Long Life Quotes

• A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Long, Fortune Cookie

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.90, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The secret of health, happiness, and long life: If you simply learn how to accept and express love, you will live longer...be happier...grow healthier. For love is a powerful force.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Powerful, Love You, Love Is

  Alfred Armand Montapert (1982). “Inspiration & motivation”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• Given that we desire long life, should we not take eternal life into account? If we long for a kingdom which, however enduring, has an end, and glory and joy which, great as they are, will fade, and wealth that will perish with this present life, and we labour for the sake of such things; ought we not to seek the kingdom, glory, joy and riches which, as well as being all-surpassing, are unfading and endless, and ought we not to endure a little constraint in order to inherit it?

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Order, Long

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• May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Anniversary, Long

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.87, Penguin

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• If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions .

  Hans Selye

  Long, Focus, Want

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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

  Life Is Short, Humor, Cherish Every Moment

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

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• The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Trust, Life Lesson, Men

  Henry L. Stimson (2016). “On Active Services In Peace And War”, p.416, Read Books Ltd

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• It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Life, Long, Giving

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• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.191, Harvard University Press

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• The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable... Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Hot, Burning, Dry

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• The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.

  Norman Rockwell

  Life, Moving On, Travel

  "A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography". Book by Donald Walton (p. 251), 1978.

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• A light heart lives long.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Funny Love

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 15

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• Everyone desires long life, not one old age.

  Jonathan Swift

  Long, Age, Desire

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• The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

  Philip Sidney

  Life, Happiness, Fitness

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• I do know without fear of contradiction what the definition of life is and it is 12 words long. 'Life is defined by how much you improve the lives of others.'

  Keith Olbermann

  Long, Definitions, Life Is

  Cornell Senior Convocation Speech, May 23, 1998.

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• You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Birthday, Witty

  "Fictional character: Pearl". "Interiors", www.imdb.com. 1978.

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• If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.

  Kristin Hannah

  Love, War, Long

  Kristin Hannah (2015). “The Nightingale”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Funny, Life, Sweet

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “My Best Short Stories (Annotated Edition)”, p.75, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause, there's the respect, That makes calamity of so long life

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Sleep

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.

  Ben Jonson

  Long, Treasure, Pleasure

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.620

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• Our life contains a thousand springs,
  And dies if one be gone.
  Strange! that a harp of thousand strings
  Should keep in tune so long.

  Isaac Watts

  Life, Spring, Long

  Isaac Watts (1832). “An Arrangement of the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts”, p.64

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• You will get something wrong today, and tomorrow, and every day of your life. So will I, and everybody you know. You don’t have a choice about being wrong sometimes: mistakes will be your life-long companion. But you do have a choice about whether to approach your error in terror so you suppress, ignore and repeat it — or to make it your honest, open ally in trying to get to the truth.

  Johann Hari

  Mistake, Errors, Long

  "When Were You Last Wrong? We Need to Change How We Think About Our Errors" by Johann Hari, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2010.

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• There were no "unemployed" in the impoverished Polish countryside before the Second World War. Not a single unemployed. Every child that was born in the peasant family had his room at the table and his job in the field, stable or pigsty... If there was not enough food, everybody got less. If food was plentiful, everybody ate better. In such a setting, we may say, the problem of security couldn't even arise... One was born with life-long rights; the only thing that one could not do was to change them. A setting good on the side of security, though bad on the side of freedom.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Jobs, Children, War

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• So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Innocence, Youth

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.580, Simon and Schuster

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• Why hope to live a long life if we're only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance and image repair? When we die, do we want people to exclaim 'She looked ten years younger,' or do we want them to say 'She lived a great life'?

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Life, Self, Years

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