“We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.”
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Maya Angelou 247
American author and poet 1928–2014Related quotes
“How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?”
Source: Give Me Liberty! (1998), Ch. 17 : Success Redefined, p. 199
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
Variant: Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living out fears.
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
Source: " The Writing Life http://www.tikkun.org/mediagallery/download.php?mid=20090505114218282" (link is to PDF download), Tikkun magazine, Volume 3, Number 6, 1988
“Let us consider the way in which we spend our lives.”
Life Without Principle (1863)
Context: I will not talk about people a thousand miles off, but come as near home as I can. As the time is short, I will leave out all the flattery, and retain all the criticism.
Let us consider the way in which we spend our lives.
“We don't live in our fears, we live in our hopes.”
Following the Steelers win over the Rams in 2007, quoted in "Steelers Notebook: Turf wars — Natural or artificial at Heinz Field?" by Gerry Dulac in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (22 December 2007) http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07356/843782-66.stm?cmpid=sports.xml
