“Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.”

— Paulo Coelho, book The Devil and Miss Prym

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

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Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947

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“Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.”

Natalie Babbitt book Tuck Everlasting

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“You've no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it's over in a flash, that they do this thing, or that thing, and then die, but I can assure you they are quite wrong.”

Nancy Mitford (1904–1973) British writer

Source: Love in a Cold Climate and Other Novels

“You can achieve anything in life. It just depends on how desperate you are to achieve it.”

Milkha Singh (1935) Indian track and field athlete

The Race of My Life: An Autobiography Milkha Singh (2013)

“However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Where there's life, there's hope.”

Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author

“Life can be a challenge. Life can seem impossible. It's never easy when there's so much on the line.”

Herman Cain (1945) American writer, businessman and activist

As quoted in The Daily Beast http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/12/03/cain-quotes-pok-mon-movie-in-final-speech.html (2011). <br class="br">Variant: Life can be a challenge. Life can seem impossible. It's never easy when there's so much on the line.

“How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.”

Graham Swift Tomorrow

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