy
There is a bunch of things we mean to do, and life is the time we spend meaning to do them. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Begin doing what you want to do now. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand, and melting like a snowflake. – Marie Ray
Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential. – B. Alan Wallace
One can make a day of any size… – John Muir, August 1875 [I love how this sounds like it could so beautifully appl
If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart. – Edmund Wilson
The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The word “now” is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks. – Arthur Miller, After the Fall, 1964
What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself. – George Bernard Shaw
The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. – Tillie Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information. – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
