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AGE	WORRIES	" Pleasant words are like honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body."               Proverbs 16:24
LIFE	FRIENDSHIP
HAPPINESS	SUCCESS
TIME	WISDOM
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AGE

"Middle age is when a man must keep fit as a fiddle or look like  a bass viol."      - Teacher's Treasury of  Stories For Every Occasion. M. Dale Baughman

"Men are like tacks; if they have good heads and are pointed in the right direction, they serve their purpose well."      - Teacher's Treasury of Stories For Every Occasion. M. Dale Baughman

"A good hunter is not known by his weapons but by his aim."      - Teacher's Treasury of Stories For Every Occasion. M. D. Baughman

"As  a white candle              in a holy place,              So is the beauty              of an aged face."                  - Joseph Campbell

"It is better to wear out than to rust out."                  -  Bishop Richard Cumberland.

"Man's needs: From 0 to 40: build on a strong foundation; from 40 up: a strong foundation to hold up his build."      - Teacher's Treasury of Stories For Every Occasion. M. D. Baughman

"I love everything that's old ; old friends , old times , old manners , old books , old wines." - Oliver Goldsmith

"How soon hath Time,       the subtle thief of youth,  Stolen on his wing      my three and twentieth year."      - John Milton

" To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. "      - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"You are as old as the last time you changed your mind."       - Tim O'Leary

"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. At first the infant....."      - William Shakespeare

"Age will not be defied."      - Francis Bacon

"The harvest of old age is the memory and rich store of blessings laid up in earlier life."      - Cicero

"Old age is not a disease. Because a person is old, he is not inadequate. There is youth in old age, and beauty too, if we only have the eyes to see."      - It Gives Me Great Pleasure. Herbert Prochnow

" When I was fifteen, I set my mind on learning.  At thirty I held on firmly to what I've learned.  At forty, I knew all about managing affairs and understanding truth.  At fifty, I realised that Heaven had its own will. I blamed neither Heaven nor man.  At sixty, I could tell whether a man was telling the truth and judge his character by listening to his speech.  At seventy, I could follow my heart's wishes and not make mistakes. "      - The Analects. Confucius

"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not."      -Mark Twain

"The gentleman helps others to utilise their strengths, and not their weaknesses. The small man does the opposite."      - The Analects. Confucius

"Life is ten percent what you make it and  ninety prercent how you take."      -Irving Berlin

"As long as you're over the hill, you might as well enjoy the view."      -Anonymous

"No one is ever old enough to know better."      Holbrook Jackson

"The trouble with class reunions is that old flames have become even older."      - Doug Larson

"Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age."      - Pope John XXIII

"You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old."      -George Burns

"Life moves pretty fast; if you don't stop and look around every once in a while, you could miss it."      - Matthew Booderick, Ferris Bueller's Day Off

"Age is a question of mind over matter, if you don't mind, it doesn't matter."      -Satchel Paige

"Don't worry about tomorrow; who knows what will befall you today?"      -Yiddish folk saying

"I used to think that forty years  Would make me wiser than my peers,  But now that I have reached the age,  I find I'm anything but sage."      - Teacher's Treasury of Stories For Every Occasion. M. Dale Baughman

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LIFE

"Life loves the liver of it."      - Maya Angelou

"I say you should live life based on how you feel and not by the calendar." Jophn Glenn

"For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life."      - William Blake

"No life is so hard but you can't make it easier by the way you take it."      - Ellen Glasgow

"Is it so small a thing  To have enjoyed the sun,  To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done?"      -  Matthew Arnold

A Psalm of Life "Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou are , to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each to-morrow Finds us farther than to-day. Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, in the bivouac of life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife! Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living present! Heart within, and God o'erhead! Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait."      - Henry Wadsworth  Longfellow

"Remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses."      - Marcus Aurelius

"Live life fully; give it meaning - Praying, thinking, sharing, loving."      - Emile S. T. Cheng

"Every life is a work of art, shaped by the person who lives it."      - It Gives Me Great Pleasure. Herbert Brochnow

"So far as in us lies, we must play the immortal and do all in our power to live by the best element in our nature. "      - Aristotle

"For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life."      - William Blake

"A mind , like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself."      - Louis L'Amour

"Feeling strong and strongly feeling. Being glad and glad of being. Care for need and needing caring. Sharing self and selfless sharing. Full of spirit spirit filling. Will is warm and warmly willing. Giving joy enjoy the giving. Life is love and love is living. "      - Joseph Byron

"But boldly say each night, To-morrow let my sun his beams display,  Or in clouds hide them; I have lived to-day."      - Abraham Cowley

" Living in rented apartments, jamming roads and subways, punching time clocks, cramming the minds of children with technical knowledge, modern man sacrifices health of body and freedom of spirit to the scientific idol of his time. On its altar go the smell of earth, the feel of wind and weather, warmth of friendship, understanding of children, even the contemplation of God; all these are given over to a metallic  existence. "      - Charles A. Lindbergh

"We are always getting ready to live, but never living."      - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each  to-morrow Finds us farther than to-day"      -H.W. Longfellow

"Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st,  Live well, how long or  short permit to heav'n."      - John Milton

" I wouldn't swap one wrinkle of my face for all the elixirs of youth, all of these wrinkles represent a smile, a grimace of pain and disappointment... some part of being fully alive. "      - Helen Hayes

"There are three ingredients in the good life; learning, earning and yearning."      - Christopher Mallow

"The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you. "       - Brendan Behan

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."      - George Santayana

"Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of , and the value of it is nothing other than the sense you choose."      - Jean-Paul Sartre

"Life itself can't give you joy ,             Unless you really will it ;             Life just gives you time and space.             It's up to you to fill it."                 - Optimist

" No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right. "      -  Charles Simmons

"Live every day as if it was your last, but think as if you will live for ever."      - Benito Mussolini

"I will drink               Life to the lees."                  - Lord Alfred Tennyson

"Let us crown ourselves rosebuds, before they be withered."       - Wisdom of Solomon

"All human things are subject to decay. And when fate summons monarchs must obey."      - John Dryden

"Many young people starting out in life believe that freedom means the right to do the things they want to do, regardless of whether or not that right interferes with the rights and comforts of others. They mistake license for freedom; they are spiritually near-sighted. They want to be free to see life. This is a noble desire, but it is too often misunderstood and turned in the wrong direction. They should know that living does not consists in the dissipation of life but in the conservation of life. "      -Lowell Fillmore

"A little rule, a little sway,             A sunbeam in a winter's day,            Is all the proud and mighty have             Between the cradle and the grave."                 - John Dyer

"Redeem thy mis-spent time that's past;              Live this day, as if  'twere thy last."                  - Bishop Thomas Ken

"One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play it correctly, and it will give forth the beauty; play it falsely, and it will give forth the ugliness. Life is not at fault."      - Indiana Teacher

" In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on."      - Elizabeth Montagu

"The clock of life is wound but once,   And no man has the power   To tell just where the hands will stop    At late or early hour."          - Teacher's Treasury of Stories For Every  Occasion. - M. Dale Baughman

"Three rules of life were given me some years ago. I pass them on, for I have found them practical. The first is "Go," the second is "Keep Going," and the third is "Help Someone Else to Go."      - Theodore Adams

"You get a thorn with every rose; but ain't the roses sweet? This world that we're a-living in is mighty hard to beat."      - Teacher's Treasury of Stories For Every Occasion - M. Dale Baughman

"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."      - W. Somerset Maugham

"Birth does not lead to greatness; but the cultivation of virtues by a person leads him to greatness. "      - Jainism: Vajjalagam 687

"The superior man, seeing what is good,  imitates it;  Seeing what is bad, he corrects it in himself."       - Confucianism: I Ching; 42 Gain

"To refrain from evil, to achieve good, to purify one's mind - this is the teaching of the Buddhas. "      - Buddhism: Dhammapada 183

"We live a life luxurious beyond the dreams of millions upon millions of the earth's inhabitants. We are lucky. We were born into it. The least we can do with this magnificent heritage is to preserve it and pass it along as rich and as pure as it came to us."      - Eagle

"Keep skid chains on your tongue. Always say less than you think. Preserve an open mind on all debatable questions. Discuss but don't argue. It is the mark of superior minds to disagree and yet be friendly."      -  Dr. Willard Givens

"Do not dream your experiences - experience your dreams. One reality is worth a thousand dreams."      - Frank C. Ross

"The measure of a life is not its duration but its donation."      - Teacher's Treasury of Stories For Every Occasion. M. Dale Baughman

" Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life. "      - John Donne

"It has been my philosophy in life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly."      - Isaac Asimov

"He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."      - Teacher's Treasury of Stories For Every Occasion. - M. Dale Baughman

"Days are like little stations placed along life's railroad track,  Each twenty-four hours finds us passing through one and , to none can we come back,  May this station be the grandest of the stations we have passed;  And may many more await you, each one grander than the last."      - Teacher's Treasury of Stories For  Every Occasion. -M. Dale Baughman

"Accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable."      - Teacher's Treasury of Stories For Every Occasion -M. Dale Baughman

"The distance on life's journey is marked not by the number of leaves torn from the calendar, but by the number of good deeds done."      - Sunshine Magazine

"Life is like a journey taken on a train.            With a pair of travelers at each windowpane,             I may sit beside you all the journey through,             Or I may sit elsewhere, never know you,             But if fate should make me sit at our side,             Let's be pleasant travelers, - it's so short a ride !"                 - Author Unknown

"We have done much to raise our standards of  living ; now, we need to turn our efforts to the much more important task of raising our standards for  living."       - Kent Ruth

"The sooner a man is convinced that there are no shortcuts in life, the better. Some men never learn it . To the end of their lives they have a notion that there is a shortcut to wealth, a shortcut o reputation, a shortcut to health, a shortcut to happiness - if they could only find it. They walk along the high road with a continual sense of grievance. Every now and then they deviate to the right or left to reach in a step the fields of desire, but it always ends in their coming back to the main road again, a little behind where they left it."      - Quoted in NEA Journal

"This I believe. I believe that we are brought into life for a purpose, and that this purpose is improvement. That is the law of nature. Improvement means mental and physical fitness. Without these we  are discarded....."      - Edward R. Murrow

"The difficulties, hardships, and trials of life, the obstacles one encounters on the road to fortune are positive blessings. They knit the muscle more firmly and teach self-reliance. Peril is the element in which power is developed."      - W. Mathews

"The supreme duty of every man is to make a life...anyone can make a living."       - Lion Magazine

"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half  by our children."      - Clarence Darrow

"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."      - George Bernard Shaw

"The great use of a life is to spend it for something that outlasts it."      - William James

"It may be those who do most, dream most."                 - Stephen Leacock

"Don't be humble. You're not that great."                -  Golda Meir

"The seven deadly sins: "Politics without principle; wealth without work; pleasure without conscience; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice."      - E. Stanley Jones

"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in the world."      - Helen Keller

"Belief in God and in immortality gives us the  moral strength and the ethical guidance we need for virtually every action in our daily lives."      - Wernher von Braun

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."                 - Mahatma Gandhi

"The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing."       - Somerset Maugham

"When we are dead, and people weep for  us and grieve, let it  be because we touched their lives with beauty and simplicity. Let it not be said that life was good to us, but, rather, that we were good to life."      - Jacob P. Rudin

"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life."      - R. L. Stevenson

"A  man's true wealth is the good he does in this world."       - Islam: Hadith of Muslim

"Three things are necessary for the salvation of man; to know what he ought to believe, to know what he ought to desire, and to know what he ought to do."      - St. Thomas Aquinas

"The measure of a person is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves."      - It Gives Me Great Pleasure. Herbert Prochnow

"This life is only a prelude to eternity. For that which we call death is but a pause, in truth a progress into life."      - Seneca

"I am responsible only to God and history. "                  - Francisco Franco

"Our critical day is not the very day of our  death; but the whole of our life."      - It Gives Me Great Pleasure. Herbert Prochnow

"There is nothing permanent except change."                  - Heraclitus

"It's so easy to laugh. It's so easy to hate. It takes strength to be gentle and kind."      - Stephen Morrissey

"He who lives without discipline dies without honour."      - Icelandic Proverb

"Life is what happens to us while we're making other plans."      - John Lennon

"If you can go through life without experiencing pain, you probably haven't  been born yet."      - Neil Simon

"To live content with small means;  to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion;  to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy not rich;  to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly;  to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart,  to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never.  In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious,  grow up through the common.  This is to be my symphony."      -William H. Channing

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."      - Mother Teresa

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."      - Martin Luther King Jr

"Education is good only as it helps people to enrich and fulfill their lives, both in leading towards personal joy and in leading towards the extension of one's talent into modes of helping other people. "      - Harold Taylor

"To know is a great thing, all by itself. It gives you a living, yes; it also gives you fun, interest, value as a human being.    To know one specific field expertly may give you your fame, your reputation, and niche in life.     But to know life itself, in all its variety, its goodness and pain, its glory and squalor, you need to know something about many fields.    And if you care enough you will know. "      - Author Unknown

"Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort, and turns even labor into pleasant tasks. "      - Baldwin

"Education is both a personal interest and a national asset. For education enlarges life - not only for each of us as a person, but for all of us as a nation. "      - Marion B. Folsom

" The light of a good character surpasseth the light of the sun and the radiance thereof. Whoso attaineth unto it is accounted as a jewel among men."      - Baha'i Faith: Tablets of Baha'u'llah 36

"..live so that you/ can stick out your tongue/ at the insurance / doctor."      - Don Marquis

"Different living is not living in different places But creating in the mind a map."       - Stephen Spender

"To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals."        - Benjamin Franklin

"Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither; the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord."      -Job 1:21

"There must be more to life than having everything!"      -Maurice Sendak

"The time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long."      - William Shakespeare

"I was early taught to work as well as play; My life has been one long, happy holiday - Full of work, and full of play - I dropped the worry on the away - And God was good to me every day."      -John D. Rockefeller

" Reflection of a disillusioned and forlorn old  man in his twilight years: ' Life's heaviest burden is to have nothing to carry.' "      -Teacher's Treasury of Stories For Every Occasion. H. Dale Baughman

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HAPPINESS

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are... Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself. R.J. Baughan

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.  Storm Jameson

"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." - Doris Mortma

"It may be that true happiness lies in the conviction that one has irremediably lost happiness. Then we can begin to move through life without hope or fear, capable of finally enjoying all the small pleasures, which are the most lasting." - Maria Luisa-Bombal

"It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness." - Thomas Jefferson

"Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost." - James Thurber

"We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy, than in endeavoring to be so ourselves." - Goldsmith

"If it's better to be happy than wise,  And he is happy who thinks he is,  Call him who is both sage and happy a prize, While he who is wise, good and  happy, consider a whiz."       - Teacher's Treasury of Stories For Every Occasion. M. Dale Baughman

"My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here, The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so."      - Robert G. Ingersoll

"Joy exists only in self acceptance. Seek perfect acceptance, not a perfect life. "      - Author Unknown

"Contentment comes as the infallible result of great acceptances, great humilities - of not trying to make ourselves this or that, but of surrendering ourselves to the fullness of life - of letting life flow through us. "      - David Grayson

"The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts."      - Timothy Dwight

"I'm fulfilled in what I do...I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be fulfilled in a spiritual sense."      - Cora Scott King

"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis."      - Margaret Bonanno

"Happy the man, and happy he alone.   He, who can call to-day his own ;  He who, secure within, can say.  To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day. Be fair or foul or rain or shine  The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine Not Heaven itself upon the past has power,  But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour."      - John Dryden

"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what he has to do."       - James M. Barrie

"Best trust the happy moment, What they             gave             Makes man less fearful of the certain grave,            And gives his work compassion and new eyes             The days that make us happy make us wise."                  - John Masefield

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."      - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Success is getting what you want.        Happiness is liking what you get."     - H. Jackson Brown

"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of one's will."      - Epictetus, Greek Philosopher

"To be without some of the things you want  is an indispensable part of happiness."         - Bertrand Russell

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."      -Mother Teresa

"Not to admire, is all the art I know              To make men happy, and to keep them so."                   - Alexander Pope

"The road to happiness lies in two simple principles; find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have. "      - John D. Rockefeller,3rd

"All who joy would win  Must share it -  Happiness was born a Twin."      - George Gordon

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know, the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."      - Albert Schweitzer

"Never be sparing with words of appreciation, especially when they are deserved by those around us. Everyone likes to be told that they are admired, respected, appreciated and even liked."      - It Gives Me Great Pleasure. Herbert Prochnow

"To be without some of the things you want  is an indispensable part of happiness."           - Bertrand Russell

"Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself."      - James Van DerZee

"Enjoy yourself now. These are the good old days you are  going to miss later."      -It Gives Me Great Pleasure. Herbert Grochnow

"From contentment with little comes happiness."      - African Proverb

"Don't laugh at him who is old; the same will assuredly happen to us."      - It Gives Me Great Pleasure. Herbert Prochnow

"Happy are those who walk in the law of the Lord."      - Psalm 119:1

"If a family has an old person in it, it possesses a jewel."      - It Gives Me Great Pleasure. Herbert Prochnow

"Prepare in youth for your old age."                  - Yiddish proverb

"All real and wholesome enjoyments possible to man have been just as possible to him, since first he was made of the earth, as they are now; and thy are possible to him chiefly in peace. To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray - these are the things that make men happy."      - John Ruskin

" Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing."        - George Sheeham

"The highest personal satisfactions are made available chiefly through education. Beyond the mere physiological requirements for adequate food, clothing, shelter and other more or less 'animal' drives are a wide range of aesthetic satisfactions which can be obtained through education. "      - John Dale Russell

" To make happiness a goal is never to know it. To make happiness a tool is never to lose it."       - Nuggets

" Basis for happiness: something to do; something to love; something to look forward to. "       - Kanawha (Iowa) Reporter

"If there be righteousness in the heart,                   There will be beauty in the character.              If there be beauty in the character,                   There will be harmony in the home.              If there be harmony in the home,                    There will be order in the nation.              If there be order in the nation,                    There will be peace in the world. "                    - Chinese Proverb

"The poor long for riches and the rich for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility."      - Swami Rama

"Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything you have right now - and then got it back again."        - Journal of Living

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TIME

"Yesterday is a cancelled check. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is the only cash you have - spend it wisely."      - Kay Lyons

"There are only a handful of things that actually have to be done in this world, and there is time for all of them. The trouble is that most of us get to doing so many things that we have no time to be."      - Joan Younger

"There's  a proverb which says 'whatever you have, spend less'; this includes time, which should be used , not spent."      - Teacher's Treasury of Stories For Every Occasion. M. Dale Baughman

" One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that everyday is the best day of the year. He only is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with worry, fret and anxiety. Finish everyday, and be done with it. You have done what you could. "      - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What a fine lesson is conveyed to the mind - to take no note of time but by its benefits, to watch only for the smiles and neglect the frowns of fate, to compose our lives of bright and gentle moments, turning always to the sunny side of things, and letting the rest slip from our imaginations unheeded or forgotten."       - William Hazlitt

" The past is but the beginning of a beginning, And all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. "      - H. G. Wells

"Never mind about tomorrow      It always is today;     Yesterday has vanished,     Wherever none can say."         - Author Unknown

"We tend to be alive in the future, not now. We say, "Wait until I finish school and get my PH.D. degree, and then I will be really alive." When we have it, and it's not easy to get, we say to ourselves, "I have to wait until I have a job in order to be really alive." And then after the job, a car. After the car, a house. We are not capable of being alive in the present moment. We tend to postpone being alive to the future, the distant future, we don't know when. Now is not the moment to be alive. We may never be alive at all in our entire life."      - Thich Nhat Hanh. Vietnamese Zen Master, Writer and peace  activist.

"Men spend their lives in anticipation, in determining to be vastly happy at some period or other, when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other; it is our own."       - Colton

" Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. "      - Robert Herrick

"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. "      - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"Some people wear a watch - on the one hand. On the other hand they don't look at it very often."      - Garrison Keillor

"To choose time is to save time."                 - Francis Bacon

"We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial .  We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives  Who thinks most - feels the noblest - acts the best."      -  P. J. Bailey

" When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute - and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity. "     - Albert Einstein

"Sed fugit interea, fugit inreparabile  tempus  -  Meanwhile time is flying - flying never to return. "      -Virgil

"We must use time as a tool not as a couch."                 - John F. Kennedy

"In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life. "      - Marcel Proust.

"Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them."      - Charles Lamb

"O time, suspend your flight, and you, happy hours, stay your feet ! Let us savour the swift delights of our life's loveliest days !"      -  Alphonse de Lamartine.

" Time is all too brief, Words spoken to one another, precious, With visions of youth still fresh, We grow toward adulthood with grace, But we often stumble on that path, Regretting what was said, What wrong we may have caused, This is our Lord's world. We must treat it kindly And believe in each other. Time is all too brief Let us make these moments Gentle...today. "       - Judith A Lindberg

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."      - Albert Einstein

"Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time."                 - Abraham Lincoln

"No man is rich enough to buy back his past. "                 - Oscar Wilde

"No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more."      - Michel De Motaigne

" Time wasted is existence; used it is life."

" Remember that life's length is not measured by its hours and days, but by that which we have done for our country and kind. A useless life is short if it lasts a century, We may do much in a few years and we may do nothing in a lifetime. "      - Albert Pike

" Yesterday has passed; tomorrow is just a possibility; today is now. "      - Teacher's Treasury of Stories For Every Occasion. M. Dale Baughman

"What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare? No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows; Not time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass; No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars ,like skies at night; No time to turn at Beauty's glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance: Not time to wait till her mouth can Enrich that smile her eyes began? A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare."      -William Henry Davies

"Nothing is worth more than this day."      -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much."       - Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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WORRIES

"Begone, dull care !  I prithee  begone  from me !  begone, dull care,  you and I shall never agree."      - anon.

"What's the use of worrying ? It never was worthwhile,  So pack up our troubles in your old kit-bag  And smile, smile, smile."       - Georg Asaf

"When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened."      - Winston Churchill

"Care to our coffin adds a nail no doubt ;            And ev'ry grin, so merry , draws one out."                - Peter Pindar

"Our ingress into the world            Was naked and bare ;