Quotes on Short Life

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

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

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.

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

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.

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.

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

"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."

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.

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.

Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose_x000D_ _x000D_ he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it._x000D_ _x000D_ But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life_x000D_ _x000D_ that one exists for other people.

‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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.