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Short Quotes about Life
Short Life Quotes

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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous

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Short Quotes about Life


To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

Life is a choice.
- Anonymous

Live life to the fullest.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius

Be true to thyself.
- rephrasing of Shakespeare's famous quote

Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous

Dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Follow your own star.
- Anonymous

Live Your Dreams.
- Les Brown

Count Your Blessings.
- Og Mandino

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous

Love conquers all.
- Virgil

Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll

Many hands make light work.
- Anonymous

Anything Is Possible.
- Anonymous

Strike while the iron is hot.
- Anonymous

Know thyself.
- Socrates

Laughter is the best medicine.
- Anonymous

Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe

This too, shall pass.
- Bible

What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare

Follow Your Dreams.
- Anonymous

Courage doesn't always roar.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose the World You See.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning
-Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Experience is the best teacher.
- Anonymous

Believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies

It's never too late.
- Anonymous

Actions speak louder than words.
- Anonymous

Be Here Now.
- Ram Dass

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw

Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

Pain is inevitable, Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist proverb

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Happiness depends upon ourselves
- Aristotle

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy

You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

Short Love Quotes and Sayings

Where there is great love there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau

I love you more than yesterday, less than tomorrow.
- Edmond Rostand

Love is a grave mental disease.
- Plato

Love is being stupid together.
- Paul Valery

All mankind love a lover.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Love is loving what your lover loves.
- Anonymous

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken

Love is not something you feel. It's something you do.
- David Wilkerson

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken

Love is a game that two can play and both win.
- Eva Gabor

Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West

Love is loving what your lover loves.
- Anonymous

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
- Rose Franken

The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous

Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Short Quotes and Sayings

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
- Mahatma Gandhi

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
- George Bernard Shaw

Earth laughs in flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier

Short Sayings

To err is human, to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

Leap and the net will appear.
- John Burroughs

No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus

Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb

Persistence prevails when all else fails!
- Anonymous

To measure the man, measure his heart.
- Malcolm Forbes

Envy breeds hate.
- Yiddish Proverb

Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus

Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb

Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb

If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy

Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb

Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Brontë

Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday
- Anonymous

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden

Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Stephenie Meyer

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock

Whatever happens, take responsibility.
- Tony Robbins

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle

Be gentle first with yourself.
- Lama Yeshe

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie

Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
- George Bernard Shaw

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
- Khalil Gibran

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato

The brightest stars are those who shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous

The lessons of the past provide the path to the future.
- Anonymous

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
- John Wooden

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
- Publilius Syrus

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
- Mark Twain

Life is Too Short Quotes

You're only here for a short visit. So don't forget to stop and smell the roses.
- Walter Hagen

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
- Anonymous

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen

What is life?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across
the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
- Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator 1830 - 1890

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, "It might have been".
- John Greenleaf Whittier

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
- George Bernard Shaw

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck

Those we love don't go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear.
- Anonymous

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb

Parting is such sweet sorrow.
- William Shakespeare

I've learned that you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau


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