"For everything you have missed, you have..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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“Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time.”
“Reality is a sliding door.”
“To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.”
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“We are all affected by five things. But the most important thing that affects us is our dreams--our ability to see the future. But here's why we don't reach into the future. We're trapped either by regret of the past or the routine of the present. So make sure that the greatest pull on you is the pull of the future.”
“Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.”
“[Sometimes I] put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.”