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How short life is for fools.
Sep 16, 2025
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.
Life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest.
Time is long but life is short.
Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.
But a society that has nothing to die for has nothing to live for . . .
Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.
The only things you regret are the things you didn't do.
We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.
Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.
Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless
Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.
Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour.
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
Begin doing what you want to do now.
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.
If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.
The trouble is you think you have time.
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
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.
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
Life is too short to worry about anything
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Learn from yesterday, live for today.
Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Don't take life too seriously.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
I still find each day too short.