{"quotes":[{"text":"Why just work and live for a happy retirement? Why not work and live for a happy life?","author":"Jonathan Anthony Burkett","tags":["2016","achieve","don-t-take-anything-for-granted","enjoy-life","goals","learning-from-mistakes","lessons","life","life-is-short","succeed"],"id":7657,"author_id":"Jonathan+Anthony+Burkett"},{"text":"It occurred to Anita that hatred and dislike and even indifference were all luxuries, born of the mistaken belief that anything could last forever.","author":"Tommy Wallach","tags":["hatred","life-is-short"],"id":73190,"author_id":"Tommy+Wallach"},{"text":"The sad truth is, John and I and the kids only took Route 66 once on our trips to Disneyland. Our family, like the rest of America, succumbed to the lure of faster highways, more direct routes, higher speed limits. We forgot about taking the slow way. It makes you wonder if something inside us knows that our lives are going to pass faster than we could ever realize. So we run around like chickens about to lose our heads. Which makes our little two- or three-week vacations with our families more important than ever... As for the time that elapsed between those vacations, that’s another thing altogether. It seems to have all passed breathlessly, like some extended whisper of days, months, years, decades. (pp.39-40).","author":"Michael Zadoorian","tags":["life","life-is-short","route-66","slow-down","time","time-passing"],"id":95335,"author_id":"Michael+Zadoorian"},{"text":"In this week I see such a picture of life, hard and joyful pressed up together and sleeping in the same bed. They come knit together. The lines of pain run through the joy and remind us to go all in, because life is short. The joy edges the pain and gives us a reason to rise.","author":"Anna White","tags":["darkness","depression","go-all-in","grief","healing","inspirational","joy","life-is-short","life","loss","memoir","pain","persevere","recovery","rise-again"],"id":103468,"author_id":"Anna+White"},{"text":"The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism—an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.","author":"Kathryn Schulz","tags":["ambivalence","attention","ignorance","indifference","life-is-short","oblivion","pulitzer-prize","the-new-yorker","the-world"],"id":116932,"author_id":"Kathryn+Schulz"},{"text":"One clear moment, one of trance One missed step, one perfect dance One missed shot, one and only chance Life is all...But one fleeting glance.","author":"Sanober Khan","tags":["dance","fleeting","glance","glimpse","indian-","life-and-living","life-is-short","life","moments","poems","poetry","poetry","trance"],"id":135248,"author_id":"Sanober+Khan"},{"text":"Life is short. Write naked.","author":"A.D. Posey","tags":["ad-posey","inspirational","life-is-short","naked","stories","story","storytellers","storytelling","write","writers","writing","writing"],"id":184582,"author_id":"A.D.+Posey"},{"text":"Seeing pictures of other places around the world makes me feel more important. Reminds me, even though life is short, there's so much to do.","author":"Travis J. Dahnke","tags":["be","do","existence","important","life-is-short","pictures","travel","world"],"id":202132,"author_id":"Travis+J.+Dahnke"},{"text":"At some point your candle will go out, so make use of the light.","author":"Shaun Hick","tags":["candle","life","life-is-short","light","make-hay","make-hay-while-the-sun-shines","motivation","motivational","quote","quotes","about-life","on-life","to-live-by","time"],"id":245056,"author_id":"Shaun+Hick"},{"text":"Life is too short not to start something stupid.","author":"Richie Norton","tags":["inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","intentional-living","life","life-is-short","short","start","stupid","stupidity"],"id":257993,"author_id":"Richie+Norton"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}