If you were aware of how precious today is you could hardly live through it.

“Our lives teach us who we are.”
--Salman Rushdie

“We can never be born enough”
--E. E. Cummings

"Life is too brief a journey to be scared of taking risks, especially the ones that have the chance of making you happy."
--Donna Schoenrock

"And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so?"
"I did."
"And what did you want?"
"To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth."

"Like when you're thinking about the rest of your life," she said, and she put her hand over her eyes, "you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road."

"In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today. And there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth, it is the point from which your tomorrows will proceed until the hour of your death. If you were aware of how precious today is you could hardly live through it, unless you are aware of how precious it is you can hardly be said to be living at all."
--Frederick Buecttner