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"Have you noticed,' she asked him, 'how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?"
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"If you don't monitor your life, you will regret it. If you don't measure your life, you will regret it."
"Always ask yourself what you have achieved within a given time and the product of your life."
"Neglect is a major reason for some of the most painful experiences we suffer in life."
"Society has got a lot of activities and attractions to steal your time and to make you think less about your diminishing life."
"It's a pity that majority of people on earth are either not measuring their lives at all or are measuring their lives by just one product a year."
"The question "who am I" is the first question that every person should ask himself."
"The principles you pursue becomes a worth when it reflects."
"That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love."
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"Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments."
"Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the other. On the whole, though, I think I would prefer color to its absence. But then black does add depth and texture to color. Perhaps certain shades of gray are necessary to a complete palette. Even unrelieved black. Ah, a deep philosophical question. Is black necessary to life, even a happy life? Could we ever be happy if we did not at least occasionally experience misery?"
"Either way, he was always staring into a bottomless pit, or into a whirlpool that forever sucked him inexorably inward to its vortex."
"People do understand the language of the heart, you know, even if the head does not always comprehend it."
"I believe, he said gently, 'we all have a perfect right to make ourselves unhappy if that is what we freely choose. But I am not sure we have the right to allow our own unhappiness to cause someone else's. The trouble with life sometimes is that we are all in it together."
"The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love."
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