"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."

Proust, Marcel on risk   

"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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"Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story."

Thatcher, Margaret on truth
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"We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."

Unknown, Source on age and aging
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"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are."

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel'' on age and aging
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"To every thing there is a season, and time to every purpose under the heaven:A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing;A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. "

Bible on uncategorised
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"Curiosity doesn't matter any more. These days people don't want to be transported to emotional territories where they don't know how to react."

Babenko, Hector on cinema   

"Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through."

Unknown, Source on change
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"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that."

Peale, Norman Vincent on achievement
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"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on compensation
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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