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Life is short


I say life is short, live as good as you can, let us see what some great persons said :

A. Powell Davies:



  • Life is just a chance to grow a soul.

Abraham Lincoln:


  • And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Adrienne Rich:


  • Life on the planet is born of woman.

Alan Bennett:


  • Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

Albert Einstein:


  • True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

  • Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Schweitzer:


  • There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.


  • Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.Civilization and Ethics, 1949
Alice Walker:


  • Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.


  • Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.
Amelia Burr:


  • Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
Anais Nin:


  • Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anais Nin:


  • People living deeply have no fear of death.


  • The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.


  • Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Annie Dillard:


  • How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Barry Lopez:


  • How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.Arctic Dreams
Ben Jonson:


  • A good life is a main argument.
Benjamin Disraeli:


  • Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Benjamin Franklin:


  • Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of.
Bertrand Russell:




  • Three passions have governed my life:The longings for love, the search for knowledge, And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind]. Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness. In the union of love I have seen In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined. With equal passion I have sought knowledge.I have wished to understand the hearts of [people]. I have wished to know why the stars shine. Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,But always pity brought me back to earth; Cries of pain reverberated in my heartOf children in famine, of victims tortured And of old people left helpless.I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,And I too suffer. This has been my life; I found it worth living. adapted
Buckminster Fuller:


  • Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
Buddha:


  • If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard:


  • Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived. played by Patrick Stewart, from the film "Star Trek: Generations"
Carl Jung:


  • There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Sandburg:


  • Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
Carl Sandburg:


  • Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
Charlotte Bronte:


  • Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
Chinese proverb:


  • When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
Colette:


  • I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
Colette:


  • Life is nothing but a series of crosses for us mothers.
Corita Kent:


  • Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.
Corita Kent:


  • Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
Dorothy Thompson:


  • Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.
Dorothy Thompson:


  • Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
E. B. White:


  • You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
Edith Wharton:


  • Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Emily Dickinson:


  • To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Ernest Becker:


  • The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.
Ernest Becker:


  • [W]e now know that the human animal is characterized by two great fears that other animals are protected from: the fear of life and the fear of death... Heidegger brought these fears to the center of his existential philosophy. He argued that the basic anxiety of [humanity] is anxiety about being-in-the-world, as well as anxiety of being-in-the-world. That is, both fear of death and fear of life, of experience and individuation.
Ernest Becker:


  • I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived truth of the terror of creation, of the grotesque, of the rumble of panic underneath everything. Otherwise it is false. Whatever is achieved must be achieved with the full exercise of passion, of vision, of pain, of fear, and of sorrow. How do we know ... that our part of the meaning of the universe might not be a rhythm in sorrow?
Franklin P. Jones:


  • Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Frederick Buechner:


  • The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.
Friedrich Nietzsche:


  • And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
George Bernard Shaw:


  • I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
HH the Dalai Lama:


  • What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.

Helen Keller:


  • Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Henri Frederick Amiel:


  • Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Henry David Thoreau:


  • However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Henry James:


  • Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Henry Van Dyke:


  • Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:



  • Tell me not, in mournful numbers,

  • Life is but an empty dream!

  • For the soul is dead that slumbers,

  • and things are not what they seem.

  • Life is real! Life is earnest!

  • And the grave is not its goal;

  • Dust thou art; to dust returnest,

  • Was not spoken of the soul.
Immanuel Kant:


  • Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant:


  • Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Isaac Asimov:


  • If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
Margaret Fuller:


  • Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Maria Mitchell:


  • Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Pearl S. Buck:


  • The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.


  • The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Rabindranath Tagore:


  • The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment. from Gitanjali
Ralph Ellison:


  • Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:


  • We are always getting ready to live but never living.


  • Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.:


  • Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
Robert Frost:


  • In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Sarah Bernhardt:


  • Life begets life. Energy becomes energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Theodore Rubin:


  • There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Ursula K. LeGuin:


  • If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives.... But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
Victor Frankl:


  • If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So, if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life.
Victor Frankl:


  • A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."
Victor Frankl:


  • We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by doing a deed; (2) by experiencing a value; and (3) by suffering.
Victor Hugo:


  • Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Virginia Satir:


  • Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.
Wallace Stegner:


  • Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Will Rogers:


  • Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
William Blake:


  • For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
William James:


  • Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life. The Varieties of Religious Experience, 1902


  • These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact.Is Life Worth Living?
Winston Churchill:


  • We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Zeno:


  • The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.