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• Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Attitude, Positivity

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 17, 2017

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• To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Travel, Imagination

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.209, Library of America

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• Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.

  Confucius

  Wise, Men, Conversation

  "Lun yü in Chinese, English, Malay, Tamil".

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• No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I don't do it if I can help it. Brightness disagrees with me: it hurts my eyes, wastes electricity and encourages moths, all sorts of things. I sit in the dark for a number of reasons.

  Janice Galloway

  Hurt, Eye, Dark

  Janice Galloway (1989). “The Trick is to Keep Breathing: A Novel”

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• If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Silence, Trying, Needs

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “THE BLUE CASTLE (Unabridged)”, p.115, e-artnow

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• But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like? Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have a lion as a dæmon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is. But it didn't seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up.

  Philip Pullman

  Growing Up, Feelings, Lions

  Philip Pullman (2015). “His Dark Materials: The Complete Trilogy”, p.121, Random House

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• Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.

  Pablo Picasso

  Average, Energy, Dozen

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• A life is not a waste of time

  Nalini Singh

  Patience, Wasting Time, Life Is

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.187, Penguin

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• The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.

  John Steinbeck

  Loss, Joy, Trying

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.64, Penguin

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• Worry is a waste of emotional reserve".

  Ayn Rand

  Emotional, Worry, Reserves

  AYN RAND (1971). “THE FOUNTAINHEAD”

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• At the moment, he is in shock," said Magnus. "He has believed one thing for five years, and now he has realized that all this time he has been looking at the world through a faulty mechanism - that all the things he sacrificed in the name of what he thought was good and noble have been a waste, and that he has only hurt what he he loved." "Good God," said Woolsey. "Are you quite sure you've helped him?

  Cassandra Clare

  Hurt, Years, Names

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• The night is darkening round me,
  The wild winds coldly blow;
  But a tyrant spell has bound me
  And I cannot, cannot go.
  The giant trees are bending
  Their bare boughs weighed with snow;
  The storm is fast descending,
  And yet I cannot go.
  Clouds beyond clouds above me,
  Wastes beyond wastes below;
  But nothing drear can move me;
  I will not, cannot go.

  Emily Bronte

  Moving, Night, Blow

  "The Night is Darkening Round Me". Poem by Emily Bronte, www.poetryfoundation.org. November 1837.

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• Seasons may change winter to spring, but I love you until the end of time Come what may, come what may, I will love you until my dying day Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place Suddenly it moves with such a perfect grace Suddenly my life doesn’t seem such a waste, it all revolves around you. And there’s no mountain too high no river too wide Sing out this song and I’ll be there by your side Storm clouds may gather and stars may collide But I love you until the end of time

  Ewan McGregor

  Song, Stars, Spring

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• My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Soul, Majesty

  William Shakespeare (1963). “Hamlet”, p.41, CUP Archive

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• I am a gluttonous, gorging failure. A waste. My body isn’t used to high-sugar carbs laced with witchcraft. It can barely cope with soup and crackers.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Body, Soup, Sugar

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.155, Penguin

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• I waste much time gaping and wondering. During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything. The bare fact of existence paralyses me- holds my mind in mortmain. To be alive is so incredible that all I do is to lie still and merely breathe- like an infant on its back in a cot. It is impossible to be interested in anything in particular while overhead the sun shines or underneath my feet grows a single blade of grass.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Lying, Book, Feet

  W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

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• Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

  Tina Fey

  Motivational, Confidence, Self Esteem

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 5, 2011.

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• The Jersey mentality is: I work, I drink, I stay up all night, I try to meet a girl, it's a waste of time.

  Gerard Way

  Girl, Night, Trying

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• Oh,” she said. “You can rest assured that I will kill him. Mostly this is to emphasize what I said before: no more time to lounge around and decide with no consequences. For every moment you waste deliberating today, the Oak King will be in the hands of my torturers, experiencing the most excruciating pain. Your delay extends that agony.” “Oh, irony,” murmured Dorian.

  Richelle Mead

  Kings, Pain, Hands

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.1403, Zebra Books

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• What will happen will happen and I won't waste my time worrying.

  Christopher Paolini

  Worry, Wasting My Time, Brisingr

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• Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Jealousy, Running, Real

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3698, e-artnow

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• Maybe the girl would get strong enough to withstand an ink exchange with one of the chosen faeries. If not, he could always give her to one of the weaker fey. It seemed a shame to waste a lovely broken toy.

  Melissa Marr

  Girl, Strong, Broken

  Melissa Marr (2009). “Ink Exchange”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Waste today, want tomorrow.

  Lauren Oliver

  Want, Today, Tomorrow

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.362, Hachette UK

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• How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense?

  Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

  Talking, Space, Quiet

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• Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.

  L. Frank Baum

  Wasting Time, Reason, Given

  L. Frank Baum (2007). “The Adventures of Trot & Cap'n Bill Before They Went to Oz - The Sea Fairies, Sky Island”, p.66, Lulu.com

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