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I have not wasted life, but life hath wasted me.
Oct 2, 2025
Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.
Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.
No lifetime is a loss if you've leaned something, because that learning stays with you. There is no such thing as a wasted life, if you have learned.
It is better to lose your life than to waste it.
Tell the truth. All the time. About everything. What's the alternative to radical honesty? Waste. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted possibilities-a wasted life.
A life which did not touch the life of others is a wasted life!
Don't LIVE the same year 75 times and call it a Life
Wasted time means wasted lives.
There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or change.
A life that is never willing to change is a great tragedy - a wasted life. Change is a necessary part of a growing life, and we need change in order to remain fresh and to keep progressing.
If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.
The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.
Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.
How strange! You lose a little from you and you cry. And your whole life is wasting and you're laughing
We need to create a new revolution, and to do that, don’t waste your life: stop pleasing people, and become who you always wanted to be.
If I could get the ear of every young man but for one word, it would be this: make the most and best of yourself. There is no tragedy like a wasted life--a life failing of its true end, and turned to a false end.
God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work, not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.
I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.
There is a warning. The path of God-exalting joy will cost you your life. Jesus said, “Whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it.” In other words, it is better to lose your life than to waste it. If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full. This is not a book about how to avoid a wounded life, but how to avoid a wasted life. Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.
The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy.
We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after all, there are no such things as 'wasted' lives, saving and except when am individual wilfully squanders and wastes his own life.
Let us see as steadily and completely as possible the realities of our age: the wasted lives, the scattered and misused resources (human and material), the steel magic of the misdirected machinery, the mad clockwork tragedy of it all.
Most of the things we spend our lives chasing will turn to dust in the end.
This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage was like, because cook and clean and wash was just what Buddy Willard's mother did from morning till night, and she was the wife of a university professor and had been a private school teacher herself.
Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it.
The tragedy of government welfare programs is not just wasted taxpayer money but wasted lives. The effects of welfare in encouraging the break-up of low-income families have been extensively documented. The primary way that those with low incomes can advance in the market economy is to get married, stay married, and work—but welfare programs have created incentives to do the opposite.
How do you get up in the morning? Another wasted life it's so boring The system never failed you You failed yourself and all of your friends Now your heart is failing too A total system failure they pronounce you
Tonight, I should watch the sun set, and think of the impending darkness as a metaphor for my wasted life: once it was bright, and full of potential, and now it is dark and hopeless and bleak. I should not make the mistake of thinking that the moon and the stars represent slim glimmers of hope, or evidence that there is light on the other side. Even if there is light somewhere I will never walk in it again.
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.
Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.
... I feel tired to death, paralyzed by this mysteriously wasted life's stubborn concentration on hopelessness and dissolution. It occurs to me that if I lie still like this for long enough, then I'll be dead when I finally wake again, and nothing can ever again torment me, beset me, or present me with evidence of my baseness and decay. That thought is the only one that can comfort me.
You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
I dropped my voice and stared into her eyes. I could tell she was trying hard not to look away. I was so furious I could have cheerfully ripped her head off. "But you're going to find out, Mom,' I said very softly."And it's gonna give you nightmares for the rest of your wasted life." Oh, my God, I was so badass. It was all I could do to not give a MWA HA HA!
You may delay, but time will not.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.
When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives
Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.