Short Life Quotes - Page 8

• Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• Life is too short to worry about anything

  Eric Davis

  Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short, Meaningless Things

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

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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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• "Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I shall be read? Seven." "Why seven?" Bunin asked. "Well," Chekhov answered, "seven and a half then."

  Anton Chekhov

  Life, Years, Half

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• In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I've no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I'm willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Good Life, Real, Book

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• Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

  Peter Charles Newman

  Life, Draining, Exhausting

  Peter Charles Newman (1975). “The Canadian Establishment”

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• I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to read, to wield a hammer in a great factory, to keep watch at sea, to plow. I want to be walking along the Nevsky Prospect, or in the open fields, or on the ocean - wherever my imagination ranges.

  Anton Chekhov

  Life, Ocean, Men

  Anton Chekhov (2011). “Forty Stories”, p.11, Vintage

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• All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.

  Charles Hazlewood

  Fire, New Life, Form

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• As soon as I moved to New York, I experienced Hurricane Irene and then Hurricane Sandy hit me in quite a big way. I had 12 days without any electricity or any water. The thing that I realized the most from it was that we've become so dependent on technology. There's so much accessibility to information that suddenly when everything is cut off, you're completely lost, and you start asking deeper and more profound questions - how short life is, and how grateful we should be for things.

  Archie Panjabi

  New York, Grateful, Cutting

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• Alexander the Great once said that 'I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity!' What a great illusion is this! Wise man is he who always chooses to live longer and he who blesses the obscurity!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Wise, Men

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• My greatest accomplishment is succeeding in life, and I owe that to my family and twenty years in the military. I don't regret leaving the farm and ranch for the Army. Although I may have been a disappointment to my father, I achieved more than he could ever dream of in his short life.

  Tom Johnson

  Dream, Disappointment, Regret

  Source: ravenswoodpublishing.blogspot.com

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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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• I want to experience as much as I can in this very short life that we have.

  Theo Rossi

  Want, Very Short Life, I Can

  "ORIGIN Interview: Sons of Anarchy Actor Theo Rossi". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Cheer Up, Reality

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• I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Joy, Important, Waste

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• It would be more concerned with the Whole than the parts and has to proceed from the premise that death and pain, short life spans, and no bread without sweat must be accepted.

  Stephanie Mills

  Pain, Sweat, Would Be

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I loved playing [the Doctor], and taking part in the basic essence and message of the series which is, it's a short life, seize it, and live it as fully as you can. Care for others. Be respectful of all other life forms, regardless of colour or creed. To be part of that was fantastic.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Doctors, Essence, Care

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• Would we as a nation be better off dealing with the truth rather than believing fantasies that prop up the Status Quo and the Fed's dearly beloved measure of the economy, the stock market? How often does accepting illusion help us navigate real life? Short answer: never.

  Charles Hugh Smith

  Real, Believe, Doe

  "Here's The Sad Truth About The 'Best Job Growth Since 2006'". www.businessinsider.com. March 11, 2012.

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• Life is short. Life goes fast. And what I really want to do in my life is to bring something new, something beautiful and something filled with light into the world. I try to think of that every day so that I can remember why I am coming to my studio.

  Ross Bleckner

  Beautiful, Life Is Short, Thinking

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• Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close: — then let every one of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others — some goodly strength or knowledge gained for yourselves.

  John Ruskin

  Morning, Dawn, Done

  "Lectures on Art: Delivered Before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870".

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• Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Life, Light, Long

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• We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Years, Today, Sometimes

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• The only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

  Michael Curtiz

  Regret, Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short

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• Art is eternal, but life is short.

  Evelyn De Morgan

  Life, Inspiring, Art

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