“Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.”

Sweet Thursday (1954)

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American writer 1902–1968

Rachel Gibson (1961) American writer

Source: True Confessions

“Go where you are celebrated - not tolerated. If they can’t see the real value in you, it’s time for a new start.”

Ralph Smart

“There's a River born to be a giver
Keep you warm, wont let you shiver
His heart is never gonna wither
come on everybody time to deliver.”

River Phoenix (1970–1993) American actor, musician, and activist

Give It Away by Red Hot Chili Peppers

“Lovers to-day and for all time
Preserve the meaning of my rhyme:
Love is not kindly nor yet grim
But does to you as you to him.”

Robert Graves (1895–1985) English poet and novelist

"Advice To Lovers"
Country Sentiment (1920)

“You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times.”

Nancy Greene (1943) Canadian alpine skier and politician

1001 quotations to inspire you before you die, Quintessence Editions Ltd., 2016, ISBN 978-1-84403-895-4

“Today I started loving you again
I'm right back where I've really always been;
I got over you just long enough to let my heartache mend,
Then today I started loving you again.”

Merle Haggard (1937–2016) American country music song writer, singer and musician

"Today I Started Loving You Again" (January 1968), inspired by Bonnie Owens, who is credited as co-writer.

“Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Variant: Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.
Source: Think and Grow Rich (1938), p. 127
Context: Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.