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For the sort of potential that a human being carries, it is a very brief life. -- Jaggi Vasudev
This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures. -- Rudyard Kipling
It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star -- Bill Vaughan
The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on Earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping. -- George Muller
Brief life is here our portion. -- John Mason Neale
This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love. -- Henri Nouwen
Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn. -- Randy Alcorn
None of us knows how long he shall live or when his time will come. But soon, all that will be left of our brief lives is the pride our children feel when they speak our names. -- Hiroyuki Sanada
It is crucial that we realize the great value of human existence, the opportunity and the potential that our brief lives afford us. It is only as humans that we have the possibility of implementing changes in our lives. -- Dalai Lama
Scarlet watched a leaf fall to the ground, lying dead amoung the other leaves on the forest floorA brief life seems pointless.Tristan thought for a momentIsn't that what life is, though? A brief opportunity to exist? A short gift? -- Chelsea Fine
Scarlet watched a leaf fall to the ground, lying dead amoung the other leaves on the forest floor. "A brief life seems pointless."Tristan thought for a moment. "Isn't that what life is, though? A brief opportunity to exist? A short gift? -- Chelsea Fine
People search for the meaning of life, but this is the easy question: we are born into a world that presents us with many millenia of collected knowledge and information, and all our predecessors ask of us is that we not waste our brief life ignoring the past only to rediscover or reinvent its lessons badly. -- Erik Naggum
My business is, with all my might to serve my own generation; in doing so I shall best serve the next generation, should the Lord Jesus tarry... The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping. -- George Muller
So, you want to be like Christ? Me too. But that kind of godliness won't just happen by hanging around a church or thinking lofty thoughts three or four times a day or learning a few verses of Scripture. It will take more - much more. Disciplining ourselves will require the same kind of focused thinking and living that our Master modeled during His brief life on earth. -- Charles R. Swindoll
More than simply capturing brief moments in time, MixBit helps people bring stories to life. -- Chad Hurley
Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge. -- Tom Jenkinson
I've sold a lot of different product. Very briefly, I sold Time Life Books on the phone. -- Andy Kindler
Home can be the friend you have been searching for all your life or the person you met once very briefly. -- Ben Okri
I felt bad when George Bush was booed. But only briefly. My sympathy for that man has a half-life of about four seconds. -- Dick Cavett
When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment. -- Kenneth Scott Latourette
According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time. -- Pema Chodron
Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise. -- Paul Ricoeur
My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career. -- Pete Maravich
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. -- D. H. Lawrence
Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is stretching for effect to avoid the actual life before his eyes. -- Roger Rosenblatt
When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for 'The Simpsons' who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life. -- Zadie Smith
I remember seeing my father only twice as a child for brief visits. As I grew up, I invented a father who was larger than life - stronger, smarter, more handsome, and even holier than other men. -- Kathryn Harrison
What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay. -- Moby
Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best. -- Michael Johnson
Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day. -- Daniel Boone
We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life. -- Steve Jobs
Party Down' is the most fun I've ever had working in my life. We shoot 10-episode seasons and we shoot it in 10 weeks, so it's very brief: 4-day episode shoots. You never get sick of anybody, and it never feels like a drag. It's way, way, way too short. -- Lizzy Caplan
Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch! -- George Bernard Shaw
Life is brief but love is LONG . -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Live mindful of how brief your life is. -- Horace
Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow. -- William Shakespeare
Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously. -- Robert Breault
Life is brief. Always act out of love, never fear. -- Michael Lomenda
Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes -- James Altucher
Life is a campaign, a brief staying in a strange region. -- Marcus Aurelius
How much past there is in a life, however brief it be. -- Madame de Stael
Life is so brief and time is a thief when you're undecided. -- Rod Stewart
Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides. -- Carl Sagan
And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief; -- William C. Bryant
Life is a very brief candle especially when you burn it at both ends -- Josh Stern
How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly. -- Edward Dunlop
... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty. -- Garrison Keillor
Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge. -- Tom Jenkinson
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Some people can touch your life for a brief moment but will leave an imprint for a lifetime. -- Lisa Williams
Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential. -- B. Alan Wallace
Funny how someone can come into your life for such a brief time but leave such a lasting impression. -- Monica Murphy
Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells. -- Lian Hearn
In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life. -- Lucretius
This life is but a brief tenure, one of many perspectives a spirit must experience in the quest for eternity. -- Brian Rathbone
Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale -- Bertrand Russell
No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes. -- George Eliot
Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. -- Bertrand Russell
I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life. -- Alexander McCall Smith
Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition. -- Alastair Humphreys
In life's brief game to be a winner A man must have...oh yes, above All else, of course, someone to love. -- Vikram Seth
The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short. -- Michael Ignatieff
Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. -- William Shakespeare
Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song. -- Bliss Carman
Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one? -- Sydney J. Harris
Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise. -- Poul Anderson
And though the years before I die Stretch out interminably, I Shall only count my life in truth As that brief hour of happy youth. -- Ibn Hazm
Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem. -- Kiki Dimoula
In our age of increasing distractions it's more important than ever to find ways to maintain perspective and remember that life is brief and tender. -- Candy Chang
Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life. -- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us. -- Juvenal
Travelers, it is late. Life's sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings -- Rumi
I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and I stumbled. -- Paullina Simons
Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life? -- Mo Yan
Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it. -- Cormac McCarthy
Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got! -- Yann Martel
Life is like a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Very popular and not as bad as some would have you believe. That is, unspeakably awful but mercifully brief. -- Simon Munnery
Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the ecstatic kind, is available to us. -- Christopher Hitchens
Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief. -- Oliver Gaspirtz
Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment. -- Dogen
Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price. -- Oriana Fallaci
One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. -- Oscar Wilde
As an atheist, I believe that all life is unspeakably precious, because it's only here for a brief moment, a flare against the dark, and then it's gone forever. -- J. Michael Straczynski
There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that. -- Mark Twain

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