Echoes

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

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

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

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

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

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

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

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

The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.

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.

It is indeed foolish to be unhappy now because you may be unhappy at some future time.

The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment.

He who does not value life does not deserve it.

Yes, you can--if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable.

Lost Time is never found again.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.

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

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are.

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?

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

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

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.