Thought for today …:

Ars longa, vita brevis is part of an aphorism by Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, usually truncated to its first two statements, art is long, life is short. (See also List of Latin phrases.)

The full text in Latin is:

Ars longa,
vita brevis,
occasio praeceps,
experimentum periculosum,
iudicium difficile.

The full text is often rendered in English as:

“Life is short, [the] art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.”

Also:

“Life is short, art [of medicine] is long; the crisis fleeting; experience perilous, and decisions difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.”

(from Aphorism, section I, no. 1)

[Wikipedia]