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

Most people split their existence into waiting for the weekend and dreading Monday. They treat learning like a chore they finished in school and daily life like a dress rehearsal for some vague future. What if you stopped waiting? Grab the immediate beauty of today while building a mind that can understand tomorrow. Start reading that difficult book tonight, and take that walk you keep postponing.

When to use it

  • I only have five years until retirement, but I am still signing up for that new coding course because I want to keep my mind sharp.
  • The laundry is piled high, but the weather is perfect, so we are packing a picnic for the lake right now because today is what we have.
  • I do not need to learn ancient history for my business degree, but I am taking the class anyway just to understand how those thinkers saw the world.
  • I was saving this special bottle of wine for some distant major milestone, but we are cooking a great dinner tonight, so let's open it.