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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
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