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It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the read more
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. -Jim Bishop.
Backward, turn backward, then time in your flight;
Make me a child again just for tonight.
Mother, read more
Backward, turn backward, then time in your flight;
Make me a child again just for tonight.
Mother, come back from the echoeless shore,
Take me again to your heart as of yore.
Laurel crowned Horatius
True, how true the saying,
Swift as wind flies over us
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Laurel crowned Horatius
True, how true the saying,
Swift as wind flies over us
Time devouring, slaying.
[Lat., Lauriger Horatius
Quam dixisti verum;
Fugit curo citius
Tempus edax rerum.]
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter read more
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its read more
Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in
which time is being inscribed.
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in
which time is being inscribed.
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; read more
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he read more
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.