How Short Life Is Quotes - Page 2

• The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

  Ben Stein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Ben Stein (2010). “How Successful People Win: Using Bunkhouse Logic to Get What You Want in Life”, p.18, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

  Annie Dillard

  Life, Wisdom, Travel

  "The Writing Life". Tikkun magazine, Volume 3, Number 6, 1988.

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• Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

  Hugh Hefner

  Life, Dream, Too Short

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• Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

  Ernest Holmes

  Love, Life, Change

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.225, Penguin

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• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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  Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

  James Dean

  Life, Change, Positive

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are always getting ready to live but never living.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Carpe Diem, Law Of Attraction

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, p.1, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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  Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein's letter to his son Eduard (February 5, 1930), as quoted in Walter Isaacson "Einstein: His Life and Universe" (p. 367), 2007.

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• ‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

  Voltaire

  Positive, Funny Inspirational, Short Life

  Elizabeth Cooney Leister, Voltaire (1985). “Voltaire's Candide”, Barrons Educational Series Incorporated

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• Life is too short to worry about anything

  Eric Davis

  Short Life, Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Life, Men

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• What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  John Burroughs (1913). “The Writings of John Burroughs. [”

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• Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

  Phillips Brooks

  Patience, Short Life, Life Is Too Short

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• Time is long but life is short.

  Stevie Wonder

  Funny, Life, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Sweet

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2023, Delphi Classics

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• Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Short Life, Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short

  "Coningsby, or The New Generation". Book by Benjamin Disraeli (Book VII, Chapter 2), 1844.

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• Life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest.

  John Walters

  Funny, Life, Enjoy

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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• Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

  Larry McMurtry

  Life, Waiting, Motorcycle

  Larry McMurtry (1989). “Some Can Whistle: A Novel”, Simon & Schuster

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• We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Short Life, Years, Today

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Short Life, Men, Order

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