Someday we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better.
—Gabrielle Zevin in Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Many of us have no long-range vision in much of our struggle. We think only of the moment, this time, this place, this circumstance. But think of the ten generations of children that inherit love, and their children, and theirs.… Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
—Stephen Covey
All our sweetest hours fly fastest.
—Virgil
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
—Tallulah Bankhead
Maybe some people just aren’t meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It’s like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn.
—Danielle Steel in The Gift
I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
—Isaac Newton
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
—Ashley Montagu
Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.
—Gerald R. Ford
I can’t imagine what my life was before. I can’t imagine ever being without you for very long again.
—Anna Godbersen in Splendor
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
—Ogden Nash
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
—William Faulkner
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
—Will Rogers
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
—Soren Kierkegaard
It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.
—Gabrielle Zevin in Elsewhere