They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
- Topic: Life, Time
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Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.
Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.
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.
You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
If I had to define life in a word, it would be: Life is creation.
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.
I think it’s important to realize that you can miss something, but not want it back.
The past is memory. The future is imagination. All that exists is now.
If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present...gratefully.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God’s children.
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.