You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try read more

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

But time growing old teaches all things.

But time growing old teaches all things.

A better present makes for a good past and future.

A better present makes for a good past and future.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

I'm at this time in life when I have to take the opportunities I have left.

I'm at this time in life when I have to take the opportunities I have left.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

Backward, flow backward, O full tide of years!
I am so weary of toil and of tears,
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Backward, flow backward, O full tide of years!
I am so weary of toil and of tears,
Toil without recompense--tears all in vain,
Take them and give me my childhood again.
I have grown weary of dust and decay,
Weary of sowing for others to reap;
Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep.