“Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.”
Barbara Kingsolver Animal Dreams
Animal Dreams.
Animal Dreams (1990)
“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
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enjoying every minute of life”
Kate Havnevik (1975) Norwegian singer-songwriter
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Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
On training, as quoted in "Ali: Born Again!" by Pete Axthelm and Peter Bonventre, Newsweek (25 September 1978)
“Enjoy every minute of life. Never second-guess life.”
Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman
How to be like Mike (2005)
“May love be your guide in every moment of your life.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Though widely attributed to Coelho on the internet, and originally added here within the section for The Alchemist, this specific form has not been located in any editions available in online searches. The directive "Let love be your guide" is a very old one, and did not originate with Coelho.
Misattributed
“This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.”
Variant: This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.
Source: Fight Club
“Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.”
Betty Smith book A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943).
“I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.”
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables