"A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since."

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"A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since."

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Life, Measurement, Change

"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

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Time, Day, Forget, Tomorrow, Spirit

"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

"Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."

Stephen King, American Author

Time, Regret, Today, Future

"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

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"It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun."

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"The best artists know what to leave out."

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"As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary."

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"If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?"

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"When all's said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it's not so much which road you take, as how you take it."

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"The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them."

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"Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning."

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"The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents."

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"I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile."

Heart, Smile, Want, World

"The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them."

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