
“I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.”
Source: Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
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“I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.”
Source: Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
“Enjoy every minute of life. Never second-guess life.”
How to be like Mike (2005)
Remarks on his attitude after discovering he had terminal mesothelioma, on The Late Show with David Letterman (30 October 2002)
“Be in love with your life. Every minute of it.”
"Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials" in a letter to Arabelle Porter (28 May 1955); published in Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940-1956 (1995). Sometimes misquoted as "Be in love with your life every minute of it."
Variant: Be in love with your life every detail of it
From his interview in The Guardian newspaper, 20th September 2008
Letter breaking up with a boyfriend in 1947, as quoted in Jacqueline Kennedy's Old Love Letters Will School You in the Art of Breaking Up" by Laura Beck, in Cosmopolitan (2 September 2015)]
Source: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks