Life Being Short Quotes - Page 2

• Life is too short to do the things you don't love doing.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Funny, Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short

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

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• The function of man is to live, not to exist.

  Jack London

  Short Life, Men, Atoms

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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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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• As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

  Zachary Scott

  Inspiring, Travel, Regret

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• Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

  Dion Boucicault

  Life, Inspiring, Death

  'London Assurance' (1841) act 2, sc. 1.

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• May you live all the days of your life.

  Jonathan Swift

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Jonathan Swift (1768). “The works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...: With the author's life and character; notes, historical, critical, and explanatory; tables of contents, and indexes. More complete than any preceding edition ... Accurately corrected by the best editions”, p.153

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• Life is too short for long-term grudges.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Life Is Too Short, Long

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

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• One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping as we all should. I dunno. You don't live that long. It doesn't matter.

  Louis C. K.

  Life, Sleep, Insomnia

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• We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.

  Mark Strand

  Life, Thinking, Pay

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• I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Life, Death, Letting Go

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.618, Simon and Schuster

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• Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Life, Light, Long

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• Life is flying by. You don't have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Moving On, Forgiveness

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• Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.

  Paul Bowles

  Life, Death, Time

  "The Sheltering Sky". Book by Paul Bowles, 1949.

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• While we are postponing, life speeds by.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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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 too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.

  Eric Davis

  Short Life, Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short

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

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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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  A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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• I still find each day too short.

  John Burroughs

  Thinking Of You, Retirement, Short Life

  John Burroughs (1924). “Summit of the years”

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• For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

  James Patterson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  James Patterson (2004). “Sam's letters to Jennifer”

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• 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

  Life, Appreciation, Time

  "Diane Sawyer Talks With Nancy Reagan". Interview with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com. June 28.

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• Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

  John Hughes

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about those who don’t. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it.

  Harvey Mackay

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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