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“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.”
― Lao Tzu

“Time is an illusion.”
― Albert Einstein

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

“You may delay, but time will not.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“Man's character is his fate.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“Always having what we want
may not be the best good fortune
Health seems sweetest
after sickness, food
in hunger, goodness
in the wake of evil, and at the end
of daylong labor sleep.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“The poet was a fool
who wanted no conflict
among us, gods
or people.
Harmony needs
low and high,
as progeny needs
man and woman.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“Give me one man
from among ten thousand
if he is the best”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“Eternity is like a child playing at draughts; the kingdom belongs to a child.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“Things keep their secrets.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“Dogs, by this same logic, bark at what they cannot understand.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“Stupidity is better
kept a secret
than displayed.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing, for the known way is an impasse.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“Justice in our minds is strife.
We cannot help but see
war makes us as we are.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“Many fail to grasp what they have seen,
and cannot judge what they have learned,
although they tell themselves they know.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“Yearning hurts,
and what release
may come of it
feels much like death.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
― Stephen Hawking

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
― Albert Einstein

“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure. Being open to the wounds of life means also being open to the bounty and beauty. Don’t mask or deny your vulnerability: it is your greatest asset. Be vulnerable: quake and shake in your boots with it. the new goodness that is coming to you, in the form of people, situations, and things can only come to you when you are vulnerable, i.e. open.”
― Stephen Russell, Barefoot Doctor's Guide to the Tao: A Spiritual Handbook for the Urban Warrior

“Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.”
― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni