It is none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Time is the least thing we have of.
- Topic: Life, Time
- Location: Glacier National Park, Lake McDonald
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows.
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
I drink to make other people more interesting.
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
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At the end of the day, we can endure more than we think we can.
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
it takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, now that's the real test.
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we made today.
Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.
The past is memory. The future is imagination. All that exists is now.
Time makes more converts than reason.
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you won't do anything with it.