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A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging long life quotes, long life sayings, and long life proverbs.
Best Long Life Quotes
- “You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that you have to live each day like it’s your last. Bullshit. Life is long. You’re probably not gonna get hit by a bus. And you’re gonna have to live with the choices you make for the next fifty years.” ~ Chris Rock
- “A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “The secret of health, happiness, and long life: If you simply learn how to accept and express love, you will live longer…be happier…grow healthier. For love is a powerful force.” ~ Alfred Armand Montapert , Live long life quotes
- “The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.” ~ Henry L. Stimson
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“If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions .” ~ Hans Selye
- “May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein
- “Given that we desire long life, should we not take eternal life into account? If we long for a kingdom which, however enduring, has an end, and glory and joy which, great as they are, will fade, and wealth that will perish with this present life, and we labour for the sake of such things; ought we not to seek the kingdom, glory, joy and riches which, as well as being all-surpassing, are unfading and endless, and ought we not to endure a little constraint in order to inherit it?” ~ Gregory Palamas
- “It is not length of life, but depth of life.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they’re always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.” ~ Norman Rockwell
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“A light heart lives long.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Everyone desires long life, not one old age.” ~ Jonathan Swift
- “The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.” ~ Philip Sidney
- “I do know without fear of contradiction what the definition of life is and it is 12 words long. ‘Life is defined by how much you improve the lives of others.'” ~ Keith Olbermann
- “Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause, there’s the respect, That makes calamity of so long life” ~ William Shakespeare
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“There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
- “You’ll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.” ~ Woody Allen
- “If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.” ~ Kristin Hannah
- “Our life contains a thousand springs,
And dies if one be gone.
Strange! that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long.” ~ Isaac Watts - “Why hope to live a long life if we’re only going to fill it with self-absorption, body maintenance and image repair? When we die, do we want people to exclaim ‘She looked ten years younger,’ or do we want them to say ‘She lived a great life’?” ~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “There were no “unemployed” in the impoverished Polish countryside before the Second World War. Not a single unemployed. Every child that was born in the peasant family had his room at the table and his job in the field, stable or pigsty… If there was not enough food, everybody got less. If food was plentiful, everybody ate better. In such a setting, we may say, the problem of security couldn’t even arise… One was born with life-long rights; the only thing that one could not do was to change them. A setting good on the side of security, though bad on the side of freedom.” ~ Zygmunt Bauman
- “The word gap leads to an achievement gap and has life-long consequences” ~ Hillary Clinton
- “It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.” ~ Thomas a Kempis
- “It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.” ~ Thomas a Kempis
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“Long life will sometimes obscure the star of fame.” ~ Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
- “We live in a society where we don’t want to commit to another person for life. We do at the moment that we marry, but less and less people marry. We marry later, we marry less. On some level of the unconscious, we know there is less of a chance that a marriage will be life-long.” ~ Marilyn Yalom
- “It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.” ~ Thomas a Kempis
- “I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.” ~ Jim Elliot
- “Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long after they have departed.” ~ Jim Rohn
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“The art is long, life is short” ~ Hippocrates
- “You will get something wrong today, and tomorrow, and every day of your life. So will I, and everybody you know. You don’t have a choice about being wrong sometimes: mistakes will be your life-long companion. But you do have a choice about whether to approach your error in terror so you suppress, ignore and repeat it — or to make it your honest, open ally in trying to get to the truth.” ~ Johann Hari
- “In the future, will our technologies help stabilise or planet and population, leading to a very long lifetime for us? Or will we destroy our world and its inhabitants, after only a brief appearance on the cosmic stage?” ~ Jill Tarter
- “Security is mostly a superstition. It 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 outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” ~ Helen Keller
- “The dog [in Pavlov’s experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell. But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system. An experience associated only once with a bereavement, an accident, or a battle, may become the center of a permanent phobia or complex, not in the least dependent on a recurrence of the original shock.” ~ Gordon Allport
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“What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!” ~ Aristophanes
- “O excellent! I love long life better than figs.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.” ~ Grace Paley
- “He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it.” ~ Max Stirner
- “Harvey was not content merely to gather knowledge; he digested and arranged it under the guidance of the faculties which compare and reason. … Harvey appears to have possessed, in a remarkable degree, the power of persuading and conciliating those with whom he came in contact. In the whole course of his long life we hear nothing either of personal enemies or personal enmities … one of the great men whom God, in virtue of his eternal laws, bids to appear on earth from time to time to enlighten, and to ennoble mankind.” ~ William Harvey
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“Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.” ~ Ben Jonson
- “I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all life long.” ~ Elizabeth Blackwell
- “I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren’t. I’ve opted for the road of happiness and long life.” ~ Ethan Suplee
- “Shall I compare thee to a summer day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate… When in eternal lines to time thou growst So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.” ~ William Shakespeare
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“As for wrinkles–Pshaw! Why shouldn’t we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “Veganism gives us all the opportunity to say what we “stand for” in life- the ideal of healthy, humane living. Add decades to your life, with a clear conscience as a bonus.” ~ Donald Watson
- “The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable… Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.” ~ James Joseph Sylvester
- “So near along life’s stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
- “Parents, do you wish to see your children happy? Take care, then, that you train them to obey when they are spoken to, -to do as they are bid…. Teach them to obey while young, or else they will be fretting against God all their lives long, and wear themselves out with the vain idea of being independent of His control.” ~ J. C. Ryle , Long life quotes for parents
- “Surely you’re not saying that God had to choose between long life and intelligence for human beings! It’s there in your own Bible, Carlotta. Two trees – knowledge and life. You eat of the tree of knowledge and you will surely die. You eat of the tree of life and you remain a child in the garden forever, undying.” ~ Orson Scott Card
- “A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But after worship, your prayers are for health, long life, wealth, and for the damsels and slaves of the Paradise. Ponder! Did you ever pray to God, ‘O’ God, I desire from Thee nothing but Thee’?” ~ Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi , Pray for long life quotes
- “Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.” ~ Michel de Montaigne
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“Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our virtue!” ~ Thomas a Kempis
- “I get my drive and determination from just winning and playing tennis. I know if I don’t work, I won’t get rewarded. It was a life long dream to win a Grand Slam so when I was able to do that it felt so good and I wanted to do it again. It’s not that hard to stay motivated.” ~ Samantha Stosur
- “Pride is a deeply rooted ailment of the soul. The penalty is misery; the remedy lies in the sincere, life-long cultivation of humility, which means true self-evaluation and a proper perspective toward past, present and future.” ~ Robert Gordis
- “I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “I’ve been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I’ve had the privilege of working with the cinema’s greatest masters.” ~ Dino De Laurentiis\
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“There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn’t play sports – for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.” ~ Chris Hardwick
- “Even for charity I always give priority to education because I always teach young people – knowledge is your real companion, your life long companion, not fortune. Fortune can disappear.” ~ Stanley Ho
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“It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.” ~ Seneca the Younger
- “I duly acknowledge that I have gone through a long life, with fewer circumstances of affliction than are the lot of most men. Uninterrupted health, a competence for every reasonable want, usefulness to my fellow-citizens, a good portion of their esteem, no complaint against the world which has sufficiently honored me, and above all, a family which has blessed me by their affections, and never by their conduct given me a moment’s pain.” ~ Thomas Jefferson , Long life quotes blessing
- “We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap and poison, the statesman with pen, the most of us with machines, votes, and dollars. A measure of success in this is all well enough, and perhaps is a requisite to objective thinking, but too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run. Perhaps this is behind Thoreau’s dictum: In wilderness is the salvation of the world. Perhaps this is the hidden meaning in the howl of the wolf, long known among mountains, but seldom perceived among men.” ~ Aldo Leopold
