Time gone by November 1, 2006
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Can you believe it’s November already? This year is passing by in supersonic speed it seems. Does that mean, I am enjoying life so much that I can’t keep track of the time? If so then that’s a really good sign of progress in my life. Life your life to the max, enjoy every thing you do, else it’s of no use.
Some great quotes on Time:
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
–Annie Dillard
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
–C. S. Lewis
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
–Emily Dickinson
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
–Will Rogers
All quotes from WisdomQuotes.com
To really live… August 31, 2006
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Purpose of life August 31, 2006
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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882
Value of words August 31, 2006
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The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
–Hubert H Humphrey
An education’s true worth August 29, 2006
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An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
–Anatole France (1844-1924)
Really simple, right? August 29, 2006
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How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we’re really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
From Hold That Thought by Sarah Ban Breathnach (Warner Books)
The fine print August 29, 2006
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In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
–Mortimer Adler; American philosopher and educator
Waiting for perfection August 29, 2006
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Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.
—Napoleon Hill, American author 1883-1970
