Seizing the Day
"There'll be two dates on your tombstone
And all your friends will read 'em
But all that's gonna matter
Is that little dash between 'em..." - Kevin Welch
"Can humans do what prophets say? And if I die before I learn to speak, can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?" - Primitive Radio Gods
"I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance, to live so that which comes to me as a seed goes on aa fruit." – Dawna Markova
"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled or dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in a magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." – Jack London
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure…than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." – Theodore Roosevelt
"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." – T.S. Eliot
Back to Quotes
Home