“Get busy living, or get busy dying.” — Stephen King
“The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.” — Seneca
You could leave life right now, let that determine what you do and say.” — Marcus Aurelius
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West
“Life, if well lived, is long enough.” — Seneca
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln
“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to live the width of it as well.” — Diane Ackerman
“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.” — Gerard Way
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“Concentrate every minute like a Roman—like a man—on doing what’s in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, tenderly, willingly, with justice. And on freeing yourself from all other distractions.”
“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.” ― Henry David Thoreau
Stop wasting your life. Start living now.
Don’t be a “Living Dead.” Don’t die before you are dead.
- 「大半的人在二十歲或三十歲上就死了。一過這個年齡，他們只變了自己的影子。以後的生命不過是用來模仿自己，把以前真正有人味的時代所說的，所做的，所想的，所喜歡的，一天天的重複，而且重複的方式越來越機械，越來越脫腔走板。」— Christopher Nolan
- “Most people die at 25 and aren’t buried until they’re 75.” — Benjamin Franklin
- “Some people are old at 19 and some are still young at 90.”
Run your mind in a debug mode instead of autopilot mode 24/7
- 不要讓生活、工作、時間被「預設值 」決定
- 很多時候我們的說話、決定、行動都沒有經過足夠的「思辨」、「深思熟慮」和「自覺」，而在不知不覺中採取了某種「習以為常」的僵化模式
- “Watch every thought (, word, and act). Always ask, why am I having this thought (, word, and act)?” — Naval Ravikant
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