It has been said that time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.
Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ...
What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you...Books break the shackles of time...proof that humans are capable of working magic.
The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it, and habit fills up what remains.
So little time, so much to know!
Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French toast during the Renaissance.
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
Sometimes you have to love people from a distance and give them the space and time to get their minds right before you let them back into your life.