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• Life is short and art is long.

  Seneca the Younger

  Art, Long, Life Is

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• Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.

  Joseph Conrad

  Art, Writing, Long

  Joseph Conrad (1962). “The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'”, p.6, Gottfried & Fritz

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• Life is short and so is money.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Cute, Life Is

  Bertolt Brecht, Desmond Ivo Vesey, Eric Bentley (1964). “The Threepenny Opera”, p.85, Grove Press

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• Accomplish something every day of your life.

  Walter Annenberg

  Life, Inspire, Accomplish

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• Life is too short for us to keep important words, for example, 'I love you', locked in our hearts.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love You, Life Is Too Short, Heart

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 17, 2014

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• I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.'

  Kate Adie

  Funny, Life Is Too Short, Missing

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• Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Life, Leadership

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• You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that you have to live each day like it's your last. Bullshit. Life is long. You're probably not gonna get hit by a bus. And you're gonna have to live with the choices you make for the next fifty years.

  Chris Rock

  Humor, Cherish Every Moment, Years

  "I Think I Love My Wife". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.

  Marissa Mayer

  Inspirational, Interesting, Want

  "Marissa Mayer: Six life lessons from Yahoo CEO" by Rose Hoare, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2012.

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• Life is too short to learn German

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, German Language, Insulting

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• He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don’t want them to feel you’ve dishonored them. Yes, I know how it is. But life is short. A chance for great happiness doesn’t come along all that often.

  Dean Koontz

  People, Unhappy, Different

  Dean Koontz (1995). “The Key to Midnight”, p.216, Penguin

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• Life is short, and potential studies infinite. We have a much better chance of accomplishing something significant when we follow our passionate interests and work in areas of deepest personal meaning.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Passionate, Chance, Study

  Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Life is short, have dessert first.

  Wendy Mass

  Dessert First, Firsts, Life Is

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• ... life is short and the world is wide

  Simon Raven

  Travel, World, Wide

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• life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

  Aldous Huxley

  Information, Life Is, Endless

  Aldous Huxley (2008). “Brave New World Revisited”, p.21, Random House

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• People complain that life is short,for me it seems very long.

  Alija Izetbegovic

  Long, People, Complaining

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• Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Philosophy, Long

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3)”, p.10, Kshetra Books

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• Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.

  Publilius Syrus

  Lasts, Misfortunes

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• Life is short for those who are truly able to understand that one day the entire world will come to a complete end. Not everyone is capable of that. Not everyone has the ability to comprehend what going away for all eternity really implies. There are too many distractions, hour by hour, minute by minute, to hinder such an understanding.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Understanding, One Day, Going Away

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “The Orange Girl”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was 'Life is short; eat dessert first.' How can I argue with that?

  Wendy Mass

  Sweet, Dad, Dessert First

  Wendy Mass (2008). “Jeremy Fink and the meaning of life”

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• There is someone out there that will love you.They'll want you for you.Don't settle for less.Life is short and I'm tired of wasting it

  Abbi Glines

  Love You, Tired, Want

  Abbi Glines (2013). “Twisted Perfection”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• You might think, 'I've got time to follow my dreams.' You don't have time. Life is short. The current life expectancy is 24,869 days. While some of us will live more days and some fewer, either way you have only a precious number of days to live this life, and so you do not have time to put off your dreams. It is now or never. If you don't do it now, you will keep putting it off, and you'll never do it. The time is now!

  Rhonda Byrne

  Dream, Thinking, Numbers

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• Leap, and the net will appear.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Positive, Success, Faith

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• Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Car, Twenties, Pace

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.371, Vintage

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• Cease, cows, life is short.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Cows, Life Is, Cease

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