"Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting."
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"Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration."
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"Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow."
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"Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead."
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"Have you ever noticed a tree standing naked against the sky, How beautiful it is? All its branches are outlined, and in its nakedness There is a poem, there is a song. Every leaf is gone and it is waiting for the spring. When the spring comes, it again fills the tree with The music of many leaves, Which in due season fall and are blown away. And this is the way of life."
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"A day spent wasting time, that you enjoyed, is not time wasted."
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"Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time."
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"Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love."
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
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"What is an adult? A child blown up by age."
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"Punctuality is the thief of time"
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"On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."
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"Never begin the day until it is finished on paper."
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"Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time."
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"Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why."
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"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."
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"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time."
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"One time a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign. He said, "Didn't you see the stop sign?" I said, "Yeah, but I don't believe everything I read""
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"For nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress."
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"Flow in the living moment. — We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you’ll be flexible to change with the ever changing. Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo."
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