Echoes

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.

Even as we speak, envious time is running away from us. Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.

Nothing, Lucilius, is ours, except time. We were entrusted by nature with the ownership of this single thing, so fleeting and slippery that anyone who will can oust us from possession.

Assert your right to your own time, and gather together and save the time which up till lately has been either taken from you or filched away or has simply passed by unused.

People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little. Make use of time while it is present with you. It depends upon your will, and not upon the number of days, to have a sufficient length of life. Is it possible you can imagine never to arrive at the place towards which you are continually going? and yet there is no journey but hath its end. And, if company will make it more pleasant or more easy to you, does not all the world go the self-same way?

Thou oughtest in every deed and thought so to order thyself, as if thou wert to die this day.

There is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and never return.

Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.

Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.

Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you're alive and able—be good.

I am endeavouring to live every day as if it were a complete life.

The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.

Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits.

There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment. Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else.

Do not, my soul, seek immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Life is too short to waste The critic bite or cynic bark, Quarrel, or reprimand; ’Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!

If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

He who does not value life does not deserve it.