Richard L. Evans Quotes

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

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

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

A great moment of clarity when I realized I'm dying. There's no reason to wait to do the things we want to do.

One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet.

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

Today is the only time we can possibly live.

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Life's too short.

In the medium or long term we'll all be dead. Let's deal with the problems at hand.

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

Live mindful of how brief your life is.

Each day should be passed as though it were our last.

It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think.

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

life is the moment we're living right now.

As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.

It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.

To-day is thine to spend, but not to-morrow; Counting on morrows breedeth bankrupt sorrow: O squander not this breath that Heaven hath lent thee; Make not too sure another breath to borrow.

If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now.

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.

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.