Have regular hours for work & play; make each day both useful & pleasant and prove you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
- Topic: Goals, Life, Purpose, Time
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What we do now echoes in eternity.
› Marcus Aurelius
Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.
› Benjamin Hardy
Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.
› Mark Twain
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
› Marcus Aurelius
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
› Robert Collier
The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
› Isaac Newton
If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.
› Lewis Carroll
To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl of be found in the dark folds of life.
› Victor Hugo
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
› Buddha
Some people die at age 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.
› Benjamin Franklin
The world is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel.
› Horace
The only way to live, is knowing you’re going to die. If you're afraid to die, you'll never be able to live.
› James Baldwin
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
› Pearl S. Buck
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
› Winston Churchill
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
› Andrew Carnegie
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
› Eckhart Tolle
Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or good or joy worth having.
› C. S. Lewis
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
› Kahlil Gibran
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
› Aristotle
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
› Hermann Hesse
It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
› Malala Yousafzai
Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.
› Aldous Huxley
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.
› Leo Tolstoy
The past is memory. The future is imagination. All that exists is now.
› Buddha
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.
› Oliver Goldsmith
Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
› Buddha
There is only one time that is important—now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.
› Leo Tolstoy
Now is the accepted time.
› 1 Corinthians 6:2
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
› Niccolo Machiavelli
Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.
› Mark Twain
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
› Chinese Proverb
