#wasted

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice. ↗

— Jose Rizal

#becoming #consecrated #edifice #field #great

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day. ↗

— Mickey Rooney

#always #day #get #get married #haven

I feel like fame is wasted on me. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#feel #i #i feel #i feel like #like

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

#bless #difference #giver #kindness #love

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#others #self #wasted

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#career #ever #feel #fundamentally #game

It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy. ↗

— Peter Coyote

#anxiety #anything #around #came #carrying

Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed over each one, this minute, the next minute, the one following, all of which were different terms for the same illusion. ↗

— Anthony Marra

#time #time-passing #wisdom #youth-is-wasted-on-the-young #age

A man who views the world the same at fity as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#truth #view #wasted-time #life

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#his #life #man #same #views