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“Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork... They run their unswerving course from object to object, directed by some mysterious inner needle that points all the time to what they must do next. You can only marvel at such misuse of time.”

People Seems Running Time Courses Next Objects Busy Mysterious Needles Misuse Clockwork

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“Time sheds a softness on remote objects or events, as local distance imparts to the landscape a smoothness and mellowness which disappear on a nearer approach.”

Time Events Objects Approach Distance Disappear Locals Landscape Shed Impart Softness

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

“I like old people when they have aged well. And old houses with an accumulation of sweet honest living in them are good. And the timelessness that only the passing of Time itself can give to objects both inside and outside the spirit is a continuing reassurance.”

People Giving Wells Spirit Time House Honest Objects Sweet Aging Passing Passings Continuing Old People Accumulation Reassurance Timelessness Old Houses Inside And Outside Honest Living

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“Because since the beginningless past we are running after objects, not knowing where our Self is, we lose track of the Original Mind and are tormented all the time by the threatening objective world, regarding it as good or bad, true or false, agreeable or disagreeable. We are thus slaves of things and circumstances.”

World Mind Self Running Past Time Loses Knowing Objects Circumstances Originals Slave Track Objectives Not Knowing Threatening Disagreeable True Or False

Book:Manual of Zen Buddhism

Source: Manual of Zen Buddhism

“Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.”

Men Has Beens Might Time Pleasure Principles Objects Envy Curious Retirement Infidelity Adultery Another Man Inquisition Funny Retirement

Book:The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

Source: The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living