"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."

Time, People, Flowers, Joy

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"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."

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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Time, Past, Change, Possibility, Hope

"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Life, Bubble, Ocean

"Wouldn't it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time to rearrange things in order to make your future better? You can. If you can foresee regret, you can mind-travel to the future. If you can train yourself to mind-travel effectively, you can intentionally affect your future by doing something about it today."

Richie Norton, American Author

Time, Regret, Future, Action

"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Time, Life, Haste, Housekeeping

"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Time, God, Idea, Invention

"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Time, Work, Process, Patience

"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Time, Eternity

"The value of time is immeasurable."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Time, Immeasurable, Worth, Life

"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Time, Moment, World, Stillness

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"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out."

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"Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck."

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"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."

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"The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all."

Change, Love, Marriage, People

"Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes."

Love, Eyes, World

"No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base."

Love, Worth

"Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference."

Morality, Indifference, Passion

"The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe."

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"All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous."

Art, Struggle

"Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods."

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