Quotes About A Long Life

#1. I don't envision a long life for myself. Like, I think my life will run out before my work does, y'know? I've designed it that way.

Townes Van Zandt

#2. Money gives you options,
Hard work gives you success,
Healthy relationships give you a long life,
But faith gives you everything!

Farshad Asl

#3. I think it's really important to remember that it's a long life, and it's a long career. In a perfect world, your career will be long. It does not begin and end with any one job. The point is to continue to have longevity in your career.

Laura Leighton

#4. I have learned that in a long life we all eventually play the part of the betrayed, and we all eventually play the part of the betrayer, and neither is pleasant because both roles involve pain, inflicting or absorbing it.

Robert Wagner

#5. It's a long life to spend doing something you're only meh about.

Nicola Yoon

#6. After a long life I have come to the conclusion that when all the Establishment is united it is always wrong.

Harold Macmillan

#7. You can die for your country or your people or your family, but for a god you should live fully and busily, every day of a long life.

Terry Pratchett

#8. I'm sixteen with what I hope will be a long life ahead, but I'm willing to give it up, to give anything to let her live, to let her make it through the night.

Travis Thrasher

#9. Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?

Joseph Heller

#10. We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived; it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within.

Seneca The Younger

#11. I have lived a long life, and I am proud that I spend the whole of my life in the service of my people. I am only proud of this and nothing else. I shall continue to serve until my last breath, and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.

Indira Gandhi

#12. It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

Cleveland Abbe

#13. There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.

Yoko Ono

#14. Tips for a long life - Keep Sweet, Keep Friendly, Keep Loving, if ye would ... keep Y O U N G

Edgar Cayce

#15. A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.

Chanakya

#16. He did not need a long life for us to measure. It was, rather, we who needed his life to be longer.

David M. O'Connell

#17. Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#18. One may do many things in a long life. I also played a great deal of tennis and brought up three children. There's time for all sorts of adventures.

Audrey Niffenegger

#19. Too often the spotlight that highlights our successes burns out quickly, while the spotlight that scrutinizes our failures is a long-life bulb.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#20. It is vanity to desire a long life, and to have little care for a good life.

Thomas A Kempis

#21. It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

Andy Rooney

#22. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.

Jim Elliot

#23. If you live a long life and get to the end of it without ever once having felt crushingly depressed, then you probably haven't been paying attention.

Duncan MacMillan

#24. How do you live a long life? "Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast."

Harry S. Truman

#25. Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is, a deep sense of meaning and of contribution to worthy projects and causes, particularly, your intergenerational family.

Stephen Covey

#26. I give you life in the memory of one who no longer lives. May you have a long life, and may you thank Matthew every day for it.

Moises Kaufman

#27. Jonahtan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short,and with these gone from his thought,he lived a long life indeed.

Richard Bach

#28. 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

#29. I've had a long life and a lot of relationships and not one of them do I wish - well, I take that back - there are a couple I could have done without.

Holland Taylor

#30. 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

#31. The secret to a long life is knowin' when it's time to go.

Michelle Shocked

#32. Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

Jeanne Calment

#33. It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

Margaret Oliphant

#34. A long life or a short life are of equal importance to God.

Jack Black

#35. I don't feel I'll live a long life. That's why I have to get what I can from every day.

Elvis Presley

#36. You really can't say enough about 'Blade Runner.' For that movie to have such a long life - you can't describe what a beautiful feeling that is. Initially, the movie was out of theaters in something like two weeks. But the people that wanted it back - the fans - they really saved it.

Rutger Hauer

#37. Everyone should pursue whatever is original in oneself. That's the way for a long life in music.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

#38. Just remember, it's a small business and a long life. You're going to see all these people again.

Steve Ross

#39. Those of us who receive the blessing of a long life will also need to understand and manage grief and loss many times throughout our lives. Grief will come again, and again. Loss is a requisite part of the aging process and the human experience.

Brent Green

#40. A long life is a life well spent.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#41. Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease.

Aesop

#42. One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike
and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

Albert Einstein

#43. My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him.

Henry Louis Gates

#44. I want a long life, measured not in days and years but the moments that we spent together

Sapan Saxena

#45. I repose in this quiet and secluded spot not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to race by charter rules, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life: EQUALITY OF MAN BEFORE HIS CREATOR.

Thaddeus Stevens

#46. We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business.

Charlie Munger

#47. What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?

Sigmund Freud

#48. I think that to have known one good, old man-one man, who, through the chances and mischances of a long life, has carried his heart in his hand, like a palm-branch, waving all discords into peace-helps our faith in God, in ourselves, and in each other more than many sermons

George William Curtis

#49. The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.

George Santayana

#50. Well, maybe it's true,' Clevinger conceded unwillingly in a subdued tone. 'Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?'
'I do,' Dunbar told him.
'Why?' Clevinger asked.
'What else is there?

Joseph Heller

#51. Man is a rational animal. So at least we have been told. Throughout a long life I have searched diligently for evidence in favor of this statement. So far, I have not had the good fortune to come across it.

Bertrand Russell

#52. The only way to live a long life is in a state of constant boredom.

Gerd De Ley

#53. Those words you want to say right now? Don't say them.' He smiled and cuffed my cheek with something close to real affection. 'And that, my friend, is the secret to living a long life'.

David Benioff

#54. I decided that it's either, you know, if I want to have children, have a family and - and live a long life, I've got to make some real, real serious changes.

Carnie Wilson

#55. A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

Walter Lippmann

#56. Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true; and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,
an illness given by the hand of man!

Victor Hugo

#57. The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.

Peter F. Hamilton

#58. This was the pleasure of a long life: the way some things worked themselves out.

Ann Patchett

#59. Life is short but donation of life could have a long life.

Debasish Mridha

#60. If you gave more frequent thought to your death than to a long life, you would unquestionably be more eager to amend your life.

Thomas A Kempis

#61. You hope for that with anything, but with a TV show, the writer and the actor being the right mix are more important than the actual writing of the pilot because you hope it's something that can have a long life.

Jake Kasdan

#62. Those who live a long life without realising their spiritual goals are as similar to the hygienic zombies walking on earth.

Vishal Chipkar

#63. In 1990, Howard Friedman and Leslie Martin, two psychologists at the University of California, Riverside, embarked on a research project within a research project, seeking answers to the question, 'What makes for a long life?'

Katie Hafner

#64. 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

#65. Respect isn't something you command through intimidation and intellectual bullying. It's something you build through a long life of treating people how you want to be treated

Lena Dunham

#66. I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened.

Jack Canfield

#67. It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.

Thomas A Kempis

#68. It's a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds.

Cheryl Strayed

#69. There is much that I remember but which is painful to dwell on. I see no need to write about these things. They are over and must be accepted, made sense of and forgiven, afforded no more than their proper place in a long life in which I have always known that happiness is a gift, not a right.

P.D. James

#70. What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!

Aristophanes

#71. There is one difference between a long life & a great dinner; in the dinner, the sweet things come last.

Audrey Hepburn

#72. Forget living a long life cause I don't see that happening with me living a life of misery, neglect, and pain. So I just want to die happy.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#73. So now do not worry, take what you have, and do your work and you will have a long life and a very merry one.

Ernest Hemingway,

#74. It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

Seneca The Younger

#75. Remembering God's work in the past has a sustaining and renewing effect during times of spiritual drought. Memory and worship are thus keys to a long life of spiritual formation. Try

Richard J. Foster

#76. 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

#77. If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

Hans Selye

#78. She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil.

Agatha Christie

#79. There was no recovery from what had happened. That would take decades; it would take a long life.

Markus Zusak

#80. A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

Benjamin Franklin

#81. It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.

Bryant H. McGill

#82. Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

Samuel Johnson

#83. Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.

Martha Beck

#84. It's meaningless to live a long life if you think only about yourself, and give no thought to caring about others.

Thomas A Kempis

#85. In a long life there are thirty or thirty-five thousand days to be got through, but only a few dozen that really matter, Big Days when Something Momentous Happens. The rest - the vast majority, tens of thousands of days - are unremarkable, repetitive, even monotonous.

William Landay

#86. Better a long life as a squire than a shore one as a soiled knight.

George R R Martin

#87. We're supposed to lose our friends to time, at an age when we're ready to agree to the terms of having lived a long life. Not now.

John Mayer

#88. The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor.

Luise Rainer

#89. After a long day, folk rest at night. After a long summer, folk play games and sit about in the winter. After a long life folk sit about the fire and stay warm, for the chill of death is upon them, and even the thickest bearskin can't keep off the shivering.

Jane Smiley

#90. Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased.

Mark Twain

#91. My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life.

Nick Cassavetes

#92. As a publisher what you are trying to build is a long life for a book, to help it find its readers in many different ways, whether or not it made this list or got that review, etc. I'm sure some of that thinking has been useful to me as a writer as well.

Danielle Dutton

#93. The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#94. Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection to Reason.

Benjamin Franklin

#95. The doctors who have examined me say I am healthy enough for a long life, so don't have any illusions that I'll soon leave this world.

Tomas Borge

#96. And whenever the prime concern in life is money-making, then you have trickery and brutality and wrong. I'm saying that, not from what I have heard, but from what I have observed in a long life among our own folk.

Neil M. Gunn

#97. How empty life is and without meaning. - We bury a man, we follow him to the grave, we throw three spades of earth on him, we ride out in a coach, we ride home in a coach, we take comfort in the thought that a long life awaits us. But how long is threescore years and ten? Why not finish it at once?

Soren Kierkegaard

#98. Life was a road, and if departed from at a tangent, the longer for it. And a long road was a long life - a case where to travel was better than to arrive, the point of arrival being, after all, always the same: death.

Andrey Kurkov

#99. I've fallen in love maybe five times in my life. But it's a long life. I do get crushes. Whether it's men or women or babies.

Joan Collins

#100. I was imagining a long life of being a stone cold loser. Then I got a job, which was really nice, then I got a great agent, a great manager, which was really nice. I was doing a lot of set ups, and, you know, I got to start working in L.A.

Mackenzie Davis