This Moment is Your Life

"Be happy for this moment; this moment is your life."
-Omar Khayyam

"If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life,
you must accept the terms it offers you."
-T.S. Eliot

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon,
but that we wait so long to begin it."

"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"...You can get busy living or you can get busy dying"
-Tim Robbin's Character, Andy, in The Shawshank Redemption
(Margie's note: I forgot the exact quote, but it's close to that.)

"We don't remember days, we remember moments."
-Cesare Pavese

"Life is the sum of all of your choices."

"There was that law of life, so cruel and so just,
that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same."
-Norman Mailer

"Life is not holding a good hand;
Life is playing a poor hand well."
-Danish proverb

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"I can't believe that we would lie in our graves
Wondering if we had spent our living days well;
I can't believe that we would lie in our graves
Dreaming of things that we might have been."

~ Dave Matthews ~