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"Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour."
"She's the original good time who was had by all."
"Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'"
"We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so brief that we cannot even think about it before it has gone. From another point of view, this moment is always here, since we know no other moment than the present moment. It is always dying, always becoming past more rapidly than imagination can conceive. Yet at the same time it is always being born, always new, emerging just as rapidly from that complete unknown we call the future. Thinking about it almost makes you breathless."
"It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about."
"If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one."
"The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication."
"If we didn't spend so much time reacting to things, we would spend less time feeling bothered. We would be able to relax in our lives the way our mind relaxes in meditation."
"One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be."
"Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre."
"Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop."
"Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence."
"We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present."
"The inmost in due time becomes the outmost."
"The test of our religion is whether it fits us to meet emergencies. A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis."
"It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning."
"Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade."
"Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes."
"Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you."