Live in Full Awareness - 21 Life is Too Short Quotes to Ponder Now

Our time on this planet is too brief and precious. So avoid getting stuck living in what might have been or vibrating with anger and resentment. The best way to approach your journey is to learn from yesterday, prepare for tomorrow, and live today like it is your last. Below are some Life is Too Short Quotes to help you appreciate this beautiful moment.

Life is Too Short Quotes:

“Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness.”
— Kalidasa

“Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.”
— Victor Hugo

“Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.”
— Stephen Vincent Benét

“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”
— Buddha

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“Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.”
— Christian Gellert

“Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.”
— Dale Carnegie

“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.”
— Jean de La Bruyère

“There’s not enough time to be disrespecting… Life is too short.”
— Mary J. Blige

“Learn to get from the day. Not just get through it, get from it. Soak it up. Each day is a piece of the mosaic of your life.”
— Jim Rohn

“Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend.”
— John Green

“If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.”
— Larry McMurtry

“Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.”
— Deepak Chopra

“Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly”
— Paulo Coelho

“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.”
— Seth Godin

“If you want something, don’t wish for it. Life is too short to wait.”
— Stephen Hines

“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
— Abraham Lincoln

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma.”
— Steve Jobs

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none."
— Albert Einstein

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.”
— Wayne Dyer

“Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don’t hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down”
— Zig Ziglar

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