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The secret of longevity ... Is to keep breathing!
The Physics of Immortality,
Sometimes a person's life is longer than their years.
The length of your life doesn't guarantee a better quality of life.
We are not proponents of long life. We are proponents of joyful life, and when you find yourself in joy, the longevity usually follows. We do not count the success of a life by its length; we count it by its joy. - ABRAHAM
950 years. After the flood, the lifespan
Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.
Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!
Life, when is spent well, is long.
The key to longevity: keep breathing.
The happy problem of our time - longer life.
We live longer
but less precisely
and in shorter sentences.
The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.
The simple record of three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and to soften mankind, than all the (investigations) disquisitions of philosophers and than all the exhortations of moralists.
the only thing that lasts a whole lifetime is life itself, everything else is inevitably precarious, unstable, transient
I'm just one of the lucky people. I have no other reason for my longevity.
What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.
Not aging is not the same as living
Longevity has never bothered me at all, I have studied longevity for years.
Each life makes its own imitation of immortality.
A life of short duration ... could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.
To sustain longevity, you have to evolve.
Life is as long as you live it.
The will to live cannot be overestimated as a stimulant to longevity.
Length of years is no proper test of length of life. A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it and what he feels in it.
Life is stretching to achieve goals, and exploring new things, and struggling to overcome obstacles. Life is not just breathing in and out. I think immortality would make all these things that add up to our lives hollow and meaningless.
Immortality affords you the opportunity to witness history in the making. Humanity's triumphs and its cruelties, both. It is both a high price to pay and a priceless gift, to carry the weight of that knowledge.
With decrepitude, longevity has overshot the mark.
To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. One who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles on a stationary bicycle has not circled the globe. He or she has only garnered weariness.
Eternity: the length of a life.
The longest life is no more than a sliver of light between two boundless ribbons of dark, like the light you see through the chinks of a log cabin at sunrise. And that last ribbon of dark, the one that comes after you are gone, that one goes on until the end of time.
All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.
It's not how long a man lives, but how well he uses the time allotted him.
The usefulness of living lies not in duration but in what you make of it. Some have lived long and lived little. See to it while you are still here. Whether you have lived enough depends not on a count of years but on your will.
Nothing lives long
Only the earth and mountains
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.
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!
years, making it the most durable
Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.
What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well half an hour?
The key to longevity is the purity of one's heart.
84. In life, you are measured not by longevity but by contribution and impact
for immortality is but ubiquity in time
Long life wore away everything that was not essential.
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.
Having a life expectancy is just part of being self-entitled
It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
Life is an enduring endeavour.
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
The longest lives are short; our work lasts longer.
Life well spent is long.
Just because you live longer doesn't necessarily give you a greater edge in quality.
With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the present moment the smallest permanent symptom or indication of increasing prolongation.
For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.
What ages you faster, suffering or experience?
One consequence of biological aging is that one's lifetime eventually runs out.
Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents.
It matters not how long you live, but how well.
This is not about the mere extension of life along a horizontal plane, but about the deepening of life along a vertical plane. Mere longevity cannot render life meaningful any more than brevity has the power to make it meaningless.
When you extend life span, that's really something. That's hard to do.
Immortal life is something to be earned, By slow self-conquest, comradeship with Pain, And patient seeking after higher truths.
When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find our comfort where so many before us have found it, in the ancient words.
Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.
The end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest.
Things last so much longer than people.
The Timeline of a Life being Long or Short, is Computed on the Benchmark of How You Live It ...
Immortality gets very, very boring. You'd be surprised at how interesting the small mundanities of life can seem after a few millennia.
Until death it is all life
Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is.
Some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80. It's not the time that counts, it's the person
It matters not how long we live but how.
Immortality is a meaningless word unless invulnerability goes with it.
We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
The only true immortality lies in one's children.
[Letter to his friend, Richard Heuberger]
Immortality is overrated, living for an eternity would get really old.
Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.
Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality.
Those who die without being forgotten get longevity.
Measure your life not by its duration, but by its contribution.
You may not have the control to lengthen your life, but you can do much to deepen it.
A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.
What's the use in prolonging life if you don't do anything with it?
Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.
The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.
There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care.
Only youth has a taste of immortality.
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
The physical life of an individual person is limited, but the life of the masses united as an independent social-political organism is immortal ... Only when an individual becomes a member of this community can he acquire the immortal social-political life.
The possibilities for immortality are endless. Here you sit reading these words, a butterfly resting on a flower!
The secret to living long is to have something to live for.
What is human is immortal!
It's really not a question of how long you have on this earth; it's about what you do with it.
There are two things that grant a bit of immortality: books and children
I can't say that I deserve longlife; I don't. I've just been around long enough. They say, "My God, she's still here."
Life isn't about living the longest; it's about living the most.