Short Life Quotes - Page 4

• Believe you can and you're halfway there.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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• Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.

  Eric Davis

  Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short, Next Day

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

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• Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Life Is Short, Life Is, Feels

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• Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Song: 'Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)' ('Double Fantasy')". 1980.

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• Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Life is too short to work so hard.

  Vivien Leigh

  Life, Inspire, Too Short

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• I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  John Burroughs (1913). “The Writings of John Burroughs. [”

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• Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.

  Henry Miller

  Long, Want, Surveillance

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

  Kathleen Norris

  Funny, Life, Witty

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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

  John Walters

  Funny, Life, Enjoy

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• The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

  Bruce Lee

  Life, Motivational, Memories

  "Fictional character: Bruce Lee". "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story", www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes.

  Robert Mankoff

  Fruit Flies, Cartoon, Use

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• I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend to do everything possible to broaden my experiences and allow myself to reach the fullest development. Then, and before physical deterioration obtrudes, I shall go on some last wilderness trip to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.

  Everett Ruess

  Philosophy, Interesting, Creative

  Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”

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• Live your life to the fullest.

  Shakira

  Life, Birthday, Beauty

  "I Know What I Stand For". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 29, 2009.

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• What does purpose mean? It means the deepest desire for our short lives to mean something. . . . To speak a language of purpose is to return to first principles and to be able to answer, in plain English, the plain questions of Why? Why should we chip in to help someone else? Why should we defer gratification? Why should we care about the long term? Why should we trust anyone who seems to be limiting our ability to do what we want?

  Eric Liu

  Mean, Long, Desire

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• You only get a short life, so take chances.

  John Galliano

  Chance, Take A Chance

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• A short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism.

  Karel Capek

  Men, Long, Optimism

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• When you love life, life will love you back.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Positive, Attitude, Love You

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• I hope you live a life you're proud of...

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Tough Times, Proud, Buttons

  "Fictional character: Benjamin Button". "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", 2008.

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• Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Opportunity, Thinking

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.75

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