150+ Life’s Too Short Quotes To Inspire You To Enjoy Every Moment

These life’s too short quotes will help you put things back into perspective for when you’re bogged down in the everyday stress of life.

Life is too short

“Life’s too short to waste time on things that don’t matter.” This is a statement that we have all heard at some point in our lives, and it is true. We only have a limited amount of time on this earth, and we should spend it doing things that make us happy. There are many things in life that don’t matter, and we should focus on the things that do.

There are many things that we can do to make the most of our time. We can spend time with our loved ones, pursuing our hobbies, or doing something that we are passionate about. We should also make sure to take care of our physical and mental health. When we are happy and healthy, we are able to enjoy our lives more.

One of the best ways to make sure that we are living our lives to the fullest is to surround ourselves with positive people. These people will help us to stay motivated and inspired. They will also remind us of what is important in life.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

― Helen Keller

Life is short quotes

If you are looking for some inspiration, here are some life’s too short quotes that will remind you to make the most of your time.

Best Life is Too Short Quotes

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

– George M. Adams

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves. - George M. Adams


Life’s too short to wait, but sometimes, a few things, a few people, a few magicks, a few miracles are worth the wait.

– Radhika Mundra


After all, life is too short to be anything but happy.

– Karl Marx

After all, life is too short to be anything but happy. - Karl Marx


Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake….

– Francis Bacon


Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

– Victor Hugo


Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

– Stendhal

 


Life is short. Time is fast. No replay. No rewind. So enjoy every moment as it comes.

– Unknown

 


One Life is about realizing there’s no second chances in this one life that we were given to live.

– Jonathan Anthony Burkett


Every moment of life is precious and can never happen again and therefore is a reason to appreciate, be grateful for and celebrate the fact that you are alive.

– Zelig Pliskin


The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

– Dolly Parton

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. - Dolly Parton


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

Albert Einstein


Be the best part of you. Live your own best life. Recognize that we all have things we are good at, things we are not good at, and everything in between.

– Ari Gunzburg

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Live honestly to a higher note. Life is too short. So, do the best you can and live your life to a higher note.

– Kimora Lee Simmons


Life is available only in the present moment. If you abandon the present moment you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

– Thich Nhat Hanh

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The trick is to enjoy life. Don’t wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.

– Marjorie Pay Hinckley


Don’t let fear interfere. It’s how you use your fear that counts. Don’t let it exhaust you -let it excite you. Change the narrative. You only get one life.

– Brittany Burgunder


No regrets … just lessons. No worries … just acceptance. No expectations … just gratitude. Life is too short.

– Jesse Joseph

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Quotes on Life Being Too Short

Life is short, so I’m knowing exactly where I’m putting my time. I don’t want to do things that I don’t have to do.

– Mira Nair


Enjoy every moment you have. Because in life, there are no rewinds, only flashbacks.

– Anmol Andore


You have this one life! How do you wanna spend it? Apologizing? Regretting? Questioning? Hating yourself? Running after people who don’t see you? Be brave. Believe in yourself. Do what feels good. Take risks. You have this one life. Make yourself proud.

– Unknown


Our time here on this planet is limited. Focus on what brings you joy – not brings you stress.

– Unknown


All things that live, die. This is why you must find joy in the living, while the time is yours, and not fear the end. To deny this is to deny life. To fear this…is to fear life.

– Joe Kelly


Life is short. Stop worrying so much. Have fun. Be grateful. Be yourself. Don’t allow others to bring you down. Life is a one time offer. Live to your fullest.

– Karen Salmansohn


I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

– Lou Reed


If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

– Larry Mcmurtry

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older. - Larry Mcmurtry


As you grow older, you’ll find the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do.

– Zachary Scott


Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

– Friedrich Nietzche


Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

– Paulo Coelho


In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln


There comes a point in your life when your love for yourself needs to become more important than your need to hold onto the past.

– Karen Salmansohn


Quit hanging on to the handrails . . . Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day.

– Melody Beattie


The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

– Dalai Lama


Life is short. So do the things which make you happy. And be with people who make you happy. Look for the good in every day – even if some days you have to look harder.

– Karen Salmansohn


Life’s Too Short Quotes and Sayings

Life is too short as we all know it to be. So why dare to spend it trying to live up to other people’s worldly expectations of you?

– Edmond Mbiaka


The purpose of everyone’s life is to live it, try something new, don’t be afraid of a newer and richer experience.

– Unknown


Life is a first impression. You get one shot at it. Make it everlasting.

– J.R.Rim

Life is a first impression. You get one shot at it. Make it everlasting.


I realized that I don’t have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect, and beautiful journey of my life.

– Kerry Washington


Life is short. Stop worrying.

– Unknown

Life is short. Stop worrying.


Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.

– Deepak Chopra


Life is too short to be reading quotes about life being too short. Stop reading and go live your life!

– Kevin Ngo


If you’re with someone who makes you happy in your personal life, then you’re happy with where you’re at.

– Diane Kruger


Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about the ones who don’t. Believe things happen for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.

– Unknown


I’m at a point in my life where I just want my family happy, my health good, my mind right and no drama.

– Unknown


You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

– Paulo Coelho


Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it.

Mother Teresa

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Every life is precious to God. God created every one of us. He gave us a soul, and that soul will live as long as God lives.

– Franklin Graham


We only have one life and one body to care of, and we better do it right. You never know what tomorrow may bring and so we better live this life the best we can and be grateful for everything we have.

– Novak Djokovic


Let’s not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember ‘Life is too short to be little.’

Dale Carnegie


Life is way too short to continue thinking you’re not worthy or good enough. Regardless of what others have told you, you are enough and are worthy of love and belonging.

– Kevin Ngo


Life is very short quotes

A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do.

– Osho


Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.

– Aga Khan III


Forgive Quickly. Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that made you smile.

– Audrey Hepburn


Make content that makes you happy. Do whatever you want. Don’t run after expensive things. Good content and subject will get you, viewers.

– Bhuvan Bam


Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.

– Henri-Frederic Amiel


Don’t be afraid to make mistakes. But if you do, make new ones. Life is too short to make the wrong choice twice.

– Joyce Rachelle


I have no time to battle egos and small minds.

– Unknown


Love who you want to love. Life is short. Nobody’s going to hate you for it.

– Shane Dawson


Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first.

Helen Keller


If you’re always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you’re in? Slow down and enjoy the moment you’re in and live your life to the fullest.

– Nanette Mathews


Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

– Melody Beattie


Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So, love the people who treat you right, forgive the ones who don’t and believe that everything happens for a reason.

– Dr. Suess


Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life.

– Michael Leboeuf


Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

– George Bernard Shaw

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


Life is short, and it is here to be lived.

– Kate Winslet

Life is short, and it is here to be lived. - Kate Winslet


Follow your inner true self – and not the crowd.

– Unknown


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I don’t have a bad relationship. I’m 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is… you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside.

– Jean Claude Van Damme


Life goes on… Whether you choose to move on and take a chance in the unknown. Or stay behind, locked in the past, thinking of what could’ve been.

– Unknown


Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

– Orhan Pamuk

Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it. - Orhan Pamuk


Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

– Eddie Cantor


If you want something, don’t wish for it. Life is too short to wait.

– Stephen Hines

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


As I get older I’ve stopped doing things which don’t feel right. I no longer wear shoes which hurt and feel uncomfortable. And I no longer spend time with people who make me feel bad.

– Karen Salmansohn


Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

– Wayne Dyer

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


Step with great care and tact, and remember that life’s a great balancing act.

– Dr. Suess


I’ve never seen any life transformation that didn’t begin with the person in question getting tire of their own bullshit.

– Elizabeth Gilbert


No matter what happens, life is too short to be anything but happy. Live fully. Have fun. Love lots. Learn lots. Take chances. Let go. Face forward. Don’t let people bring you down.

– Karen Salmansohn


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 Benet


Don’t wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That’s what you do when life is short.

– Paul Graham


You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you’ve lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.

– Meryl Streep


Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realize how important it is to use the time I have.

– Viggo Mortensen


Enjoy some quiet time before you rush into the world.

– Unknown

Enjoy some quiet time before you rush into the world.


Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now!

– Pope Paul VI


Quotes for Life Is Short

Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

– Robert Breault


I think it’s great to be flawed, and I like it this way. That’s the fun of life. You fall, get up, make mistakes, learn from them, be human and be you.

– Priyanka Chopra


Life is too short for unreality and you don’t owe anybody anything – especially your time, energy, and attention.

– Oli Anderson


You’re always one decision away from a totally different life.

– Unknown

You’re always one decision away from a totally different life.


Life is too short and happiness is too rare.

– A.R.Lucas

Life is too short and happiness is too rare. - A.R.Lucas


Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile.

Mark Twain


Every day, it’s important to ask and answer these questions: ‘What’s good in my life?’ and ‘What needs to be done?’

– Nathaniel Branden


Life is too short. Make the most of it. You don’t know when your last day is. Live the way you want to live.

– Unknown


Life is too short for long term grudges.

– Elon Musk


Live what you love.

– Unknown

Live what you love.


Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else ‘s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.

Steve Jobs


If it’s going to make you happy, go for it – life is short.

– Tiffany Darwish


Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.

– Charles Richards


Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.

Roy T. Bennett


Life is short. Be silly. Have fun. Love the people who treat you right. Forget the ones who don’t. Regret nothing.

– Karen Salmansohn


Our time in this life is limited. And how we respect that time will create a greater possibility for fulfillment.

– Ruben Papian


It’s a big world out there, it would be a shame not to experience it

It's a big world out there, it would be a shame not to experience it


Life’s Too Short Thoughts

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Benjamin Disraeli


You live longer once your realize that time spend being unhappy is time wasted.

– Unknown


Love yourself enough to give yourself a beautiful gift: a life you love!

– Unknown

Love yourself enough to give yourself a beautiful gift: a life you love!


Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

– Phillips Brooks


Choose to focus your time, energy, and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow into your happiest, strongest, wisest self.

– Karen Salmansohn


Life is short and if you’re looking for extension, you had best do well. Cause there’s good deeds and then there’s good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

– Ben Harper


Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

– William James

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. - William James


Live every day as if it were going to be your last; for one day you’re sure to be right.

– Harry Morant


Life is short it is up to you to make it sweet.

– Sarah Louise

Life is short it is up to you to make it sweet. - Sarah Louise


Life is too short to spend time with people who suck the happiness out of you.

– Unknown


Enjoy every moment because life is too short to fret over hardships.

– Himaja Sirigiri


You may delay, but time will not.

Benjamin Franklin

You may delay, but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin


Life is short. Cut out negativity, forget gossip, say goodbye to people who don’t care. Spend time with people who are always there.

– Unknown


Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet, cherish it.

– Unknown


Life is short, and truth works far and lives long: let us then speak the truth.

Arthur Schopenhauer


Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.

– Eric Davis


Simple life is a happy life.

– Unknown

Simple life is a happy life.


Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

– Mark Twain


Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.

– Peabo Bryson


Life is too short for fake butter or fake people.

– Karen Salmansohn


Like life is short, he said. Like you don’t know when it’s going to end. Like some things, left unsaid, can’t ever be said.

– Jim Butcher

You only have one life quotes

Give lifting that person your best shot, but don’t hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down.


There comes a time in your life when you have to let go of all the pointless drama and the people who create it and surround yourself with people who make you laugh so hard that you forget the bad and focus solely on the good.


I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.


Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.


Life is too short to be living somebody else’s dream.


Expect an early death – it will keep you busier.


Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.


Inspirational Quotes

Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.


Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness.


Life is too short; I don’t have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What’s the point? Go and do something else.

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