“Do every act of your life as if it were your last.”– Marcus Aurelius Related Quotes “I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.”– Eleanor Roosevelt “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.”– Steve Jobs “All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”– Ernest Hemingway