Every second is of infinite value.
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Johann von Goethe
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Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.
We are never further from our wishes than when we imagine that we possess what we have desired.
God made man simple but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
I am what I am so take me as I am!
If God had wanted me otherwise He would have created me otherwise.
As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.
Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in whether he has the aptitude for it or not.
Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe but to find out what he has to do ... within the limits of his comprehension.
Treat people as if they were what they should be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men but austere perseverance harsh and continuous may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.
Time itself is an element.
It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as trifle.
A man should hear a little music read a little poetry and see a fine picture every day of his life in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Austere perseverance harsh and continuous may be employed by the least of us and rarely fails of its purpose for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it and others do just the same with their time.