As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
“The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.”
“Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.”
“Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant.”
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”