Seneca the Younger Quotes

If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?

We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.

Lord, let me live until I die.

Every day is judgment day-use it.

My biggest sorrow, when looking back on my youth, is how much of it I somehow missed. Now, looking at my life today, I don't want to make the same mistake. I don't want to miss this. As Bonnie Raitt sang like she was singing it for all of us, "Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste."

Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Now I feel life is really short and I have to take care of things.

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.

To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live.

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

Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.

Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!

There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed.

You have to remember one life, one death–this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death, whether we catch it on the inbreath or outbreath, requires only a moment, this moment. And along with it all the mindfulness we can muster, and each stage of our ongoing birth, and the confident joy of our inherent luminosity. (24)

You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

This is your life and the clock is ticking.

I never lie down at night without reflecting that, young as I am, I may not live to see another day.

Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.

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

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.

The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

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.

What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.