Time
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
I don't spend much time looking back at what happened. I do remember it, but I don't see any purpose of wanting to look back.
When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
I think of animals more as spirits that come and go. They enter our lives at a particular time and they leave at a particular time. The whole glorious history of animals with people is about joy and connection. It's about loving this creature and letting this creature love you.
He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
It's so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.
Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.
Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
France has lived a long time — eight or nine centuries — and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.
A bad system will beat a good person every time.
The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
Every time a meteor comes close to the earth, we all think about the end of the world — but our internal soundtrack doesn't turn off. We're also thinking about pizza or passing a slow tractor or making a turn, and for a magical instant, our lives seem to be in conversation with the stars.
Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us — a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.
My urge at Christmas time or Hanukkah-time or Kwanzaa-time is that people go to bookstores: that they walk around bookstores and look at the shelves. Go to look for authors that they've loved in the past and see what else those authors have written.
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
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