Quotes on Short Life

The art is long, life is short

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

The part of life which we really live is short.

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.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

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.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

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.

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

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.

Where is the Life we lost in living?

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

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.

Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions.

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

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.