"Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it." ~ Ernest Holmes
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life." ~ John Lennon
"Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time." ~ Jim Rohn
"You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way." ~ Walter Hagen
"Life is short. You can't afford to put off what God has put in your heart. You don't have time to live with things holding you back." ~ Joel Osteen
"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why." ~ Eddie Cantor
"No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored' " ~ Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
"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
"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"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
"A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
"My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can." ~ Cary Grant
"Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life." ~ Elizabeth Goudge
"Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger." ~ Channing Tatum
"Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have." ~ Gautama Buddha
"When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy." ~ John Lennon
"I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives." ~ Boris Becker
"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
"Focus. Focus. Focus...on your burning priorities. Say no to everything else. Life's short. You only get one shot at great." ~ Robin Sharma
"Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people." ~ Albert Einstein
"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." ~ Jack London
"In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being." ~ Eckhart Tolle
"Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined." ~ Josh Billings
"The only things that interested me were sports, girls, adventures, celebrities - in short, life." ~ Porfirio Rubirosa
"Photography seems to fix, but this is an illusion created by our short lives. A photograph is merely a note held for 200 years." ~ Douglas McCulloh
"Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential." ~ B. Alan Wallace
"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." ~ Gautama Buddha
"Life is short. Life goes fast. And what I really want to do in my life is to bring something new, something beautiful and something filled with light into the world. I try to think of that every day so that I can remember why I am coming to my studio." ~ Ross Bleckner
"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
"Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way." ~ Dogen
"Would we as a nation be better off dealing with the truth rather than believing fantasies that prop up the Status Quo and the Fed's dearly beloved measure of the economy, the stock market? How often does accepting illusion help us navigate real life? Short answer: never." ~ Charles Hugh Smith
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"I loved playing [the Doctor], and taking part in the basic essence and message of the series which is, it's a short life, seize it, and live it as fully as you can. Care for others. Be respectful of all other life forms, regardless of colour or creed. To be part of that was fantastic." ~ Christopher Eccleston
"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
"Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close: — then let every one of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others — some goodly strength or knowledge gained for yourselves." ~ John Ruskin
"Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity." ~ Charles Spurgeon
"We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life." ~ Edith Schaeffer
"It would be more concerned with the Whole than the parts and has to proceed from the premise that death and pain, short life spans, and no bread without sweat must be accepted." ~ Stephanie Mills
"I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity." ~ Alexander the Great
"If our knowledge is, as I believe, only an island in an infinite sea of ignorance, how can we in our short lifetime find satisfaction in exploring our little island? How can we persuade ourselves to be exhilarated by our meager knowledge and yet not be discouraged by the ocean vistas?" ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
"Life is short. Life is uncertain. But we know that we have today. And we have each other. I believe that for each of us, there is a place on the frontlines." ~ Eric Greitens
"It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures." ~ John Phillips
"What lasting impact will I make on the world and those around me? What will I live my life for? How will I be remembered? I want to leave the world a better place than it was when I got here. I want to experience as much as I can in this very short life that we have." ~ Theo Rossi
"Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I shall be read? Seven." "Why seven?" Bunin asked. "Well," Chekhov answered, "seven and a half then." ~ Anton Chekhov
"I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow. I want to be walking along the Nevsky Prospect, or in the open fields, or on the ocean - wherever my imagination ranges." ~ Anton Chekhov
"Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short." ~ Peter Charles Newman
"All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time." ~ Charles Hazlewood
"My greatest accomplishment is succeeding in life, and I owe that to my family and twenty years in the military. I don't regret leaving the farm and ranch for the Army. Although I may have been a disappointment to my father, I achieved more than he could ever dream of in his short life." ~ Tom Johnson
"Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life." ~ Elizabeth Bowen
"I try to grow like a tree, and hope that I can reach my full potential by the end of this short life. Change is good but growth is better." ~ Christofer Drew
"In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I've no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I'm willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary." ~ Louisa May Alcott
"Alexander the Great once said that 'I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity!' What a great illusion is this! Wise man is he who always chooses to live longer and he who blesses the obscurity!" ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
"...by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives." ~ Jonathan Waterman
"Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair; A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty." ~ Emily Bronte
"Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes." ~ Robert Mankoff
"I feel that I was made to complete things. To accomplish only a mass of beginnings and attempts would be to make a total failure of life. Perfection is the heritage with which my Creator has endowed me, and since this short life does not give completeness, I must have immortal life in which to find it." ~ Randolph Sinks Foster
"Our physical health is dependent upon energy. We have a short lifespan compared with past Yuga's." ~ Frederick Lenz
"Our physical health is dependent upon energy. We have a short lifespan compared with past Yuga's. We are made up of energy lines. The reason people lived longer is because there was less negative energy in the world." ~ Frederick Lenz
"Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our mothers. They wait for us, watch out for us, are completely fascinated by everything we do." ~ Caroline Knapp
"How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply?" ~ Joshua Foer
"I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect." ~ Queen Elizabeth II
"The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever." ~ John Muir
"Life can only be understood backwards." ~ Mackenzie Astin
"Stupid religion makes stupid beliefs, stupid leaders make stupid rules, stupid environment makes stupid health, stupid companions makes stupid behaviour, stupid movies makes stupid acts, stupid food makes stupid skin, stupid bed makes stupid sleep, stupid ideas makes stupid decisions, stupid clothes makes stupid appearance. Lets get rid of stupidity from our stupid short lives." ~ Michael Bassey
"Nowhere has truth such a short life as in Sicily; a fact has scarcely happened five minutes before its genuine kernel has vanished, been camouflaged, embellished, disfigured, squashed, annihilated by imagination and self interest; shame, fear, generosity, malice, opportunism, charity, all the passions, good as well as evil, fling themselves onto the fact and tear it to pieces; very soon it has vanished altogether." ~ Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
"I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length." ~ Avicenna
"A short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism." ~ Karel Capek
"How short life is for fools." ~ Orson Scott Card
"Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America." ~ Wilfrid Sheed
"You only get a short life, so take chances." ~ John Galliano
"Live your life to the fullest." ~ Shakira
"Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. Nevermore, however weary, should one faint by the way who gains the blessings of one mountain day; whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever." ~ John Muir
"They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life." ~ John Lennon
"But I am mistaken in speaking of a Christian republic; the terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its spirit is so favorable to tyranny that it always profits by such a regime. True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not much mind; this short life counts for too little in their eyes." ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"although she went home that night feeling happier than she had ever been in her short life, she did not confuse the golf course party with a good party, and she did not tell herself she had a pleasant time. it had been, she felt, a dumb event preceded by excellent invitations. what frankie did that was unusual was to imagine herself in control. the drinks, the clothes, the instructions, the food (there had been none), the location, everything. she asked herself: if i were in charge, how could i have done it better?" ~ E. Lockhart
"Time is long but life is short." ~ Stevie Wonder
"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams." ~ Oprah Winfrey
"Life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest." ~ John Walters
"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
"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans." ~ John Lennon
"Life is too short to work so hard." ~ Vivien Leigh
"In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular." ~ Kathleen Norris
"I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened." ~ Mark Twain
"Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance." ~ Henry Miller
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step." ~ Thomas S. Monson
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." ~ Henry David Thoreau
"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
"in this short life that only lasts ah hour how much-how little-is within our power." ~ Emily Dickinson
"Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it." ~ Emily Dickinson
"Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!" ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance." ~ Alton Brown
"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering." ~ Bruce Lee
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." ~ James Dean
"Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing." ~ Eric Davis
"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner." ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
"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
"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else." ~ Les Brown
"Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious." ~ Phillips Brooks
"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well." ~ Josh Billings
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better." ~ Samuel Beckett
"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else." ~ Emily Dickinson
"That it will never come again is what makes life sweet." ~ Emily Dickinson
"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
"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
"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed." ~ Michael Jordan
"Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope." ~ Mike Huckabee
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." ~ Wayne Gretzky
"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
"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death." ~ Albert Einstein
"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't." ~ Richard Bach
"Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind." ~ Shania Twain
"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
"I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again." ~ Eric Roth
"Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence." ~ Joseph Wood Krutch
"Youth is counted sweetest by those who are no longer young." ~ John Green
"A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start." ~ Nido R Qubein
"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
"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
"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
"Vampires, fey folk, werewolves, Shadowhunters, and demons - these things made sense to Magnus. But the mundane world - it seemed to have no pattern, no form. Their quicksilver politics. Their short lives." ~ Cassandra Clare
"I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short" ~ Charles Kennedy
"Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live." ~ Johnny Depp
"A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there." ~ Benjamin Hoff
"The part of life which we really live is short." ~ Seneca the Younger
"Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless" ~ Justin Rosenstein
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." ~ Mae West
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time." ~ Mark Twain
"As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do." ~ Zachary Scott
"Try and fail, but never fail to try!" ~ Jared Leto
"I don't want to earn my living, I want to live." ~ Oscar Wilde
"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
"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
"Why not? Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain - and this is a chance for something special." ~ Woody Allen
"No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character." ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
"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
"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
"The function of man is to live, not to exist." ~ Jack London
"No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives." ~ Winston Churchill
"I don't read such boring things. Life is too short." ~ Gyorgy Ligeti
"If there is one thing I've learned in my short life, it's this: Never repress anything." ~ Otto Gross
"I still find each day too short." ~ John Burroughs
"Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist." ~ Robin Hobb
"Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world." ~ Shirley Hazzard
"Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies." ~ Tom Waits
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life." ~ John Lennon
"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
"In these pages, and in my memories, she reminds me that a short life can also be a good and rich life, that it is possible to live with depression without being consumed by it, and that meaning in life is found together, in family and friendship that transcends and survives all manner of suffering. As the poet wrote in the Bible's Song of Solomon, 'Love is strong as death.' Or perhaps even stronger." ~ John Green
"Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats." ~ Voltaire
"I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend to do everything possible to broaden my experiences and allow myself to reach the fullest development. Then, and before physical deterioration obtrudes, I shall go on some last wilderness trip to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return." ~ Everett Ruess
"It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation but what is made up of a few game-phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots arranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of his species complaining that life is short?" ~ Joseph Addison
"I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don't want to do that. Life is to short." ~ Greg Lake
"I hope you live a life you're proud of..." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge. . . and the longest life is too short." ~ Mary Wortley Montagu
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." ~ Abraham Lincoln
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." ~ Albert Einstein
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." ~ Michael Jordan
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." ~ Robert Frost
"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want." ~ Ben Stein
"Do one thing every day that scares you." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
"Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." ~ Mark Twain
"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence." ~ Mark Twain
"The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie." ~ Ann Landers
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." ~ Anais Nin
"Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success." ~ Sivananda
"I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful." ~ Isaac Mizrahi
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." ~ Soren Kierkegaard
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." ~ Confucius
"It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly." ~ Isaac Asimov
"Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way." ~ Alan Watts
"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one." ~ Wayne Dyer
"Don't wait. The time will never be just right." ~ Napoleon Hill
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." ~ George Bernard Shaw
"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure." ~ Bill Cosby
"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today." ~ Benjamin Franklin
"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
"I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?" ~ Walter Scott
"What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act - and an authentic life. It may be a short one, but it is an authentic one, and that's a lot better than those short lives full of boredom. The principal loss is security. Another is respect from the community. But you gain the respect of another community, the one that is worth having the respect of." ~ Joseph Campbell
"Arctic-dwelling Eskimos have no choice but to eat large amounts of meat and animal fat. But let's get our facts straight: according to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Eskimos also have the highest incidences of heart disease and osteoporosis in the world and, in general, short life spans. Perhaps that is something to consider when we are faced with the choice of what to eat for dinner and unlike Eskimos most of us do have choices." ~ Sharon Gannon
"I endeavor to drink deep of philosophy, and to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient where there is no redress. The mighty can do no more, and the wise seldom do as much. ... I am resolved to make the best of all circumstances around me, that this short life may not be half lost in pains ... Between the periods of birth and burial, I would fain insert a little happiness, a little pleasure, a little peace: to-day is ours, yesterday is past, and to-morrow may never come." ~ Elizabeth Montagu
"As soon as I moved to New York, I experienced Hurricane Irene and then Hurricane Sandy hit me in quite a big way. I had 12 days without any electricity or any water. The thing that I realized the most from it was that we've become so dependent on technology. There's so much accessibility to information that suddenly when everything is cut off, you're completely lost, and you start asking deeper and more profound questions - how short life is, and how grateful we should be for things." ~ Archie Panjabi
"Being a mum makes you more aware of how short life is and how important it is to enjoy every minute because you have less time for yourself. A day doesn't have 24 hours any more - it only lasts 10, or eight. So you learn to get rid of all the parasites. I'm not talking about people, but things that could be toxic for happiness." ~ Ludivine Sagnier
"Why should it be thought incredible that the same soul should inhabit in succession an indefinite number of moral bodies? Even during this one life our bodies are perpetually changing, through a process of decay and restoration; which is so gradual that it escapes our notice. Every human being thus dwells successively in many bodies, even during one short life." ~ Francis Bowen
"What does purpose mean? It means the deepest desire for our short lives to mean something. . . . To speak a language of purpose is to return to first principles and to be able to answer, in plain English, the plain questions of Why? Why should we chip in to help someone else? Why should we defer gratification? Why should we care about the long term? Why should we trust anyone who seems to be limiting our ability to do what we want?" ~ Eric Liu
