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Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is what is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or person who explained it to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed. — Alice Walker Book : Living by the Word 🎧@homeofbookquotes

Don't leave anything for later. Later, the coffee gets cold. Later, you lose interest. Later, the day turns into night. Later, people grow up. Later, people grow old. Later, life goes by. Later, you regret not doing something... When you had the chance. Life is a fleeting dance, a delicate balance of moments that unfold before us, never to return in quite the same way again. Regret is a bitter pill to swallow, a weight that bears down upon the soul with the burden of missed chances and unspoken words. So, let us not leave anything for later. Let us seize the moments as they come, with hearts open and arms outstretched to embrace the possibilities that lie before us. For in the end, it is not the things we did that we regret, but the things we left undone, the words left unspoken, the dreams left unfulfilled. — Toshikazu Kawaguchi Book : Before the Coffee Gets Cold 🎧@homeofbookquotes

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You see, time that is wasted is also wasting us. When we kill time, we are killing ourselves. We have to learn how to use time or else it will use us . . . up. That is why we do our work promptly. Why we get to the point. Why we stick to the agenda. Why we don’t drone on, don’t tolerate digressions or indulge distractions. It’s why we keep our desk clean—so we don’t waste time looking for stuff. It’s why we get up early—so we have more time, uninterrupted time, at the freshest part of the day. It’s why we’re deliberate about what we say yes and no to, because we understand that time is a gift—and what we give it to matters. 🎧@homeofbookquotes

“Do the best you can,” the emperor says in Marguerite Yourcenar’s beautiful novel Memoirs of Hadrian. “Do it over again. Then still improve, even if ever so slightly those retouches.” It’s a beautiful irony: You’re never content with your progress and yet, you’re always content . . . because you’re making progress. 🎧@homeofbookquotes