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Life is Short Quotes

    “Here’s my frame of mind as I sit down to work: This is the day. There is no other day. This is the day. In other words, I release every thought that smacks of, ‘Maybe we can do this some other time.’ There is no other time. Today is the Superbowl. Today is the day I give birth. Today is the day I die.”

    Steven Pressfield, Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants To Be (Page 74)

      “When you realize that you have mere moments to make the world a better place before you leave it, everything changes.”

      Cole Schafer (January Black), One Minute, Please? (Page 191)

        “That in a short while you will be nobody and nowhere; and the same of all that you now see and all who are now alive. It is the nature of all things to change, to perish and be transformed, so that in succession different things can come to be.”

        Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (Page 119)

          You work and work for years and years, you're always on the go
You never take a minute off, too busy makin' dough
Someday you say, you'll have your fun, when you're a millionaire
Imagine all the fun you'll have in your old rockin' chair

Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think
Enjoy yourself, while you're still in the pink
The years go by, as quickly as a wink
Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself, it's later than you think

~ Guy Lombardo, Enjoy Yourself, It’s Later Than You Think

            “It’s not at all that we have too short a time to live, but that we squander a great deal of it. Life is long enough, and it’s given in sufficient measure to do many great things if we spend it well. But when it’s poured down the drain of luxury and neglect, when it’s employed to no good end, we’re finally driven to see that it has passed before we even recognized it passing. And so it is—we don’t receive a short life, we make it so.”

            Seneca, On the Brevity of Life, The Daily Stoic (Page 382)

              “Every day matters.  The awareness of our mortality can help us pursue a goal.  We all have a limited amount of time on earth.  Those who live in active awareness of this reality are more likely to identify goals and make progress toward them.  Or to put it another way: Everyone dies, but not everyone truly lives.”

              Chris Guillebeau, The Happiness of Pursuit (Page 268)