What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
Scottish Proverb
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So little time and so little to do.
Oscar Levant
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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.
Mason Cooley O Magazine, April 2004
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Mark Twain
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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
Maria Edgeworth O Magazine, April 2004
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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.
Malcolm Forbes
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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.
Chuck Sigars The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003
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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'
John F. Kennedy
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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
Jim Bishop
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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.
Jef Mallett Frazz, 08-01-05
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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
Jane Austen Mansfield Park
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All my possessions for a moment of time.
Elizabeth I
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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey 'A Woman of Independent Means'
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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.
Paul Klee
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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
Plutarch
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930
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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
W. Somerset Maugham The Moon and Sixpence
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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Theophrastus from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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People find life entirely too time-consuming.
Stanislaw J. Lec "Unkempt Thoughts"
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We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
John F. Kennedy
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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Rodin
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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.
Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess Northern Exposure, Hello, I Love You, 1994
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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.
Baltasar Gracian
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg
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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
Robert Byrne
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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
Max Frisch
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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Douglas Adams
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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Henry David Thoreau The Book of Positive Quotations
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There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
Robert Half The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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Postpone not a good action.
Irish proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
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Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
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Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
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A day is a miniature eternity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
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The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
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The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King, Jr. The Book of Positive Quotations
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Time is the one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain a friend; one may lose and regain money; opportunity once spurred may come again; but the hours lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful purposes.
C. R. Lawton Soar...If You Dare
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If busyness is an emotional complex, then it's likely that when we are busiest, we are doing least. We can be extremely active without being busy, and busy without accomplishing anything. We may be feverishly engaged in some task and yet not truly focused on the matter at hand. The job may be merely a means to accomplish some other goal: to make money, to impress, or to prove oneself to another. Our busyness may be a way to avoid difficult emotions and thoughts, or we may simply believe that it's important never to waste time.
Thomas Moore The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life
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...time it self, because it protects you from shapelessness, because it makes you pace yourself, and because it reminds you to keep moving, could very well be one of your greatest allies... But only if it persuades you to keep moving, and not to panic.
Barbara Sher Live the Life You Love : In Ten Easy Step-By Step Lessons
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So never try to manage time. It will beat you at every turn. Never try to plan your days and nights minute by minute. Do schedule your time, but never schedule 100 percent of it. You'll kill your creative impulse if you do. Never try to organize every minute of your time weeks in advance, or you'll be bored to death. Instead, let time renew itself around you. Let it divert you. Let it do something unexpected, something new. Let it bring nice things, and let it bring bad things over which you have no control. And don't try to use personal tricks to fool time. It will always catch up with you.
Nicolas Hayek "Unit of 1: It's About Time" edited by Jill Rosenfeld, Fast Company, November 1999
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Do not delay;

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow American Quotations
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Nothing flows faster than the years, daughters
Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo: Discovering the Life of Leonardo Da Vinci
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There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.
William Penn Light from Many Lamps
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It is possible to make each year bring with it a lasting gift to add to the fullness of experience, to be treasured up, savored, and remembered. They need not be startling, these gifts of the years; they may be things that lie within the reach of all.
Grenville Kleiser The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
Samuel Johnson The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
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Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.
Samuel Johnson Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: life time joy happiness aging

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore How to Want What You Have
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation on how it shall be spent.
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
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This is the precious moment, but strangely, sadly, few people know it.
Timothy Ray Miller How to Want What You Have
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We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly in to the future; but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
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Who loses a day loses life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
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When you're inundated with work and you feel completely overwhelmed, the best way to gain time is to add balance.
Julie Morgenstern "Unit of One," Fast Company, November 1999
Categories: balance priorities time managment stress

It is not time which needs to be managed; it is ourselves.
Gillian Butler, Ph.D. and Tony Hope, M.D. Managing Your Mind: The Mental Fitness Guide
Categories: planning procrastination wasting time management

Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour;
``Improve each moment as it flies!
``Life's a short summer, man a flower;
``He dies--alas! how soon he dies!
Samuel Johnson Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
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Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying.
And this same flower that smiles
today, Tomorrow will be dying.
Henry David Thoreau The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: time aging life fulfillment happiness

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau Walden
Categories: time priorities laziness life vision

Life is very short, and very uncertain; let us spend it as well as we can.
Samuel Johnson Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin Jump Start Your Brain
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The secret of what life's all about
Was answered by the sages:
Life's about one day at a time
No matter what your age is.
Robert Half The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
French proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: life learning growth time aging

Recognize that neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had. It is what you live in. You can drift or you can swim, and it will carry you along either way.
James Gleick Faster : The Acceleration of Just About Everything
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Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Winston Churchill The Book of Positive Quotations
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When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life...Time is the only wealth we're given.
Barbara Sher I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
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Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
Dion Boucicault The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
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The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order.
Eudora Welty Simple Abundance
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The most valuable time-management technique that I've learned is patience. Patience is a muscle that I strengthen every day... You can't hurry a learning curve...
Alison Crawford "Unit of One," Fast Company, November 1999.
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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
Faith Baldwin Simple Abundance
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One of these days is none of these days.
H.G. Bohn Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: life time present attitude trivia routine gratitude

This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
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Priorities are not written in granite. They need to be flexible and change as we do...It takes peace of mind and clarity to recognize and reorder meaningful, personal priorities. Maybe that is why so many of us procrastinate.
Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance
Categories: priorities goals planning balance procrastination time management

Time is a finite resource and we all place infinite demands on it. I view time as an opportunity, as a chance to make choices about how I spend that resource -- because it is our choice. And that's something people often forget.
Maggie Wilderotter "Unit of One," Fast Company, May 2000.
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The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
Orville Wright The Guinness Chronicle of the 20th-century in Quotations edited by David Milsted
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It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Franklin Seasons Planner, September 21, 1993
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A frontier is never a place; it is a time and a way of life.
Hal Borland The Vein of Gold : A Journey to Your Creative Heart
Categories: frontier discovery creation creativity time growth change

He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine; he will not, however, render ineffectual things which have already taken place.
Horace The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: present future past time self-confidence self-awareness action opportunity change

Clear therefore they head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well; for thy judgement will be distinct, thy mind free, and the faculties strong and regular.
William Penn The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: meditation prayer calm serenity thoughts thinking time efficiency judgement

Nobody sees a flower--really--it is so small it takes time--we haven't time--and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O'Keefe The Artist's Way
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But sage experience only comes with years.
Samuel Coleridge, from the poem Quae Nocent Docent (In Christ's Hospital Book) The Portable Coleridge
Categories: wisdom knowledge mature maturity age aging experience learning time growth

'Now' is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.
Barbara Sher I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
Categories: time dreams goals action circumstances life living fulfillment procrastination

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life.
Henry David Thoreau The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: life time success priorities focus vision mission goal happiness

When we love something it is of value to us, and when something is of value to us we spend time with it, time enjoying it and time taking care of it.
M. Scott Peck The Road Less Traveled
Categories: love relationships friendships priorities balance marriage parenting time planning

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.
Charlotte Bronte Treasury of Women's Quotations
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Life is but short; no time can be afforded but for the indulgence of real sorrow, or contests upon questions seriously momentous. Let us not throw away any of our day upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity. It is best not to be angry; and best, in the next place to be quickly reconciled.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: life time priorities sorrow questions philosophy resentment anger forgiveness relationship

An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
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Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.
W.L. Shirer The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness joy spirituality sadness depression meditation journaling prayer self-control self-discipline quiet time

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Phillip James Bailey The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: aging time gratitude attitude value action work effort life meaning fulfillment purpose

The measure of our future success and happiness will not be the quality of the cards we are dealt by unseen hands, but the poise and wisdom with which we play them.``
Choose to play each hand to the best of your ability without wasting the time or energy it takes to complain about either the cards or the dealer or the often unfair rules of the game.``
Play both the winning and the losing hands as best you can, then fold the cards and ante up for the next deal!
Joe Klock Like Klockwork: The Whimsy, Wit, and (sometime) Wisdom of a Key Largo Curmudgeon
Categories: success future happiness life poise wisdom complaints time energy rules attitude perseverance

As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity, and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world around you.
Grenville Kleiser The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: character patience punctuality time sincerity integrity honesty solicitude caring giving attitude perception

We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going day in and day out. Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.
Arnold Bennett The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: time procrastination work effort success results goal vision mission purpose meaning achievement

...what I focus on in life is what I get. And if I concentrate on how bad I am or how wrong I am or how inadequate I am, if I concentrate on what I can't do and how there's not enough time in which to do it, isn't that what I get every time? And when I think about how powerful I am, and when I think about what I have left to contribute, and when I think about the difference I can make on this planet, then that's what I get. You see, I recognize that it's not what happens to you; it's what you do about it.
W. Mitchell Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: focus perspective mistakes balance success failure time power ability effectiveness action effort

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
Mark Twain Bits and Pieces magazine, Vol. R No. 40
Categories: planning success achievement goals goal-setting daily tasks productivity efficiency time management procrastination

To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the Ultimate Purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done--this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.
Thomas Dekker Light from Many Lamps
Categories: smile happiness opportunity present vision work job purpose love laughter character gentleness kindness courtesy manners sleep joy time

To live means to experience--through doing, feeling, thinking. Experience takes place in time, so time is the ultimate scarce resource we have. Over the years, the content of experience will determine the quality of life. Therefore one of the most essential decisions any of us can make is about how one's time is allocated or invested.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement With Everyday Life
Categories: time balance planner planning priorities balance life living experiences choices

Wisdom will never let us stand with any man on unfriendly footing. We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sympathy or intimacy to come. But whence and when: Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.

Categories: life wisdom relationships friendships tolerance sympathy authenticity time life present future

There are many find things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of some less fortunate fellow traveler. Today you can make your life...significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with it as you will.
Grenville Kleiser Light from Many Lamps
Categories: intentions action today life circumstances present past future time appreciation sympathy generosity appreciation forgiveness self-sacrifice giving sharing talents gifts ability

...so often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this earth. We forget that there is a reason for all of the pain and all of the struggle. We forget that we were put on earth to learn something. If everything were perfect in this life, we would never learn anything new. We would not be able to elevate our spirits through the events that happen to us.
Lynn V. Andrews Walk in Balance
Categories: growth meaning of life purpose fulfillment pain challenges problems time struggle despair depression challenges adversity learning self-improvement problems illness disability