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“Our life is so short that every time I see my children, I enjoy them as much as I can. Whenever I can, I enjoy my beloved, my family, my friends, my apprentices. But mainly I enjoy myself, because I am with myself all the time. Why should I spend my precious time with myself judging myself, rejecting myself, creating guilt and shame? Why should I push myself to be angry or jealous? If I don't feel good emotionally, I find out what is causing it and I fix it. Then I can recover my happiness and keep going with my story.”

“It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.”

Thinking Time Waste Shame Wasting Time

Author:Mitch Albom

“Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.”

Lasts Time Shame Faults Cunning Lear Cordelia

Book:Select Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators

Source: Select Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators

“With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.”

Men Stills Past Time Memories Shame Errors Wounds Bitter Preparation Flavor

Book:Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus

“Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.”

Time Eternity Shame Barbarism

Book:Tony Blair in His Own Words

Source: Tony Blair in His Own Words

“Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.”

Feels Science Mother Time Truth Is Daughter Shame Midwife

Author:Johannes Kepler

“Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us leaving us dead, killing us along with the killers but the shame of this time puts its burning fingers to our faces. Who will erase the ruthlessness hidden in innocent blood?”

War Faces Time Blood Shame Fingers Killing Leaving Innocent Burning Divided Killers Erase Ruthlessness

Book:Pablo Neruda: selected poems

Source: Pablo Neruda: selected poems