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  Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein's letter to his son Eduard (February 5, 1930), as quoted in Walter Isaacson "Einstein: His Life and Universe" (p. 367), 2007.

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• Focus. Focus. Focus...on your burning priorities. Say no to everything else. Life's short. You only get one shot at great.

  Robin Sharma

  Focus, Priorities, Burning

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Nov 19, 2013

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  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

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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

  Phillips Brooks

  Patience, Short Life, Life Is Too Short

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• Life is too short to be miserable.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Life Is Too Short, Miserable, Life Is

  Rita Mae Brown (1982). “Southern discomfort”, Harpercollins

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• Life is too short not to experiment.

  Jamelia

  Life Is Too Short, Life Being Short, Life Too Short

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• Life is too short to be little.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Life, Littles

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby, etc”, p.255

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• 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

  Short Life, Life Is Too Short, Men

  "Coningsby, or The New Generation". Book by Benjamin Disraeli (Book VII, Chapter 2), 1844.

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  Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last.

  Prince

  Life, Song, Party

  Song: 1999 The Hits Mix

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• Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Revolution for the Hell of It (1968).

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  Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger.

  Channing Tatum

  Funny, Life, Beautiful

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 25, 2012

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• What is one man's life compared to the eternity of time and space? No more than a snowflake that glitters in the sun for a moment before melting into the flow of time.

  Osamu Tezuka

  Life, Time, Men

  "Buddha, Volume 2: The Four Encounters". Book by Osamu Tezuka, 1983.

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• I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Life, Death, Letting Go

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.618, Simon and Schuster

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• Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.

  Paul Bowles

  Life, Death, Time

  "The Sheltering Sky". Book by Paul Bowles, 1949.

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• You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.

  Nancy Reagan

  Life, Appreciation, Time

  "Diane Sawyer Talks With Nancy Reagan". Interview with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com. June 28.

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• We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.

  Mark Strand

  Life, Thinking, Pay

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• The journey has to feel the way you want the destination to feel.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Inspirational, Life, Journey

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  One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.22, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest.

  John Walters

  Funny, Life, Enjoy

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• Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

  Hugh Hefner

  Life, Dream, Too Short

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• Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

  John Hughes

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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  Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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