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The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. - Albert Einstein

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time. - Simon Sinek

“In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking. - John Maynard Keynes

“If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.”
― Nora Roberts

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself. - Charlotte Bronte

“I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”
― Chaim Potok, The Chosen

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us. - Alan Watts

"When the foundation becomes weak there is nothing safe to build upon." A Burnham

“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

There's nothing wrong with a little agitation for what's right or what's fair. - John Lewis

“What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”
― Nora Ephron

To die will be an awfully big adventure. - James M. Barrie

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― Maxim Gorky

We have fear as soon as we are born, we are born into a state of physical helplessness. - Martha Nussbaum

Wise men speak because they have something to say, Fools because they have to say something. ~Plato

“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?”
― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

We are all of us failures - at least, the best of us are. - James M. Barrie

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
― John Muir

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit. - Publilius Syrus

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.”
― Steve Jobs

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name. - A. A. Milne

“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.”
― Philip Pullman

A liar is always lavish of oaths. - Pierre Corneille