"When I was younger, I would cling to life because life was at the top of the turning wheel. But like the song of my gypsy girl, the great wheel turns over and lands on a minor key. It is then that you come of age and life means nothing to you. To live, to die, to overdose, to fall in a coma in the street... it is all the same. It is only in the peach innocence of youth that life is at its crest on top of the wheel. And there being only life, the young cling to it, they fear death… And they should! ... For they are 'in' life."
3
"How do you live out God’s plan for your life? By living God’s way one day at a time."
3
"When it's about your life, it's time to be selfish."
4
"This is what I think aboutwhen I shovel compostinto a wheelbarrow,and when I fill the long flower boxes,then press into rowsthe limp roots of red impatiens—the instant hand of Deathalways ready to burst forthfrom the sleeve of his voluminous cloak. Then the soil is full of marvels,bits of leaf like flakes off a fresco,red-brown pine needles, a beetle quickto burrow back under the loam. Then the wheelbarrow is a wilder blue,the clouds a brighter white,and all I hear is the rasp of the steel edgeagainst a round stone,the small plants singingwith lifted faces, and the clickof the sundialas one hour sweeps into the next."
4
"I live in the present due to the constraints of the time-space continuum."
3
"Your thoughts are certain kinds of seeds in your life. You can water them and allow them to grow on fertile soil. Or, you can let them diminish and wither amongst the weeds. Be careful that your seeds are not contaminated as they begin to take root."
3
"Whenever you get an appetite, you feed yourself. Therefore, fill your belly on wisdom of things old and new. Only swallow the truth, less you choke on the lies."
3
"Astray from a deep sleep chronic as I write by phonics, like insomnia I will always live the onyx night for revealing, and, upon it, still I'll steal the bright light of day right away just to keep building at speeds hypersonic."
3
"Every day is spectacular sacred time."
3
"Time became more important the closer to death one was, so an extra few hours to make peace with the world were worth more than years."
4
"When you first meet a person, sometimes they'll pretend to be all that you like. Deception is hard to predict instantly at times, but if you hang with them for a while their true colors will eventually begin to show."
4
"I live for the moments that won't die in my memory."
4
"Don't get caught in "Waiting". When I 'Get This' then I will be able to fully 'Live'. Escape the time dominant mind by fully being here 'NOW'."
3
"There is an end to every journey. Even life will come to an end one moment in time."
4
"We are not living. We are swimming in water called time. When our bodies get tired, we drowned and die."
3
"The tender spring upon thy tempting lip Shows thee unripe; yet mayst thou well be tasted:Make use of time, let not advantage slip;Beauty within itself should not be wasted:Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime Rot and consume themselves in little time."
3
"Take time to relax, renew and be revived."
3
"This is the best worst time of my life."
4
"Typical Pollution, they’re always living in the wrong place at the wrong time."
4
"Don’t waste your time dying over the past, spend it living in the present."
3
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