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"Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto."
"It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone."
"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."
"Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind."
"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."
"Lost time is never found again."
"Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves."
"Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times."
"I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then."
"Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time."
"We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future."
"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity."
"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."
"The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally - not a 20 percent traitor."
"It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one."
"Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time."
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."
"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
"The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school."
