✦⋆· said,"Be even more stingy with your life than with your dirham and your dinar [i.e. your money]."

● "Remain mostly in the state of purity and Allah will increase your lifespan."

● "Whoever would like his sustenance to be amplified and his destined end to be postponed should maintain relations with his kin."

● "On the Day of Resurrection, it will be announced, "Where are the sixty year olds?" for this is the age referring to which Allah, most High, has said, “Did we not give you a life long enough that one who is heedful might take admonition."

✦⋆· said in her intimate supplication, "O Allah, by Your knowledge of the unseen, and Your power over creation, keep me alive so long as You know that life is good for me, and cause me to die when death is good for me."

✦⋆· "Verily your lifespan is the total number of your breaths, and there is a watcher over them counting them."

● "Verily nobody will receive a single extra day to his lifespan except that another day will be taken from him from his end."

● "Your yesterday has passed on, your tomorrow is uncertain, and your today is to be taken advantage of."

● "How fast the hours in a day go by, and how fast the days in a month, and how fast the months in a year, and how fast the years in a lifetime!"

● "O people! [take advantage of] Now! Now before regret sets in, and before "anyone should say, "Alas for my negligence in the vicinage of Allah!"[ Quran 39:56].

● "Allah has mercy on the man who knows that his breaths are but his steps towards his end, so he hastens to perform good deeds and cuts short his high hopes."

● "Be cautious of wasting away your lives in that which will not last for you, for whatever has passed of them never returns."

● "Verily your lifetime is the ransom for your eternal prosperity if you spend it in the obedience of your Lord."

● "The age up to which Allah accepts the excuse of His servants for certain things is sixty years."

● "So alas for every negligent one that his age be a proof against him, and that the days of his life should lead him to perdition!"

● "Grief is half of old age."

✦⋆· said in his supplication for noble moral traits, "And let me live so long as my life is spent in Your obedience, but when my life becomes a breeding ground for Shaytan, then take me to You."

✦⋆· "When a man reaches forty years of age, it is said to him, ‘Be on your guard, for now you have no excuse’ , and the forty-year old man is no longer as worthy of being excused as the twenty-year old man."

● "Command our followers to visit the grave of al-Hussain b. Ali (as), for verily going there increases sustenance, extends one’s life, and repels evil forces."

✦⋆· "He who has good intentions is given an increase in lifespan."

● "He who excels in his good treatment of his family is given an increase in his lifespan."

● "If you would like Allah to increase your lifespan then please your parents."