After all is said and done, a life isn’t significant except for its impact on other lives.

My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -not to mention accidents- even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a journey.

Life is very fleeting. It’s important to be gentle and optimistic. We look behind and think what we’ve done in this life has been good. It was simple; it was modest. Everyone creates their own story and moves on. That’s it. I don’t feel particularly important. What we create is not important. We’re very insignificant.

But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.

Life is short. Short, and not about anything except what you can touch and what touches you.

Life’s too short” is repeated often enough to be a cliché, but this time it’s true. You don’t have enough time to be both unhappy and mediocre. It’s not just pointless; it’s painful. — SETH GODIN

We live in an age when we have forgotten what life is all about.

Life is short and there’s so much more to life than we’re ever going to know.

Life is but a memory,
Happened long ago.
Theatre full of sadness
For a long forgotten show.
Seems so easy
Just to let it go on by
Till you stop and wonder
Why you never wondered why.

"Life's too short" is repeated often enough to be a cliche, but this time it's true. You don't have enough time to be both unhappy and mediocre. It's not just pointless, it's painful. Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you ought to set up a life you don't need to escape from.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.

Life is too short to be lived badly.

Life is just too short to waste any of our emotional energy on things that don’t matter.