Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

To believe in something, and not live it, is dishonest.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.