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Originally posted by @handyandy
Time is too slow for those who wait,
too swift for those who fear,
too long for those who grieve,
too short for those who rejoice,
but for those who love, time is eternity.

~ Henry Van Dyke
That's only true if the love is requited... alas.

Torunn

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Originally posted by @handyandy
Time is too slow for those who wait,
too swift for those who fear,
too long for those who grieve,
too short for those who rejoice,
but for those who love, time is eternity.

~ Henry Van Dyke
Indeed.

Torunn

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“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
― Tennessee Williams

Torunn

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It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
~ Khalil Gibran

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-- Brian Kernighan

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“The longest journey is the journey inward.” - Dag Hammarskjöld

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I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were
told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years
after the war ended, former Defense Secretary
Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.

Walter Cronkite

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"To make the World a better place we need cooperation, not isolation."

Paul A. Roberts, on the principals of Surtism.

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Originally posted by @torunn
It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
~ Khalil Gibran
Who said that?

Torunn

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Originally posted by @rank-outsider
Who said that?
Khalil Gibran, I was told but I may be wrong. He also said, I believe:

"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were."

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Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

Aldous Huxley

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“Your outside is just what you live in, sleep in, and has little connection with who you are and even less with what you do.”

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I failed to make the school chess team because of my height

Woody Allen

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"My wife said I never listen to her, or something like that."

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How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
~J.R.R. Tolkien

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