Short Life Quotes - Page 4

• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

  Alton Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Break

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.289, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• in this short life that only lasts ah hour how much-how little-is within our power.

  Emily Dickinson

  Littles, Lasts, Hours

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.502, Harvard University Press

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• The sight of snow made her think how beautiful and short life is and how, in spite of all their enmities, people have so very much in common; measured against eternity and the greatness of creation, the world in which they lived was narrow. That's why snow drew people together. It was as if snow cast a veil over hatreds, greed, and wrath and made everyone feel close to one another. -- Snow pg 119

  Orhan Pamuk

  Beautiful, Greatness, Thinking

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• The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Walden ch. 1 (1854)

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless

  Justin Rosenstein

  Life Is Short, Opportunity, Youth

  "We Are the Founders of Asana, and This Is the Story Behind the App". Interview with Tessa Miller, lifehacker.com. March 05, 2014.

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• Birds were like dinosaurs' better selves. They had short lives and long summers. We all should be so lucky as to leave behind such heirs.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Summer, Self, Long

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History”, p.181, Macmillan

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• Why not? Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain - and this is a chance for something special.

  Woody Allen

  Pain, Life Is Short, Dull Life

  Vicky Cristina Barcelona, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves.

  Terry Pratchett

  Jobs, Thinking, Half

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain

  Cassandra Clare

  Heart, Ideas, Infernal Devices

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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

  Jack London

  Men, Atoms, London

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

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• You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

  Mae West

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Mae West: 'YOLO,' Before YOLO Was a Thing", bigthink.com. September 25, 2015.

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• A mortal had woven it, a man who, having caught sight of the Seelie queen, had spent the remainder of his short life weaving depictions of her. He had died of starvation, raw, red fingers staining the final tapestry.

  Holly Black

  Queens, Men, Sight

  Holly Black (2002). “Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale”, Simon Pulse

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• I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Life, Meaningful

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• 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

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Life, Bad Day

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Motivation, Inspiration

  "Feats of memory anyone can do". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2012.

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• I always say, 'Man, the Creator is preparing me for something. He's keeping the sun on me for some reason. He's keeping me aligned with that generation.' Because I genuinely love people, I love hip-hop, and I love using it as a tool to communicate and to create a better vibration. Life is short. I guess I'm lined up for a reason.

  Doug E. Fresh

  Funny, Life, Men

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• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

  Nido R Qubein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Nido R. Qubein (1997). “Stairway to Success: The Complete Blueprint for Personal and Professional Achievement”, Wiley

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• You speak of sacrifice, but it is not my sacrifice I offer. It is yours I ask of you," he went on. "I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain. But I love you enough to hope that you will not care that I am being selfish in trying to make the rest of my life--whatever its length--happy, by spending it with you. I want to be married to you, Tessa. I want it more than I have ever wanted anything else in my life.

  Cassandra Clare

  Love, Selfish, Heart

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• If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn’t plan to ask for either one.

  Libba Bray

  Easier, Permission, Plans

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• When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself is, and of what you in life are, and might become. Later.. later there is more uncertainty, more overlapping, more backtracking, more false memories. Back then, you can remember your short life in its entirety. Later, the memory becomes a thing of shreds and patches.

  Julian Barnes

  Strong, Memories, Confused

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