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"The secret to happiness is happiness itself. Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other, the wonder of our breathing. We don't have to travel anywhere else to do so. We can be in touch with these things right now."
"It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date."
"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."
"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains."
"If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all the hearts to behold the miraculous change."
"It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise."
"The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't."
"Time is everything. Anything you want, anything you accomplish - pleasure, success, fortune - is measured in time."
"Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well."
"As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden,- "Speech is silvern, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity."
"Time to write and sing, to laugh, to listen, to discover, to cry, to love music."
"A loafer always has the correct time."
"It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time."
"In the past our glorious visions of the future - heaven, paradise, nirvana - were thought to happen after death. The newer thought is that we do not have to die to get there. We are not speaking here of life after death in some mythical heaven, but life more abundant in real time in history. We are speaking of the next stage of our social evolution."
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."
"Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time."
"The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time."
"The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything."
"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy."
"My father worked for the same firm for 12 years. They fired him and replaced him with a tiny gadget that does everything my father does, only much better. The depressing thing is my mother ran out and bought one"
