Vita Sackville-West Quotes

You only live once, so live a good life!

Most of us are tiptoeing through life so we can reach death safely. We should be praying, "If I should wake before I die. . . ." Life can get away from you.

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

Life is short ... so why waste it doing something dumb?

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

If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret.

Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

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

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

Lord, let me live until I die.

By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.

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)

We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.

Today will never come again.

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

Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.

Miss not the occasion; by the forelock take that subtle power, the never-halting time.

A warrior must learn to make every act count, since he is going to be here in this world for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

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.

This moment and this chance, they are the same, and they are mine if I choose them,and I do. I want them. Now and as long as I can have them they are both precious and fleeting and gone in the blink of an eye, don't waste them. A moment and an opportunity and a life, all in the unseen tick of a clock holding me nowhere. My heart is beating. The walls are pale and quiet. I am surviving.

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.