Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity! — Paul Gauguin
Life is short, and time is swift;
Roses fade, and shadows shift. — Ebenezer Elliott
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. — Samuel Butler
It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. — Seneca
Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind. — Shania Twain
Life is too short to remain unnoticed — Salvador Dali
Top 10 Shortness Of Life Quotes
You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count. — Nancy Reagan
I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity. — Alexander The Great
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham
With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you — Genghis Khan
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. — Sivananda
But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last. — Prince
Life in this world is short. Let us make use of our lives in the pursuit of happiness and not trouble. — Tunku Abdul Rahman
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. — Buddha
The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind. — Wayne Dyer
Shortness Of Life Image Quotes
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it. — Mark Twain
Life is short. Spend it with people who make you laugh and feel loved.
The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience. — Leo Tolstoy
Life is too short to silence your personality.
Life Is Today Quotes
Realistic expectations for life are that we are going to be better today than we were yesterday, be better tomorrow than we were today. That's a plan for success. So [the key is] simple: just work. — Jim Harbaugh
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. — Mother Teresa
Today, Jesus stands ready to hear your cry and to answer prayer for you. He is interested in every detail of your life. He knows you better than you know yourself. — Kathryn Kuhlman
Life is short. To just "Do things" is insane. Live with a purpose. Live for a reason.
Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived. — Frank Lloyd Wright
I find freedom to be the most important issue facing any human being today, because without freedom, then life is pointless. The more dependent you become on centralized power, the more easily you are lead around. — Russell Means
Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come. — Luke the Evangelist
Life is very short. If people aren't decent, kind, accountable, responsible, or responsive, man up and get rid of them.
What is your ambition in life today? Is it to get rich? Is it to make a name for yourself? Is it even to do some wonderful thing for God? Listen to me, beloved. The highest desire that can possess any human heart is a longing to see God. — J. Vernon McGee
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto. — Dale Carnegie
Life is a sum of all your choices". So, what are you doing today? — Albert Camus
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow. — William Faulkner
There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights. — Colonel Muhammar Qaddafi
Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Life is too short to stress yourself with people who don't even deserve to be an issue in your life.
Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and no people involved. Be free from fear. Be who you are. That is love. — Ajahn Brahm
One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city — Aldo Rossi
To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is too short to be anything but happy.
Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success. — Ernest Shackleton
We are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt. We all share the condition of brokenness even if our brokenness is not equivalent. — Bryan Stevenson
The decision to go into debt alters the course and condition of your life. You no longer own it. You are owned. — Dave Ramsey
Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect. — Alan Cohen
What Is Inspirational Quotes
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. — Soren Kierkegaard
It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. — Swami Vivekananda
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. — Harry S. Truman
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. — Ella Fitzgerald
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. — Nora Roberts
Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life too short to think small
You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks. — Deepak Chopra
you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right. — Rosa Parks
A Mother's love is something that no one can explain, It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain, It is endless and unselfish and enduring come what may For nothing can destroy it or take that love away — Helen Steiner Rice
The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do. This self-denial is the unique way to usher in God's kingdom and to realize the kingdom life. — Witness Lee
Brevity Of Life Quotes
O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory quality of human time and the brevity of human life - the necessity to love. — Richard Preston
Life is too short to spend worrying about people who opposed you.
Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it. — LeCrae
There comes a moment when we all must realize that life is short, and in the end the only thing that really counts is not how others see us, but how God sees us. — Billy Graham
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains. — Bertrand Russell
Life is too short to wait
it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end. — Winifred Holtby
The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life. — Billy Graham
Live life like you mean it! Stop procrastinating! Do all that you can...with all that you have...in the place that you are...right now! Life is too unpredictable to put things off and not take it seriously. — Les Brown
Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity. — Thomas Ken
How Short Life Is Quotes
Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel. — Nina Simone
Life is short is what some niggaz said; not if you measure life - by how one lives and what he did. — Nas
Life is too short to stress yourself with people who dont even deserve to be an issue in your life.
Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other's differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same. — Barbra Streisand
We are reminded how short life really is, and how we are just passing through. So, all the people you haven't told you love lately, tell them, and live your days like you mean it. — Hal Sutton
I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life. — Eknath Easwaran
I travel because life is short, and the world is huge.
We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life. — Edith Schaeffer
Life is too short to worry about anything — Eric Davis
I'm pretty goofy and I make a lot of dumb jokes - life is too short to be serious, so I guess that's how I flirt. To be honest, I think I'm too shy and reserved to be a proper old fashioned flirt. — Cory Monteith
Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential. — B. Alan Wallace
Life Is Short Quotes
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. — Lois Wyse
Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream. — Hugh Hefner
Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile. — Mark Twain
All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same. — Marilyn Monroe
Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule. — Milarepa
Life is too short, the world is too big and God's love is too great to live ordinary. — Christine Caine
Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra. — Paul Bocuse
The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie. — Ann Landers
Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst — John Piper
Life Is So Short Quotes
Life is too short to live the same day twice. So each new day make sure you live your life. — Machine Gun Kelly
Remember: Life is short, break the rules — James Dean
If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it'd be easy, they just promised it would be worth it. — Dr. Seuss
Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts. — Amy Winehouse
The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal. — Salvador Minuchin
We only have one life and one body to care of, and we better do it right. You never know what tomorrow may bring and so we better live this life the best we can and be grateful for everything we have. — Novak Djokovic
The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style — Stella Gibbons
We didn't intend to hurt each other, and we don't have time to do so. Life is too short to blame others. It's now the past. I hope that everybody will do well in the long run. — Jay Park
Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let's dance. — James Howe
Length Of Life Quotes
Width of life is more important than length of life. — Avicenna
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. — Michel de Montaigne
Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. — Alfred Hitchcock
The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth. — Ptolemy
~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~ — Michel de Montaigne
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts--spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back -- length of life. — Rose Kennedy
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. — Diane Ackerman
In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art. — Alberto Manguel
The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth. — Marilyn vos Savant
I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0. — Sophia Loren
The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your time with music that is trite or ignoble. Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Saharas of musical trash. — Sergei Rachmaninoff
If you think life's too short, do something about it. — David Sinclair
Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it. — Edward Furlong
The future is too good to waste on lies and life is way too short to care for the damnation of others as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong. — Bowe Bergdahl
Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it. — Al Lopez
Life is too short to spend in negativity. So I have made a conscious effort to not be where I don't want to be. — Hugh Dillon
Brief Life Quotes
This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures. — Rudyard Kipling
Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best. — Michael Johnson
To make the best use of your life, you must never forget two truths: First, compared with eternity, life is extremely brief. Second, earth is only a temporary residence. You won't be here long, so don't get too attached. — Rick Warren
Only one life, a few brief years,
Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears;
Each with its clays I must fulfill.
living for self or in His will;
Only one life, 'twill soon be past,
Only what s done for Christ will last. — Charles Studd
The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived. — Juvenal
On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise. — Paul Ricoeur
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. — D. H. Lawrence
I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution , where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment... only to vanish forever. — Alan Watts
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer. — William Penn
My life is like a faded leaf,
My harvest dwindled to a husk:
Truly my life is void and brief
And tedious in the barren dusk;
My life is like a frozen thing,
No bud nor greenness can I see:
Yet rise it shall - the sap of Spring;
O Jesus, rise in me. — Christina Rossetti
The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant. — Charlie Chaplin
Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw] the consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all... whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence. — Janis Joplin
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself. — Sivananda
A lily of a day
Is fairer far in May,
Although it fall and die that night,
It was the plant and flower of light.
In small proportions we just beauties see,
And in short measures life may perfect be. — Ben Jonson
The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short. — Homaro Cantu
He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitible? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things.' Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame. But flame is transient, often short lived. Canst thou bear this, my soul - short life? ... Make me thy fuel, Flame of God. — Jim Elliot
You can have calmness of mind at all times by the practice of yoga. You can have restful sleep. You can have increased energy, vigour, vitality, longevity, and a high standard of health. You can turn out efficient work within a short space of time. You can have success in every walk of life. — Sivananda
I've always wanted to get as far as possible from the place where I was born. Far both geographically and spiritually. To leave it behind ... I feel that life is very short and the world is there to see and one should know as much about it as possible. One belongs to the whole world, not just one part of it. — Paul Bowles
Get rid of the shitty sound. Life's too short. — Hans Zimmer
Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. — S. D Gordon
I was a typical French student of the 1990s - I imagined that, after a short excursion, I would work the rest of my life at home. — Emmanuelle Charpentier
Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying. — Studs Terkel
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. — Isaac Asimov
My first experience on public radio still ranks among the most embarrassing episodes of my relatively short life. — Tucker Carlson
I look back and half of Ramadan is over in the blink of an eye. Before I know I'll be saying that about my entire life — Nouman Ali Khan
When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility. — Neil Postman
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Life is an island. People come out of the sea, cross the island, and return to the sea. But this short life is long and beautiful. In getting to know nature man exalts the wonder and beauty of life. — Martiros Saryan
That short-sleeping that we're now suffering is a consequence of our lifestyle. — Matthew Walker
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. — Ellen DeGeneres
Courage is not the absence of fear... — Richard Stengel
I think the first general point to make from epidemiological studies across millions of people is the following - that short sleep predicts a shorter life. — Matthew Walker
Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials. — Dan Savage
This is my one and only life and it's a great and terrible and short and endless thing and none of us come out of it alive. — Hilary Swank
If I know what love is, it is because of you. — Hermann Hesse
What is one man's life compared to the eternity of time and space? No more than a snowflake that glitters in the sun for a moment before melting into the flow of time. — Osamu Tezuka
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