Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.

We are likely to feel better when we go to bed tonight if we have an internal sense that we spent our lives meaningfully today.

Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture as a whole.

I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.

When I have fears that I may cease to beBefore my pen has glean'd my teeming brain.

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

By the time I recognize this moment, this moment will be gone. . . But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered on

One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today. If we really have too much to do, there are some items on the agenda which God did not put there. Let us submit the list to Him and ask Him to indicate which items we must delete. There is always time to do the will of God. If we are too busy to do that, we are too busy.

My patients taught me not how to die, but how to live.

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.