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“Time was mathematically explicable; it was the heart—the part of the brain represented by the heart—that was the mystery.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“This is not an easy time
But tell me—tell me here, with all we know upended:
What has real meaning and value for you? Right now?
What is worth your time and love, your self-investment,
No matter what the morrow brings?”
― Shellen Lubin

“We remembered Cassandra telling us that we would invert the order of things: time would turn inside out around us like a portrait swallowing its own frame.”
― Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho

“What if every dream you ever dreamt was a part of a dream that you're living?

To my Smiling Soul,

If there is one thing I have learnt over Time that stands solid and can pass the test of Time in every Universe then that is the Strength of our Soul when we live through the Smile of our Heart. It doesn't matter, how much time goes by, how many detours or losses fell on your path, as long as you stand your ground, as long as you don't let regret or failure to get the better of you, you win, you walk with slow but steady steps knowing there is someone watching over you, holding onto integrity and grace.

You remember to bury your pain, your loss, your sorrow and plant a seed of Love instead with a Hope that someday, Somewhere in some corner of this Universe you will find your due, something that only He alone can give you, something that is yours, entirely yours.

Until then, keep reminding the world that a Unicorn doesn't need to be a lion or a wolf in the wilderness of Life.

- your Smiling Dream

To every Dreamer, keep weaving that halo of dream for you never know where you might end up in the Smile of Time, because Life knows exactly the Dream that Life weaves around us.

Love & Light, always
- Debatrayee”
― Debatrayee Banerjee

“I'm 26," she said, as if it were bad news she had received only recently. "It isn't the age I feel like."

"What age do you feel like?"

"Nineteen, like you."

But to me, 19 still felt old and somehow alien to who I was. It occurred to me that it might take more than a year, maybe as many as seven years, to learn to feel 19.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

“Paying someone to do something on our behalf is the closest we can get to buying time.”
― @Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don’t expect, I feel civilisation has become a little safer”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“How to kill time is a question for those who waste it.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“When the Sunrise clutches my soul, I often wonder what if our souls are made in grayscale, only to soak in the colours of the day, every single day walking through every single moment of each passing day.

What if every ray that paints the horizon is but a bunch of souls ornate in different shades of white only to find the different shades of black to melt away in a Sunset Sky, in a Smile of embracing a day anew or in a mellow cry of a day's passing by.

Perhaps the Dawn has the answer, or perhaps there's a whisper in the Dusk!

All while, let me search away for the pieces of my soul in the grayscale of Time's hue.
And I know, Life will put the colours back again, one more time, at Time's cue.

Love & Light, always
- Debatrayee”
― Debatrayee Banerjee

“She had plenty of leisure now, day in, day out, to survey her life as a tract of country traversed, and at last become a landscape instead of separate fields or separate years and days, so that it became a unity and she could see the whole view, and could even pick out a particular field and wander round it again in spirit, though seeing it all the while as it were from a height, fallen in its proper place, with the exact pattern drawn round it by the hedge, and the next field into which the gap in the hedge would lead. So, she thought, could she at last put circles on her life. Slowly she crossed that day, as one crosses a field by a little path through the grasses, with the sorrel and the buttercups waving on either side; she crossed it again slowly, from breakfast to bed-time, and each hour, as one hand of the clock passed over the other, regained for her its separate character: this was the hour, she thought, when I first came downstairs that day, swinging my hat by its ribbons; this was the hour when he persuaded me into the garden, and sat with me on the seat beside the lake, and told me it was not true that with one blow of its wing a swan could break the leg of a man.”
― Vita Sackville-West, All Passion Spent

“the concept of eternity must not be grasped as if it were suspended time, or in any case not in the sense that eternity would come after time, for this would turn eternity into the future, in other words into a moment of time. And the concept of eternity must also not be understood in the sense of a negation of time, so that it would be merely an abstraction of time. For time in its concept is, like the concept itself generally, eternal, and therefore also absolute presence.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Philosophy of Nature

“Master Wong told me that in ancient China, time was kept according to the position of the sun in the sky. Inherent in this character is the understanding that time is circular, that no matter how much the sun moves, it will always come back around again. In English time is spelled with four letters. A finite thing made of finite letters. Maybe this is the difference, I think, for those that speak English, there is a limit to time. That is why it is so important to differentiate between past, present and future. When I know this, I also know I will be able to write time perfectly for the rest of my life in both languages. This is how I begin to understand English.”
― Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Four Treasures of the Sky

“I'm not separate from this world, nor is this world separate from me; time had not taken hold of me yet and distances are nothing but ripples on the water”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Butterflies in November

“Those who attempt to go ahead of time might fall behind the times.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Time has no present or future; it is always in the past.”
― Joey Lawsin, Inscription by Design

“From stone to sand and sand to silt, what grows today will one day wilt.”
― Sean Norris, Heaven and Hurricanes

“Time is distance, and when it is suspended, we are no longer in the world but a part of the world.”
― Karl Ove Knausgaard, Autumn

“I have never respected chronological order. It has never existed for me.”
― Patrick Modiano, Invisible Ink

“The present moment is the entirety of reality.”
― @Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The passage of time is as real as the movement of an animated object.”
― @Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If time eats the doughnut, does love eat the hole?”
― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“Sungguh nyata; melewati satu detik ketika bersamamu seolah lebih dari seratus tahun bahagia di sisimu. Dan melewati satu detik ketika tanpamu, seolah lebih dari seratus tahun kehilanganmu. Nyatanya, semua lebih dari satu detik bersamamu dan tanpamu.”
― JejakPotret Lys

“We can change the world, but we can't change ourselves...”
― Alexander Sharko

“Help me see through the dark.”
― Jordan Hoechlin

“You only have so much time to read. You could read all day, every day, and you would never come close to reading all the books and articles that are out there, so make sure what you read is worthwhile.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, Homeschooling on a Budget

“Ah, the faint grain of sand, the merciless hound at our heels, the spoke of the season's wheel”
― F.C. Yee, The Dawn of Yangchen

“But what if all that isn’t true?â€� the girl who was at that moment behind his back was to say to him two years later; an enormous span of time—Bruno thought—because it was not measured in months or even in years, but rather, as is peculiar to this class of beings, in spiritual catastrophes and days of utter loneliness and inexpressible sadness; days that lengthen and become distorted, like shadowy phantoms on the walls of time.”
― Ernesto Sabato, Sobre héroes y tumbas

“...I realised it wasn't possible to take back the whole seeing ghosts conversation. Turning back time wasn't an option. Even Cher didn't manage that in the end.”
― M. N. Cox

“Truth can set us free, but sometimes knowing the truth can create more storms.”
― Aron Micko H.B, At the Back

“In English, plurality and timing matter. You cannot talk about an action, without also talking about when it happened, the past, present, or future, can define an entire experience. This is the hardest part. It is not enough to say that someone gives you something, the old woman tells me, you have to express when. Everything is rooted in time. Say give, say gives, say given, say gave. Give, gives, given, gave. I want to ask her why. Why is it so important in English and not in Chinese. What difference does the question of time make? The Chinese character for time, Shijian, is made with the charter of sun to represent the four seasons.”
― Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Four Treasures of the Sky