Quotes of: Short-life Keyword

Being a mum makes you more aware of how short life is and how important it is to enjoy every minute because you have less time for yourself. A day doesn't have 24 hours any more - it only lasts 10, or eight. So you learn to get rid of all the parasit...

Ludivine Sagnier

For how long are you going to allow your fears to stand in your way? Life is definitely too short to be waiting around because of fear. You are more courageous than you could ever possibly imagine. Please don't let yourself down. You were born to exc...

Edmond Mbiaka

You cannot pursue all your goals simultaneously or satisfy all your desires at once. And it's an emotional drain to think you can. Instead, you must focus on long-term fulfillment rather than short-term success and, at various points in your life, th...

Eric C. Sinoway

Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean. Every wave & ripple has a very short lived life - it is very fleeting Do not identify with your thoughts - continued indentification with the stream of thi...

Eckhart Tolle

I think taking vacations and turning off the phone and only doing emails or social media for a specific short amount of time helps with work/life balance. If I'm checking it all day I start to feel cuckoo-bird. So I just do it once or twice a day ins...

Maria Bamford

Well,' I said. 'I could strip off my clothes and reveal to you that under my jeans and sweatshirt I'm actually wearing a tank top and short-shorts, much like Lara Croft from ...only mine are flame-retardant and covered in glow-in-the-dark dinosaur st...

Airhead

He couldn’t look back at the children. He couldn’t think of it. All he could do was watch the eyes of his wife. He pulled her to him, her body soft, her skin warm. She was life, she was his. He took her lips and tasted his freedom once more. The ...

Distant Passages - Volume 2: More of the Best Short Stories and Poetry from Double-Edged Publishing

God, thank you for waking me up this morning. I want to embrace every day, however limited my day may be, as a gift from God. I want to live this day to its fullest. I know there are things I can no longer do. I know I am facing daily limitations. Bu...

Prayers & Promises When Facing a Life-Threatening Illness: 30 Short Morning and Evening Reflections

Some people say readin too many books will stunt your growth.

Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Five Short Novels of Stendhal: The Duchess of Palliano, Vittoria Accoramboni, The Abbess of Castro, Vanina Vanini and The Cenci

Christ, they’d be getting a cat next. He mentally recoiled from the idea: the day they did that, he’d cut off his dick and call himself a lesbian.

Four Chances: A Short Story Quartet

I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feel The wind that blows beyond the moon, who do not hear the fairy reel

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don’t need to make smart decisions—if they can get rich making dumb decisions?

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

Guys willing to hold your dick are a dime a dozen; save your hearts for the one who wants to hold your hand.

Silver Shorts 2012, Week 12

On a cooler sun on a primordial earth: "I later learned that biologists, when they are feeling jocose, refer to this as the 'Chinese Resaturant Problem'--because we has a dim sun.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian's mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything.

A Short Guide to Writing about History

Other translations may engage the mind, but the King James Version is the Bible of the heart.

The King James Bible: A Short History from Tyndale to Today

..Holidays far apart from each other, going short of things, hours of cold and solitude? Fears? Does money cut distances short, bring people together?

The List of my Desires

Love is like trying to put out a fire with a pair of scissors. I have a thing for redheads with short hair.


Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

They’re so brave," she said. "They’re all dead." "Only a coward would think of that," she said scornfully.

Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card