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May you find comfort and joy in these encouraging Life Is Too Short quotes.
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Embrace your uniqueness.
Time is much too short to be
living someone else's life.
- Kobi Yamada
Life is too short, time is too precious,
and the stakes are too high
to dwell on what might have been.
- Hilary Clinton
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain
Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.
- Hugh Hefner
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.
- John Burroughs
Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
- Kate Winslet
Walking takes longer...
than any other known form of locomotion except crawling.
Thus it stretches time and prolongs life.
Life is already too short to waste on speed.
- Edward Abbey
If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass,
his life is not merely brutish and short,
but dull and mechanical.
- Herbert Read
We do not know what to do with this short life,
yet we want another which will be eternal.
- Anatole France
Life is short, the art long.
- Hippocrates
Life's too short for chess.
- Henry James Byron
Life is too short to work so hard.
- Vivien Leigh
Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.
- Shirley Conran
Life is too short not to do a little practical joking.
- Krista Allen
If you're not having fun - I don't care what you're doing -
don't do it.
Move on.
Find something else, life's too short.
- Jerry Doyle
I am all for the short and merry life.
- Edward Fitzgerald
In small proportions we just beauties see;
And in short measures,
life may perfect be.
- Ben Jonson
Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
- Audre Lorde
Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot
of hard work has preceded the effort.
Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.
- Roger Staubach
Life's too short to be working with divas.
- Richard O'Brien
The life of a dancer is tragically short.
What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is
that it makes us forget that.
Because it keeps the ballet alive.
- John Guare
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
- Hippocrates
Life's too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.
- Belinda Carlisle
Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.
- Sarah Louise Delany
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 fervor.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The life of an action star is very short.
I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro ,
like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their
70s or 80s can still act.
- Jackie Chan
When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations,
and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short;
there's no history to fall back on.
- Mariel Hemingway
Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
- David Starr Jordan
Life is short and if you're looking for extension,
you had best do well.
'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions.
They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.
- Ben Harper
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly
arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.
- Kevyn Aucoin
Life is short.
Ricky and I realize how lucky we were.
We want to be together all the time.
- Christie Brinkley
Country people do not behave as if they think life is short;
they live on the principle that it is long,
and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.
- Edward Hoagland
I don't read such boring things.
Life is too short.
- Gyorgy Ligeti
Yes, you can lose somebody overnight,
yes, your whole life can be turned upside down.
Life is short.
It can come and go like a feather in the wind.
- Shania Twain
Life is too short for a long story.
- Mary Wortley Montagu
Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
- Candice Bergen
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity,
or registering wrongs.
- Charlotte Bronte
Art is eternal, but life is short.
- Evelyn de Morgan
Be patient and understanding.
Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
- Phillips Brooks
Life is short and progress is slow.
- Gabriel Lippmann
There's no point regretting things.
If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.
Life's too short to worry about things I've said.
- Robbie Williams
I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past.
I rather look into the future.
- Lou Reed
The art is long, life is short.
- Hippocrates
When men are not regretting that life is so short,
they are doing something to kill time.
- Edgar Watson Howe
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying,
but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever
form it will is sure to be short.
- Bertrand Russell
I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out.
Life's too short.
- Kate Adie
The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in
unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.
- Mary Astell
To give a character life in a short space of time,
it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.
- Jeanne Moreau
Life is too short not to experiment.
- Jamelia
It's taken me longer still to realize what a short
span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life.
That's a job for the people who lived through it.
- Jeremy Northam
I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my
life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity.
I was marking time.
I don't want to do that.
Life is to short.
- Greg Lake
Believe in yourself, not only in swimming,
but in life itself.
You always have to have fun.
You have to have an open mind.
If you're not enjoying it, don't do it.
Life's too short.
- Debbie Meyer
This is the first time in my life I've had hair this short.
It's always been down to my waist.
I can't hide behind my hair any more.
- Melissa Joan Hart
Sports life is very short.
- Sergei Bubka
To be idle is a short road to death
and to be diligent is a way of life;
foolish people are idle,
wise people are diligent.
- The Buddha
I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when
I could have been out there loving someone.
Don't make that mistake yourself.
Life's too damn short.
- Armistead Maupin
The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.
- Geoffrey Chaucer
Life is too short, and I'm Italian.
I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
- Sophia Bush
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.
- John Phillips
Life is too short to blend in.
- Paris Hilton
We are reminded how short life really is,
and how we are just passing through.
So, all the people you haven't told you love lately,
tell them, and live your days like you mean it.
- Hal Sutton
I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short.
I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.
- Jackie Chan
You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark,
and I'm there now.
- George Clooney
Asking the government to help you for short periods
of time is different than asking the government to
take care of you for the rest of your life.
- Donna Shalala
Life's to short for chess.
- Henry James Byron
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