Quotes and Sayings About Short Life
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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 -
I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.
-- Alexander the Great -
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 -
A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.
-- Avicenna -
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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 -
I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.
-- Boris Becker -
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 -
I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short
-- Charles Kennedy -
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 -
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 -
We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.
-- Edith Schaeffer -
Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.
-- Elizabeth Bowen -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
One who contends with immortals lives a very short life.
-- Homer -
I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful.
-- Isaac Mizrahi -
A long life or a short life are of equal importance to God.
-- Jack Black -
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 -
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 -
Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself.
-- John Ruskin -
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 -
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 -
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