"Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time."
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"Time is a keyhole.... We sometimes bend and peer through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do--the wind that blows through the keyhole--is the breath of all the living universe."
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"Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time."
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"The living moment is everything."
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"It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it."
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"This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease."
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"Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away."
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"The more you think, the more time you have."
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"It takes a long time to become young."
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"Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste."
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"We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw."
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"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people."
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"Time is a game played beautifully by children."
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"The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor's edge of Now - to be so utterly, so completely present that no problem, no suffering, nothing that is not who you are in your essence, can survive in you. In the Now, in the absence of time, all your problems dissolve. Suffering needs time; it cannot survive in the Now."
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"We never remember days, only moments."
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"Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is."
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"Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all."
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"Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery."
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"We only get to play this game one time, one life."
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"The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause."
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