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Brian Tracy Author, Speaker
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"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?'"

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Alan Watts Philosopher, Writer
Time

"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."

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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
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"If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one."

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Angelina Love Professional Wrestler
Time

"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."

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Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet
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"We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present."

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"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."

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