“Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.”

“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them.”

Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) New Zealand author

“We live in the false as long as we have not suffered. But when we begin to suffer, we enter the truth only to regret the false.”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

“It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926–2004) American psychiatrist

“We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.”

Ronald David Laing book The Politics of Experience

“We all have two lives. The second begins when you realize you only have one.”

Tom Hiddleston (1981) English actor, producer and musical performer

“Men who are afraid live longer.”

Edmund Cooper book A Far Sunset

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake…”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

“The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.”

André Gide (1869–1951) French novelist and essayist