"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."
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"The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions."
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"The only difference between a RICH person and a POOR person is how they use their time."
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"My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time."
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"That's the funny thing about life. We're rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about how the future is going to play out and not nearly enough time admiring the precious perfection of the present."
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"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"
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"To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be."
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"All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust."
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"Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves."
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"It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting."
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"Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols."
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"There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure."
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"Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence neither speed up nor slow down add to nor diminish it is an imponderably valuable gift."
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"I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'"
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"These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism."
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"What is one man's life compared to the eternity of time and space? No more than a snowflake that glitters in the sun for a moment before melting into the flow of time."
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"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them."
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"How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets."
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"I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future."
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"Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means."
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