Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle
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  1. The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you. - Nicholas Sparks

  2. I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you. - Jonathan Safran Foer

  3. If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you. - Andrew Davidson

  4. Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. - Arthur C. Clarke

  5. Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go. - Lana Del Rey

More Quotes By Thomas Carlyle
  1. If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

  2. He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything

  3. Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.

  4. If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

  5. The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.

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