100 Quotes About Time-Travel

Our lives are so busy and full of distractions, that it’s easy to get caught up in the minutiae of life. We often take for granted how precious time really is, and forget that it passes just as quickly as it comes. Every day we move through the hours like sand through an hourglass. Life can pass you by in a second, but when you slow down to take notice, you can appreciate it more Read more

All the better to remember what matters in life, right? This collection of quotes about time-travel will help you remind yourself of the beauty and wonder of everyday.

Know that love is truly timeless.
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Know that love is truly timeless. Mary M. Ricksen
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Do you think we can be friends?” I asked. He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend. Priya Ardis
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Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.” British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you. Priya Ardis
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause...
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People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff. Steven Moffat
I am charging you with the protection of my mother...
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I am charging you with the protection of my mother and friends, not to mention keeping my younger self off the Internet. He is as dangerous as Opal. Eoin Colfer
I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I...
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I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem. Diana Gabaldon
Vane’s lips tightened to suppress a smile. “Why so hostile,...
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Vane’s lips tightened to suppress a smile. “Why so hostile, love?”“ You whacked me on the head with a ball! ”“ You deserved it. Priya Ardis
I caught his hand. “What do you want me to...
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I caught his hand. “What do you want me to do?” Leaning down, he kissed the pulse beating on my neck just above the damaged skin. “Tomorrow, I need you to die. Priya Ardis
He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I...
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He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face. Priya Ardis
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I noticed him right away. No, it wasn’t his lean, rugged face. Or the dark waves of shiny hair that hung just a little too long on his forehead. It wasn’t the slim, collarless biker jacket he wore, hugging his lean shoulders. It was the way he stood. The confident way he waited in the cafeteria line to get a slice of pizza. He didn’t saunter. He didn’t amble. He stood at the center, and let the other people buzz around him. His stance was straight and sure. . Priya Ardis
Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the...
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Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I ate him up and didn’t let go until I had to come up for air. Priya Ardis
Gentle he would be, denied he would not.
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Gentle he would be, denied he would not. Diana Gabaldon
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When I am out there, in time, I am inverted, changed into a desperate version of myself. I become a thief, a vagrant, an animal who runs and hides. I startle old women and amaze children. I am a trick, an illusion of the highest order, so incredible that I am actually true. Audrey Niffenegger
Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an...
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Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an ugly chain with a yellow diamond were his only apparel. Priya Ardis
I tell you all the time, you will never be...
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I tell you all the time, you will never be able to replace me with a brass and steam contraption. Maeve Alpin
What I know about love, I can write on the...
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What I know about love, I can write on the head of a matchstick. Barbara Avon
You are every missing part of me.
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You are every missing part of me. Barbara Avon
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Speranța e doar în infinitul posibilităților. Alexandru Lamba
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How little we have, I thought, between us and the waiting cold, the mystery, death--a strip of beach, a hill, a few walls of wood or stone, a little fire--and tomorrow's sun, rising and warming us, tomorrow's hope of peace and better weather . What if tomorrow vanished in the storm? What if time stood still? And yesterday--if once we lost our way, blundered in the storm--would we find yesterday again ahead of us, where we had thought tomorrow's sun would rise? . Robert Nathan
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Ah! listen the song of storm from my disturbed soul;and it scatters flower buds into its lonely halls;like every pain needs a dirge, with wreaths that awful the world framed one for me, and gives the time it calls. Nithin Purple
Keep the faith. The vision is always for the appointed...
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Keep the faith. The vision is always for the appointed time. Be patient, prayerful and wait for the fulfillment of your visions. Lailah Gifty Akita
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But I cannot accept a vision of You as an engineer who spends His days maintaining the machine of morality. I cannot take the idea of You as an optimizer, introducing evil into human affairs in an attempt to create the best of all possible worlds. I cannot bear this cold mathematician's God who sees all the universe as nothing more than an elaborate problem to be solved. Such a world is a world with no meaning, one in which one history is no more or less preferable to any other. . Dexter Palmer
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I am not a fan of the magical quick fix in any fiction, including fantasy, scifi and comic books. Unless Dr. Who is involved, and then only because we get to use the phrase 'Timey-wimey wibbliness' which, I'm sure you'll agree, there are not enough occasions to drop into ordinary adult conversation. Chris Dee
What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one...
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What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions? G.F. Smith
One may never get to know how fast the time...
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One may never get to know how fast the time travels till the one gets in that position to race against the time. Neel Preet
Go for it because for all those moments that you...
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Go for it because for all those moments that you would make up your mind the other might have already rushed for it. Neel Preet
Time is the real emperor and there is no space...
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Time is the real emperor and there is no space for any pride since time flies and blows away anything. Neel Preet
Till the time you realize your conquest you already reach...
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Till the time you realize your conquest you already reach that stage when you start losing the grip. Neel Preet
What use was time to those who'd soon achieve Digital...
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What use was time to those who'd soon achieve Digital Immortality? Clyde DeSouza
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Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. If you can bend space you can bend time also, and if you knew enough and could move faster than light you could travel backward in tie and exist in two places at once. Margaret Atwood
We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about...
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We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation. Criss Jami
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But time is like that, it’s a bitter acquaintance that no matter how hard one tries to fight it one can’t. One always is bound to its constantly ticking onward and even though many have wanted to bottle it, it just couldn’t be done. Anna Aquino
In a Sense, we all are Time Travelers! We are...
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In a Sense, we all are Time Travelers! We are Surviving each and every Active Time-Point in this Timeline....... Aldrin Mathew
Such a funny thing, time. You spend your whole life...
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Such a funny thing, time. You spend your whole life wishing there was more or less of it, never realizing that the time already given could be worth more than that which you wished for.” -Davina Moryah DeMott
Come here, cat. You wouldn’t want to destroy the space-time...
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Come here, cat. You wouldn’t want to destroy the space-time continuum, would you? Meow. Meow. Connie Willis
If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from...
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If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future? Stephen Hawking
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If you see an antimatter version of yourself running towards you, think twice before embracing. Unknown
That's just how time travel looks like to the untrained...
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That's just how time travel looks like to the untrained eye. The reason why there aren't more travelers is that your average physicist refuses to be eaten by a giraffe in the name of science. Bradley Sands
If Time travel were possible, the future would have already...
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If Time travel were possible, the future would have already taught the present to teach the past how to do it. Atom Tate
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First, the idea of the multiverse is essentially the fantasy of preserving perfect information. One of the hard things to deal with in life is the fact that you destroy potential information whenever you make a decision. You could even say that's essentially what regret is: a profound problem of incomplete information. If you select one thing on a diner's menu, you can't know what it would have been like to taste other things on it, right then, right there. When you marry one person, you give up the possibility of knowing what it would have been like to have married any number of others. But if the multiverse exists, you can at least imagine there's another version of you who's eating that other thing you thought about ordering, or who's married to that other man you only went on two dates with. Even if you'll never see all the information for yourself, at least you'll be able to tell yourself that it's. Dexter Palmer
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The scientific method entails two assumptions that are so basic that, even if you spell them out, they are still difficult to keep in mind. First: that the observer stays the same while the world changes. Second: that cause precedes effect. But the very nature of the experiment we are conducting means that the second of these assumptions is thrown into doubt. We are deliberately attempting to engineer an event in which effect chronologically precedes cause. If one of these assumptions is under threat, why not the other? . Dexter Palmer
I want to do something very important. Like fly into...
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I want to do something very important. Like fly into the past and make it come out right. Marge Piercy
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My fear for you outweighs my fear of him, ” he said simply. “And I told you, didn’t I? If you left, I’d follow you.” But should you try to leave on your own, know that I will go to the ends of the earth to bring you back. Alexandra Bracken
It is great to do what you love but greater...
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It is great to do what you love but greater with the great team. Lailah Gifty Akita
Every great day has a story and a song!
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Every great day has a story and a song! Faith Reese Martin
War between free-will and predestination makes the idea of time...
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War between free-will and predestination makes the idea of time travel is still too difficult to digest. Toba Beta
Not everyone can decode a dream! Dreamers are those abled...
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Not everyone can decode a dream! Dreamers are those abled minds that can read the intent of the dream in terms of energy, frequency & vibration...! Vishwanath S J
The past was
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The past was "built", the present is "assembled" & the future - "programmed"! Vishwanath S J
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Are you done briefing the company yet?"" We, um... Haven't gotten through the introductions yet."" Allow me: Time-traveling Kevyn Andreyasn, this is the mercenary company "Tagon's Toughs.""Company, this is the time-traveling Kevyn Andreyasn, who will have become your captain thirty-two hours from now, as of seven weeks ago. Now, quick. Let's go save the galaxy while they're confused. Howard Tayler
Time travel is complicated, or so we think, since we...
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Time travel is complicated, or so we think, since we have not yet managed to actually figure out how to do it. Serena Yates
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This is what I say: I've got good news and bad news. The good news is, you don't have to worry, you can't change the past. The bad news is, you don't have to worry, no matter how hard you try, you can't change the past. The universe just doesn't put up with that. We aren't important enough. No one is. Even in our own lives. We're not strong enough, willful enough, skilled enough in chronodiegetic manipulation to be able to just accidentally change the entire course of anything, even ourselves. Charles Yu
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Father is pleased with your progress. You humans are all the same you know. You’re always refusing just to enjoy the moment you’re in when you don’t understand things. You know just because you don’t understand something doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy it. Father gave you all this for a gift. Have fun a little. You are at a royal affair. Maybe you should lighten up.” Really? My life was on hold and an angel was complaining to me that I needed to kick back and relax. Did an angel just tell me to lighten up? . Anna Aquino
Alone in the dark, the Creator lights a flame of...
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Alone in the dark, the Creator lights a flame of fire, to guide my path. Lailah Gifty Akita
Life seeks for willing soul. You can be the one.
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Life seeks for willing soul. You can be the one. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading. Jasper Fforde
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Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s ch Priya Ardis
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But I can tell you this: that I am deeply proud of Rebecca. That she made a split-second decision to save the life of her son, turning the wheel of her vehicle so that her side of it would be impacted by an oncoming car instead of his. She gave her life in the exercise of the greatest gift that God grants us–the ability to change the trajectory of history. Dexter Palmer
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Isn’t that the fantasy? If I go back in time, knowing what people back then didn’t know, then I can change history! But history made you what you are. And it’s bigger than any one man. Dexter Palmer
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The best we can do is take the history we have and deal with it. Christopher L. Bennett
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...is any history really all that ancient?... Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present? Margaret Peterson Haddix
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We must graciously endure the times. Lailah Gifty Akita
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If you don’t capture the moments, it will be gone forever. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Although, the journey is long, keep traveling. Lailah Gifty Akita
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You've never had wok-seared spicy broccoli until you've had takeout trans-temporal wok-seared spicy broccoli delivered by a copy of yourself. Magnus Von Black
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It wouldn't do to go mixing up the present and the past, and cutting bits out of one to fit into the other. E. Nesbit
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When it came to time travel, science and science fiction and fantasy had flip-flopped. Nobody was going to create a machine that traveled to the future or the past. Time machines might be accepted in science fiction as an enabling device to get the story moving, but they're like faster-than-light space ships-- neither one is going to happen any time soon, not with any technology we know how to implement. The guys who had it figured were the fantasists, Dennis. The Finneys and the Mathesons and the Ellisons and the Serlings. No machines and no advanced physics, at least not most of the time. Just an overpowering desire. Just need and longing and pain and regret and the right talisman or the right surroundings. Put the right person in the right place, and perhaps with the right objects, and the potential for time travel is there. Tony Rabig
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If the future historians were to digitally unearth our generation, they would decipher the facial expressions on the "Selfie's" as the generation of people suffering from wide spread constipation! Vishwanath S J
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The cool touch of the rock soothed Waeccan. He felt its strengthflowing into him, trickling through his fingertips. The Shades wereon his side. They would bring back the peace he needed for hiswork. The intruder was just a man–nothing more. He would bedealt with. Everything would be as it was meant to be. Waeccanallowed himself a grim smile. How strange it was that he, whosename meant watcher, had become the one who was watched. Mikey Campling
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Travelers aren't found. They're called. Chess Desalls
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No doubt you've experienced something similar in books, movies, novels—whatever you use as an excuse to get away, to suspend reality. Literary characters, like these projections, draw you in and cultivate feelings of friendship on your part. Although, no matter how much you learn about them, how much time you spend with them—how far you can see into their thoughts and words, how they interact with others, their looks, what they wear—they will never, ever know you. Chess Desalls
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Good to see you too, Otto." -Sydney Rose Unknown
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If the race isn't over after you have won, then it wasn't your game! Vishwanath S J
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A Genius always admires the choices of the most Confident Fool! Vishwanath S J
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Fear doesn't let you fail, it releases you from illusion! Vishwanath S J
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Love" is a brilliant defying logic that thrives on human weaknesses! Vishwanath S J
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Spending time with God is the greatest treasure. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Failure is a sign post, directing the right road for life’s journey. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Keep trusting God. He will lead you in every step of the journey. Lailah Gifty Akita
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You have to conquer every mountain to fulfill the dream. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Time is more than money, it is life. Lailah Gifty Akita
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After every voyage, we bring with us renewed mind, refreshed soul and new viewpoints on life. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Failure is a sign post of life, guiding us to the right paths. Lailah Gifty Akita
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If we seek for the best times to act, we may miss some opportunities. We must seize the moment and make it great. Lailah Gifty Akita
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In the darkest time, I have always believed, the light will shine. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Spring time is a time for revival of every living thing. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Endure the times for a better tomorrow. Lailah Gifty Akita
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I remember my father, who had served in Vietnam, once talking to me about how real courage is when you're scared out of your mind but you do what you have to do anyway. I didn't feel very courageous at the moment. I felt like a small mouse in the mouth of a lion. Anna M. Aquino
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We lied to ourselves thinking in our minds we knew everything. We were deceived in believing that youthful enthusiasm could replace wizened maturity. Anna M. Aquino
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I feel as if I've gone past the lukewarm stage that Jesus talked about in the book of Revelations and am slowly dwindling on cold. Deep down I want to change, but I don't know how. I'm the pastor. I'm supposed to know how. I hide my frustration with an obsession for Ohio State football and hours at the I Sold It on e Bay internet cafe around the corner from the church. Anna M. Aquino
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The couch and I were what I would describe as frenemies. I loved to hate it. It was too small for my frame. I had tried to tell my wife that fact when we bought it off of Craigslist, but she assured me that it went perfectly with our room decor and it was a good deal. Anna M. Aquino
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They weren't people that liked change. They were the kind of people that would have tied change to a chair with dental floss if they could in order to avoid it. They were the type of people who desired to live in their virtual bubbles and grew to resent anyone that challenged that world. Anna M. Aquino
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I looked up at the wall. My bachelor's degree had been in History. Films like Back to the Future and Quantum Leap had been some of my favorite programs. Could time travel really be possible? This seemed too unreal. Anna M. Aquino
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I could smell death in the air and I knew it was mine. I could see the world spinning around me and I could sense the blows being thrust into my body. I blacked out. Anna M. Aquino
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As far as not seeing your fruit is concerned, you know many people have this idea that things need to happen when you think they should and if they don't you get this idea that God isn't in it. The fruit you've seen isn't bad fruit. It's just green. It's not ready. I've heard you humans complain time and time again about God telling you to do something and then the frustration begins to set in. You are so busy checking your fruit every two days that you don't realize it's just not ripe yet. Anna M. Aquino
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Your passion dwindling out isn't Father's fault either. You can't blame that on Him. He has you in Merchant for a reason. You may not see it yet. But there is purpose. Father always has a purpose. Anna M. Aquino
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Ask the Creator to direct your path. Lailah Gifty Akita
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May my children, fear, know and walk with God. Lailah Gifty Akita
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When you arrive at the destination, never forget where the journey began. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Enjoy the beauty of a sacred day. Lailah Gifty Akita