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No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives.
Sep 10, 2025
Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.
A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
Focus. Focus. Focus...on your burning priorities. Say no to everything else. Life's short. You only get one shot at great.
I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.
Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless
If you stop struggling, then you stop life.
Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.
The older you get, the more you learn.
The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.
Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair; A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
Our physical health is dependent upon energy. We have a short lifespan compared with past Yuga's.
Our physical health is dependent upon energy. We have a short lifespan compared with past Yuga's. We are made up of energy lines. The reason people lived longer is because there was less negative energy in the world.
Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. Nevermore, however weary, should one faint by the way who gains the blessings of one mountain day; whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.
Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.
I hope you live a life you're proud of...
The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.
How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply?
It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
Life is an island. People come out of the sea, cross the island, and return to the sea. But this short life is long and beautiful. In getting to know nature man exalts the wonder and beauty of life.
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
But I am mistaken in speaking of a Christian republic; the terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its spirit is so favorable to tyranny that it always profits by such a regime. True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not much mind; this short life counts for too little in their eyes.
...by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives.
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?
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.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.
The art is long, life is short
Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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.
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
I endeavor to drink deep of philosophy, and to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient where there is no redress. The mighty can do no more, and the wise seldom do as much. ... I am resolved to make the best of all circumstances around me, that this short life may not be half lost in pains ... Between the periods of birth and burial, I would fain insert a little happiness, a little pleasure, a little peace: to-day is ours, yesterday is past, and to-morrow may never come.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
I still find each day too short.