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"When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination."
"In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it."
"One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get - children. In the meantime, In between time..."
"After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others."
"To practice virtue is to selflessly offer assistance to others, giving without limitation one's time, abilities, and possessions in service, whenever and wherever needed, without prejudice concerning the identity of those in need."
"Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest intention? Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it."
"Time is a waste of money."
"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
"Time is generally the best doctor."
"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."
"Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession."
"Why do I ask for directions? Because I hate wasting time."
"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."
"No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time."
"Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing."
"But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are."
"We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice."
"Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans."
"Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry."
"The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending."
