"The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on the future
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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around -- the music and the ideas."

Dylan, Bob on twentieth century   

"Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows."

Richter, Jean Paul on friends and friendship   

"We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal, of masking for a while that dread of the meaningless which was man's fate."

Didion, Joan on twentieth century   

"There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are."

Trungpa, Chogyam on courage   

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life
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"Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself."

Proverb, Chinese on action
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"Love is a better teacher than duty."

Einstein, Albert on love
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"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on time   

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"The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on knowledge
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"You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out. If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you."

Vereen, Ben on idleness   

"Our best history is still poetry."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on history and historians
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"If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck"

Hasselhoff, David on action
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"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within."

Gandhi, Mahatma on dictators and dictatorship
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"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."

Peart, Neil on choice
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"Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still."

Proverb, Chinese on progress
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"Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last."

Gourmont, Remy De on women
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"Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure."

Shakespeare, William on laughter   

"Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go."

Driscoll, Louise on art
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"One thing you can give and still keep is your word."

Unknown, Source on words   

"The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses."

Pindar on wisdom   

"Still waters run deep."

Proverb, English on silence
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"Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live."

Herzen, Alexander on life
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"Life is a long lesson in humility."

Barrie, Sir James M. on life
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"The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy."

Marden, Orison Swett on wisdom   

"It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it."

Marcia, Wieder on time   

"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."

Ruskin, John on music   

"Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians."

Bohn, H. G. on doctors
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"To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot."

Conrad, Joseph on language   

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"Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?"

Whitman, Walt on learning
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"Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being."

Chopra, Deepak on silence
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"The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb, for we have no word to speak about it."

Carlyle, Thomas on time
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"However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible."

Mumford, Lewis on technology   

"Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time."

Doisneau, Robert on luck
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"We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict."

Delacroix, Eugene on body
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"Tears are the silent language of grief."

Voltaire on tears
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"Her eyes are homes of silent prayers."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on eyes
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"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias; the spirit of liberty remembers that not even a sparrow falls to earth unheeded; the spirit of liberty is the spirit of Him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned, but has never quite forgotten; that there may be a kingdom where the least shall be heard and considered side by side with the greatest. "

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"All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism."

Unknown, Source on criticism
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