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“Punctuality is the thief of time”	Khalid	[ "hedonism", "time" ]
“The Universe is very, very big.It also loves a paradox. For example, it has some extremely strict rules.Rule number one: Nothing lasts forever.Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun. It is an absolute rule. Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is ...	Khalid	[ "eternity", "forever", "infinity", "love", "paradox", "time", "universe" ]
“The chief beauty about timeis that you cannot waste it in advance.The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,as perfect, as unspoiled,as if you had never wasted or misapplieda single moment in all your life.You can turn over a new leaf every hourif you choose.”	Khalid	[ "faith", "hope", "new-beginnings", "new-day", "time" ]
“I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.”	Khalid	[ "born", "era", "interview", "magazine-interview", "quote", "time", "vanity-fair" ]
“You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.”	Khalid	[ "time" ]
“You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life”	Khalid	[ "family", "life-and-living", "priorities", "time" ]
“Time's the thief of memory”	Khalid	[ "jake-chambers", "memory", "roland-deschain", "time" ]
“There's no advantage to hurrying through life." -Shikamaru Nara”	Khalid	[ "life", "naruto", "pace", "patience", "shikamaru-nara", "time" ]
“With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have”	Khalid	[ "time" ]
“Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.”	Khalid	[ "time" ]
“Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.”	Khalid	[ "dreams", "love", "poetry", "time" ]
“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.”	Khalid	[ "enterprise", "hard-work", "inspirational", "time" ]
“Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of...	Khalid	[ "river", "time", "water" ]
“Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.”	Khalid	[ "bees", "impermanence", "insight", "mujō", "philosophy", "stillness", "time", "無常" ]
“Time will explain.”	Khalid	[ "time" ]
“But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.”	Khalid	[ "antoine-de-saint-exupery", "heart", "the-little-prince", "time" ]
“But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow.”	Khalid	[ "in-love", "love", "time" ]
“the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.”	Khalid	[ "die", "lifetime", "people", "sunsets", "time", "tired" ]
“I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.”	Khalid	[ "life", "time" ]
“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”	Khalid	[ "august", "autumn", "fall", "nature", "seasons", "summer", "time" ]
“The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.”	Khalid	[ "dream", "future", "ghost", "past", "present", "time" ]
“The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.”	Khalid	[ "aging", "impatience", "time", "wisdom" ]
“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”	Khalid	[ "precious", "time", "truth" ]
“I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.”	Khalid	[ "anxiety", "art", "beach", "born-ready", "cape-cod", "coming-of-age", "constellations", "depression", "destiny", "fate", "friends", "girls", "growing", "growing-up", "healing", "hope", "inspiration", "jennifer-elisabeth", "learning", "life", "love", "lovers", "ocean", "...
“Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.”	Khalid	[ "death", "friendship", "time" ]
“I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another. Let visitors trip. And the highest enjoyment of timelessness―in a landscape selected at random―is when I stand among rare butterflies and their food plants. This is ecsta...	Khalid	[ "magic-carpet", "time" ]
“Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.”	Khalid	[ "action", "inspirational", "time" ]
“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.”	Khalid	[ "time" ]
“This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gl...	Khalid	[ "age", "goodness", "growth", "righteousness", "time" ]
“I'd like to get away from earth awhileAnd then come back to it and begin over.May no fate wilfully misunderstand meAnd half grant what I wish and snatch me awayNot to return. Earth's the right place for love:I don't know where it's likely to go better.”	Khalid	[ "brevity", "love", "nature", "time", "youth" ]
“The best things are never arrived at in haste. God is in no hurry; His plans are never rushed.”	Khalid	[ "god", "plans", "time" ]
“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”	Khalid	[ "love", "time" ]
“Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life. ”	Khalid	[ "time" ]
“An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.”	Khalid	[ "infinity", "passion", "time" ]
“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”	Khalid	[ "eternity", "present", "time" ]
“Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.”	Khalid	[ "experience", "suffering", "time", "wisdom" ]
“When you are measuring life, you are not living it.”	Khalid	[ "life", "living", "time" ]
“The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.”	Khalid	[ "alone", "art", "author", "blessed", "boredom", "company", "contemplate", "contentment", "creativity", "curse", "good-company", "growth", "hard-work", "imagination", "independent", "loneliness", "perseverance", "reflection", "self-sufficient", "solitude", "time", "writer" ]
“It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.”	Khalid	[ "life", "time", "waste" ]
“Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.”	Khalid	[ "insanity", "madness", "time" ]
“Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.”	Khalid	[ "time", "trains" ]
“The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for a Grand Designer, and revealing how the universe created itself. … Time itself must come to a stop. You can’t get to a time before the big bang, because there was no time before the big bang. We have finally ...	Khalid	[ "beginning", "big-bang", "caucasian", "cause", "cosmology", "origin", "philosophy", "physics", "science", "space", "time", "universe" ]
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.”	Khalid	[ "inspirational", "life", "time" ]
“But I was youngand didn’t know betterand someone should have told me to capture every secondevery kiss & every nightBecause now I’m sitting here alone and it’s getting really hard to breath because tears are growing in my throat and they want to break out, but there are peoplewatchingand I just want to be somewhere si...	Khalid	[ "alone", "charlotte-eriksson", "empty-roads-broken-bottles", "heartbreak", "in-search-for-the-great-perhaps", "kiss", "love", "love-story", "moving-on", "poetry", "prose", "sad", "the-glass-child", "the-great-perhaps", "time", "young-love", "youth" ]
“Where your attention goes, your time goes”	Khalid	[ "attention", "focus", "focusing", "productivity", "productivity-quotes", "productivity-tips", "time", "time-management" ]
“Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.”	Khalid	[ "change", "embarrassment", "learning", "life", "time" ]
“I wanted to go on sitting there, not talking, not listening to the others, keeping the moment precious for all time, because we were peaceful all of us, we were content and drowsy even as the bee who droned above our heads. In a little while it would be different, there would come tomorrow, and the next day and anothe...	Khalid	[ "time" ]
“Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.”	Khalid	[ "inspirational", "time" ]
“We’re running out of time, he said.As if time were the kind of thing you could run out of, as if it were measured into bowls that were handed to us at birth and if we ate too much or too fast or right before jumping into the water then our time would be lost, wasted, already spent.But time is beyond our finite compreh...	Khalid	[ "endless", "life", "time" ]
“Time heals all wounds. But not this one. Not yet.”	Khalid	[ "healing", "scars", "time", "wounds" ]
“Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unope...	Khalid	[ "bird-by-bird", "breaking-down-assignment", "childhood", "encouragement", "homework", "project", "project-management", "school", "time", "time-management", "writing", "writing-advice" ]
“Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.”	Khalid	[ "collecting", "love", "museum", "nostalgia", "space", "time" ]
“L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.”	Khalid	[ "eternity", "life", "time" ]
“A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune”	Khalid	[ "misfortune", "time" ]
“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”	Khalid	[ "love", "time" ]
“The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly.”	Khalid	[ "time" ]
“Time management is about life management.”	Khalid	[ "life-and-living", "life-lessons", "life-management", "lifestyle", "productivity", "productivity-tips", "time", "time-management", "time-slipping" ]
“Time has no meaning,Love will endure..”	Khalid	[ "love", "patience", "time" ]
“Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular months—they're like dog months.”	Khalid	[ "college", "time" ]
“If you imagine the 4,500-bilion-odd years of Earth's history compressed into a normal earthly day, then life begins very early, about 4 A.M., with the rise of the first simple, single-celled organisms, but then advances no further for the next sixteen hours. Not until almost 8:30 in the evening, with the day five-sixt...	Khalid	[ "history", "science", "time" ]
“Life has a way of going in circles. Ideally, it would be a straight path forward––we'd always know where we were going, we'd always be able to move on and leave everything else behind. There would be nothing but the present and the future. Instead, we always find ourselves where we started. When we try to move ahead, ...	Khalid	[ "behind", "forgetting", "future", "give-up", "life", "strength", "time" ]
“Time doesn’t heal all wounds. We both know that’s bullshit; it comes from people who have nothing comforting or original to say.”	Khalid	[ "death", "death-and-dying", "death-of-a-loved-one", "depressing", "gay-romance", "grief", "heartbreaking", "sad-quotes", "time" ]
“How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certa...	Khalid	[ "knowledge", "life", "time" ]
“If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder. ”	Khalid	[ "alibi", "crazy", "desire", "funny", "humor", "husband", "insane", "justification", "justify", "love", "murder", "necessity", "need", "relationships", "time", "want", "wife", "woman", "women", "word-junkies", "yearn" ]
“People never seemed to notice that, by saving time, they were losing something else. No one cared to admit that life was becoming ever poorer, bleaker and more monotonous. The ones who felt this most keenly were the children, because no one had time for them any more. But time is life itself, and life resides in the h...	Khalid	[ "time" ]
“Casting aside other things, hold to the precious few; and besides bear in mind that every man lives only the present, which is an indivisible point, and that all the rest of his life is either past or is uncertain. Brief is man's life and small the nook of the earth where he lives; brief, too, is the longest posthumou...	Khalid	[ "death", "existentialism", "fame", "history", "life", "purpose", "stocism", "time" ]
“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch, Whereto my finger, like a dial's point, Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears. Now sir, the sound that tells what hour...	Khalid	[ "time" ]
“You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives.”	Khalid	[ "gambling", "life-and-living", "time", "time-passing" ]
“Nothing endures but change.”	Khalid	[ "change", "impermanence", "mujō", "time", "無常" ]
“A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.”	Khalid	[ "conflict", "revolution", "society", "time" ]
“Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend.”	Khalid	[ "time" ]
“It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: holding hands, hotel rooms, music, the physics of falling leaves, vanilla and jasmine, poppies, smiling, anthills, the color of the sky, coffee and cashmere, literature, sparks and subway trains... If only one could leav...	Khalid	[ "beauty", "death", "dying", "life", "loss", "love", "regret", "sorrow", "time" ]
“The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.”	Khalid	[ "creativity", "learning", "time" ]
“Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.”	Khalid	[ "alone", "complain", "time", "whine", "work" ]
“Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.”	Khalid	[ "gift", "time" ]
“And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.”	Khalid	[ "age", "aging", "life", "time" ]
“I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.”	Khalid	[ "anxiety", "art", "beach", "born-ready", "cape-cod", "coming-of-age", "constellations", "depression", "destiny", "eyes", "fate", "friends", "future", "girls", "growing", "growing-up", "healing", "hope", "inspiration", "jennifer-elisabeth", "learning", "life", "love", "l...
“The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they creat...	Khalid	[ "acceptance", "change", "death", "life", "pain", "sorrow", "time" ]
“Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.”	Khalid	[ "love", "time" ]
“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”	Khalid	[ "time" ]
“The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.”	Khalid	[ "life", "love", "sacrifice", "the-purpose-driven-life", "time" ]
“Sometimes the things that are felt the most are expressed between two souls over the distance and over time...where no words abide. And others may speak freely, live with one another freely, express themselves freely– just like everyone else, but then there is you... you have no words for proof of reassurance, no toke...	Khalid	[ "beyond-distance", "beyond-time", "distance", "inspirational-love", "inspirational-quotes", "something-worth-keeping", "time", "two-souls", "wordless" ]
“If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid.”	Khalid	[ "career", "dream", "life", "money", "time", "wasting", "work" ]
“Tell me, he said, "What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we must wait, we must wait. what are they waiting for?""Well […] I guess people wait in order to make sure of what they feel.""And when you have waited—-has it made you sure?”	Khalid	[ "assurance", "time" ]
“You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness; and of all things, it is the scene which seems to be seen best for the first time: a curtain parts and what had not yet ever been seen is devoured by the eyes: the scene consecrates the object I am going to lo...	Khalid	[ "affirmation", "amorous", "chance", "consummation", "context", "desire", "embrace", "experience", "fortune", "gesture", "longing", "love", "love-at-first-sight", "memory", "moment", "satisfaction", "success", "time", "union" ]
“Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.”	Khalid	[ "immortality", "naturalism", "nature", "practical", "science", "sierra", "time" ]
“I am almost a hundred years old; waiting for the end, and thinking about the beginning.There are things I need to tell you, but would you listen if I told you how quickly time passes?I know you are unable to imagine this.Nevertheless, I can tell you that you will awake someday to find that your life has rushed by at a...	Khalid	[ "age", "death", "endings", "life", "love", "passage", "passions", "time" ]
“Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.”	Khalid	[ "memory", "time" ]
“Time present and time pastAre both perhaps present in time futureAnd time future contained in time past.”	Khalid	[ "poetry", "time" ]
“They'll say you are bador perhaps you are mador at least you should stay undercover.Your mind must be bareif you would dareto think you can love more than one lover.”	Khalid	[ "agape", "believe", "betrayal", "break-up", "broken", "cheat", "cheater", "cheating", "closet", "commitment", "communication", "consent", "control", "cry", "depressed", "desire", "dirty", "divorce", "divorced", "dream", "empowering", "end", "ended", "eros", "family", ...
“You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby.But these things don...	Khalid	[ "love", "real-beauty", "time" ]
“There’s a kind of time travel in letters, isn’t there? I imagine you laughing at my small joke; I imagine you groaning; I imagine you throwing my words away. Do I have you still? Do I address empty air and the flies that will eat this carcass? You could leave me for five years, you could return never—and I have to wri...	Khalid	[ "letter", "time", "unknown" ]
“Aside from velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe. You can't see it or touch it, yet a plumber can charge you upwards of seventy-five dollars per hour for it, without necessarily fixing anything.”	Khalid	[ "humor", "plumbers", "time" ]
“Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.”	Khalid	[ "emptiness", "grief", "senselessness", "time" ]
“I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think that is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other animals make their livings by living, but people work like crazy, thinking that they have to in order to stay alive. The bigger the job, the greater the chal...	Khalid	[ "animals", "farming", "food", "leisure", "living", "living-well", "napping", "priorities", "revolution", "simple-living", "simplicity", "time", "work" ]
“I lied and said I was busy.I was busy;but not in a way most people understand.I was busy taking deeper breaths.I was busy silencing irrational thoughts.I was busy calming a racing heart.I was busy telling myself I am okay.Sometimes, this is my busy -and I will not apologize for it.”	Khalid	[ "anxiety", "inspirational", "mental-health", "self-care", "time", "wisdom" ]
“Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even failed to accomplish. At the same time, if nostalgia precipitates actions to return to that fabled, rosy-painted time, particularly in one who believes his life to be a failure, then it is an em...	Khalid	[ "accomplished", "actions", "fables", "failure", "frustration", "necessary", "nostalgia", "peace", "time" ]
“I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.”	Khalid	[ "cool", "fun", "love", "sex", "time" ]
“Were all the geniuses of history to focus on this single theme, they could never fully express their bafflement at the darkness of the human mind. No person would give up even an inch of their estate, and the slightest dispute with a neighbor can mean hell to pay; yet we easily let others encroach on our lives—worse, ...	Khalid	[ "appreciation", "life", "money", "time", "values", "waste", "wasted-time" ]
“Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.”	Khalid	[ "banks", "life", "money", "time", "wealth" ]

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