Short Life Quotes - Page 2

• Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Life, Respect, Nature

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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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• There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Hair, Aristocracy

  Letter to John Adams, 28 Oct. 1813

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• The art is long, life is short

  Hippocrates

  Art, Life Is Short, Reality

  Hippocrates (1923). “Ancient Medicine, Airs, Waters, Places, Epidemics 1 and 3, the Oath, Precepts, Nutriment”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Order, Long

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• If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

  Huey Newton

  Life, Failure, Struggle

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  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.

  Cary Grant

  Life, Morning, Simple

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  In Plato 'Apology' 38a

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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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• When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

  Boris Becker

  Life, Hero, Firefighter

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Reflection

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.8, Broadway Books

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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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• I look back and half of Ramadan is over in the blink of an eye. Before I know I'll be saying that about my entire life

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Eye, Half, Ramadan

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Jul 12, 2014

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• Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happy, Appreciate, Best Short

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• Live the life you've dreamed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Single, Live Life, Literature

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• Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.

  Timothy Fuller

  Life, Mind, Trying

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• Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Life, Men

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• In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Life, Emotion, Wave

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.120, New World Library

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• 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.

  Jack London

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• The older you get, the more you learn.

  Martina Hingis

  Sports, Life Is Short, Friends Come And Go

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• What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act - and an authentic life. It may be a short one, but it is an authentic one, and that's a lot better than those short lives full of boredom. The principal loss is security. Another is respect from the community. But you gain the respect of another community, the one that is worth having the respect of.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Respect, Loss

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• No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Character, Duty

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 440-55, Tusculanarum Disputationum, I. 45, 1922.

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• The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Walden ch. 1 (1854)

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