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My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.

My Life and Work (cowritten with Samuel Crowther; 1922)
No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.
I always live in the present. The future is unknown to me. The past is no longer mine.
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The Book of Disquiet
The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.
Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

Emma
The cancer of time is eating us away.

Tropic of Cancer
On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.

Tropic of Cancer
Time passes unhindered. When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well.
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