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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
Oct 1, 2025
Life is too short to do the things you don't love doing.
Life is too short to spend in negativity. So I have made a conscious effort to not be where I don't want to be.
Life is too short to be a boring company.
Life is too short to work so hard.
One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.
As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.
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.
Life is too short for long-term grudges.
Life is too short to be doing work that doesn't make you feel happy and fulfilled. I'd rather wait for the right project, as opposed to just taking whatever is handed to me.
I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don't feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste.
Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.
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.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
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.
I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping as we all should. I dunno. You don't live that long. It doesn't matter.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
The trouble is you think you have time.
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.
Life is too short to worry about anything
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.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
Life is flying by. You don't have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward.
Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.
I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.
We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.
Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about those who don’t. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it.
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
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.
I still find each day too short.
May you live all the days of your life.