“It's time to start living the life you've imagined.”

“However life treats you, as time goes by you always get the feeling you've lost life in the very living of it.”

Miguel ángel Asturias book Men of Maize

“Love while you've got
love to give.
Live while you've got
life to live.”

Piet Hein (1905–1996) Danish puzzle designer, mathematician, author, poet

“If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.”

Jodi Picoult Perfect Match

“Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

“When your time is up, your time is up, and you've just got to pray to God that you've done something worthwhile with your life.”

Cameron Duncan (1986–2003) New Zealand filmmaker

“If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.”

Barbara Kingsolver (1955) American author, poet and essayist

“You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.”

Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer

“No matter what direction we start off in, the signposts of literature always keep pointing the same way, to a world where nothing is outside the imagination. If even time, the enemy of all living things, and to poets, the most hated and feared of all tyrants, can be broken down by the imagination, anything can be.”

Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist

“If you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean.”

Ray Kroc (1902–1984) American businessman