"Our time is brief, and it will pass no matter what we do. So let us have purpose in spending it. Let us spend it so that our time matters to each of us, and matters to all those whose lives we touch."

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Source : Philip Zimbardo, John Boyd (2008). “The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life”, p.316, Simon and Schuster

Philip Zimbardo

#Time Quotes #Matter Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“I don't know if I'll ever do it again or not, but frankly I don't really care.”
“There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.”
“Eat that frog! If you have to eat 3 frogs, eat the biggest and uggliest one first.”
“After I had been working as a cap maker for three years it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organization. The men had organized already, and had gained some advantages, but the bosses had lost nothing, as they took it out on us.”
“I must have been a failed football coach in a previous incarnation.”
“The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.”
“Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.”
“Remember this, you don't have to be important or special or glamorous; all you actually need is success and pleasure from whatever it is that you choose to do with your life. You don't have to become something in the eyes of others, you only have to become something in your own reality. From this humble attitude flows a sweet serenity which comes naturally from personal healing and spiritual reconciliation.”

Source : Stuart Wilde (1993). “More Love: Tender Moments”, White Dove International

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