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Don't try to leave for there's so very much to do, and you still have over eight hundred years to go on the first job.' 'But why do only unimportant things?' 'Think of all the trouble it saves. If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing. ↗

— Norton Juster

#life #life-lessons #motivation #moving #procrastination

Destiny, she’d learned, was written in the heavens; a person couldn’t take what the universe didn’t wish to give. ↗

— Jennifer Haigh

#life-lessons #life

it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice between being happy or being a poet, I'd choose to be happy. ↗

— Mary Karr

#poet #writing-life #life

Steadfast Seas and Mountains The lofty mountains and the seas, Being mountains, being seas, Both exist and are real. But frail as flowers are the lives of men, Passing phantoms of this world. ↗

— Reiko Chiba

#passage-of-time #life

A year from now you may wish you had started today. ↗

— Karen Lamb

#goals #procrastination #today

Yes it's true, you wake the child inside of you up because you're a Mom! ↗

— Sandra Chami Kassis

#life #motherhood #mothers #parenting #wisdom

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#love #passion #writing #life

If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#christianity #clarity #display #hoarding #horror

Your never over the hill to find true love because sometimes, that's where it is ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#life #love #my-love #philosophy #relationships

It is June. This is what I have decided to do with my life just now. I will do this work and lead this life, the one I am leading today. Each morning the blue clock and the crocheted bedspread, the table with the Phone, the books and magazines, the Times at the door. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#life