There are very few human beings who receive the truth complete and staggering by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment on a small scale by successive developments cellularly like a laborious mosaic.

Anais Nin
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  2. How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever. - David Norris

  3. Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. - Dion Boucicault

  4. But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

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  2. To change skins evolve into new cycles I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic living...

  3. One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life and that leap is the most difficult to make-to part with one's faith one's love when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.

  4. When you make a world tolerable for yourself you make a world tolerable for others.

  5. Each friend represents a world in us a world possibly not born until they arrive and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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