Life Span Quotes

• Every problem has a limited life span.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Life, Inspiring, Problem

  Robert H Schuller (2006). “Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!”, p.49, Orient Paperbacks

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• Music has no limits of a life-span.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Limits

  Nadine Gordimer (2007). “Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black: And Other Stories”, p.158, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• No time for drug addiction, no time for smoke or booze. Too strong for a shortened life span, I've got no time to lose.

  Henry Rollins

  Strong, Addiction, Alcohol

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• Dreams are, by definition cursed with short life spans.

  Candice Bergen

  Love, Life, Dream

  Candice Bergen (2014). “Knock Wood”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• Mindful parenting is the hardest job on the planet, but it's also one that has the potential for the deepest kinds of satisfactions over the life span, and the greatest feelings of interconnectedness and community and belonging.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Mom, Jobs, Hardest Job

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• A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child.

  John Steinbeck

  Children, Fall, Men

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.15, Penguin

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• Even as the unborn babe is in the womb of his mother, these five are fixed as his life destiny: his life span, his activities, his acquisition of wealth and knowledge, and his time of death.

  Chanakya

  Mother, Destiny, Religion

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• Using any reasonable definition of a scientist, we can say that 80 to 90 percent of all the scientists that have ever lived are alive now. Alternatively, any young scientist, starting now and looking back at the end of his career upon a normal life span, will find that 80 to 90 percent of all scientific work achieved by the end of the period will have taken place before his very eyes, and that only 10 to 20 percent will antedate his experience.

  Derek J. de Solla Price

  Life, Taken, Hard Work

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• When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?

  Cyril Connolly

  Men, Years, Garbage Cans

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• Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty "fixes" that harm our long-term health, since our life spans are inverted under the beauty myth, and there is no great social or economic incentive for women to live a long time.

  Naomi Wolf

  Makeup, Long, Doe

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• I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.

  Ben Barnes

  Uncles, War, Average

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• If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend the life-span of mortal men…. There is perhaps no clearer testimony to the loss of the public realm in the modern age than the almost complete loss of authentic concern with immortality, a loss somewhat overshadowed by the simultaneous loss of the metaphysical concern with eternity.

  Hannah Arendt

  Loss, Men, Space

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.55, University of Chicago Press

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• Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?

  Joan Didion

  Time, Memories, Night

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Nov 22, 2014

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• I recently read in the book My Stroke of Insight by brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor that the natural life span of an emotion—the average time it takes for it to move through the nervous system and body—is only a minute and a half. After that we need thoughts to keep the emotion rolling. So if we wonder why we lock into painful emotional states like anxiety, depression, or rage, we need look no further than our own endless stream of inner dialogue.

  Tara Brach

  Moving, Book, Emotional

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• You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Thinking, Light, Years

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.37, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

  Deepak Chopra

  Drug, Done, Kind

  "The Real Secret to Staying Healthy for Life (Part 1)" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2012.

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• Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.

  Mike Huckabee

  Short Life, Emotion, Marathon

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• I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span.

  LL Cool J

  Artist, Careers, People

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• In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees.

  Michio Kaku

  Imagine, Genes, Chimpanzees

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• By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Cousin, Animal

  "What the AKC Won’t Tell You About Its Top 10 Breeds" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2013.

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• Life hinges on many factors we cannot control. Two of the most important factors, we can control. We can manage our relationships-and what is life but a series of relationships?-and we can correct our mistakes, here on earth within our life span.

  Leon Uris

  Mistake, Two, Important

  Leon Uris (1995). “Redemption”, G K Hall & Company

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• Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Life, Butterfly, Average

  Ellen DeGeneres (2003). “The Funny Thing Is...”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Breathe in, breath out. Oxygen is carcinogenic and likely puts a limit on our life span. It would be unwise though, to try to extend life by not breathing at all. Which of us doesn't do it? Either we loll in anaerobic stupor, too afraid to fill our lungs with risky beauty, or we roll out fire like dragons, destroying the world we love. I try not to burn up my world with rage. It is so hard.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Fire, Dragons, Oxygen

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• Look, there’s nothing I’m ever going to tell you about me that’s the truth. The more you know about me, the shorter your life span is going to be. All you need to know is that I don’t miss. In fact, you don’t even need to know exactly how good I really am, because if you ever find out, you’re going to be dead. (Steele)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Missing, Needs, Looks

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Bad Attitude”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• Before I tell you my story," Jasper said. "you must understand that there are places in our world, Bella, where the life span of the never-aging is measured in weeks, and not centuries.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Our World, Stories, Aging

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