"We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be."

Time, People

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"We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be."

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"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."

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"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."

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"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

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Marcel Proust, French Author

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"Today is a gift. Today is all I have. I be fully awake in today."

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"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists."

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