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Life itself consists of phases in which the organism falls out of step with the march of surrounding things and then recovers unison with it—either through effort or by some happy chance. And, in a growing life, the recovery is never mere return to a prior state, for it is enriched by the state of disparity and resistance through which it has successfully passed. If the gap between organism and environment is too wide, the creature dies. If its activity is not enhanced by the temporary alienation, it merely subsists. Life grows when a temporary falling out is a transition to a more extensive balance of the energies of the organism with those of the conditions under which it lives.
— John Dewey
Eliminate the overwhelming cost of phantom wars and fools' errands, and humankind might begin to balance its books. After all, its only debts are to itself.
— Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
How can you make sense of a place if it won't hold still to be counted and even its colors aren't fast? Their job was to imagine, never to know. The truth, as generations of directors had reminded their charges, would only get in the way.
— Steve Himmer, Fram
Give Nature a vacuum and she will try to fill it. Give her localized pressure and she will try to disperse it. She is forever seeking a balance she can never achieve, never happy with what she's got.
— Alan Bradley, As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.
— Morihei Ueshiba
A circle is the only geometric shape defined by its centre. No chicken and egg about it, the centre came first, the circumference follows. The earth, by definition, has a centre. And only the fool that knows it can go wherever he pleases, knowing the centre will hold him down, stop him flying out of orbit. But when your sense of centre shifts, comes whizzing to the surface, the balance has gone. The balance has gone. The balance my baby has gone.
— Sarah Kane, Crave
Any aggressive lust lacks balance and is unwholesome and obstructive.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
There is a law of opposition apparent in all life which guarantees balance and fullness.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Balance and fullness exists in the polarity of all things.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
LEASELife Ends And Session ExpiresKamil Ali - Poem, The Balance' - Profound Vers-A-Tales
— Kamil Ali, Profound Vers-A-Tales
For balance to be restored, lessons must be learned
— Sameh Elsayed
Good boundaries, created by the use of good intimacy skills, keep a committed or intimate relationship lightly balanced between the needs of the individual and the needs of the relationship.
— Anne  Katherine, Where to Draw the Line: How to Set Healthy Boundaries Every Day
Learning how to balance the needs of individuals with the no-less-real needs of an institution was an important lesson. It's fine to be on the side of the little guy, but he too will ultimately suffer if the health and concerns of the greater body he belongs to are neglected.
— Sonia Sotomayor, My Beloved World
Dorkdom isn't something you can choose. It's something you are. But instead of dividing the world up into dorkside and darkside, I've realised that we all have a little bit of dork inside us.
— Sarra Manning, Adorkable
Everything in life has a space of balance.
— Truth Devour, Wantin
Balance is the secret of reaching the far places!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Addiction to anything show signs of emptiness.Being an imbalanced individual is not sign of success.
— Ricardo Derose
Balance, the stroke of the wise, the style of the sharp. The way, the groove. Bal-ance: the sole of the feet, the soul of the Universe, takes step after step down the beat to time: da DUM, da DUM. Bal. Ance.
— Mark  Donnelly
Neither the life of anarchy nor the life enslaved by tyrants, no, worship neither. Strike the balance all in all and god will give you power.
— Aeschylus, The Oresteia
Balanced relationships are always based in freedom, not obligation.
— Michael Thomas Sunnarborg, 21 Steps to Better Relationships: Find More Balance with Others
Life and our love for others is a balancing act, I understand then; a dance between our instinct to be safe and hold fast, and our drive to flee, to run - from danger, toward new places to feed ourselves.
— Deb Caletti, The Nature of Jade
Darling, I wish I could help you. Try to remember this: to live, you need every experience. Some will come in glory and in beauty, and some in pain and what seems like ugliness. But - they are. Life consists of opposites in balance.
— Marion Zimmer Bradley, Web of Light
You have everything you need today to do what God has for you to do today.
— Shelley Hendrix, Why Can't We Just Get Along?: 6 Effective Skills for Dealing with Difficult People
The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it's between them. if you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence.
— Jane Smiley, Moo
Whatever your passion is - even if you're great at it - it can't be the only thing you do... If you do, you'll be great at that one thing... and bad at everything else... Getting that balance is not easy...
— Eric Berlin, The Puzzler's Mansion
Balance is of the essence,' she said. 'That appies to all good, harmonious relationships. Balance in guilt, balance in shame and pangs of conscience.
— Jo Nesbø
the chase for more, and the need to be recognised through our achievements and belongings, can hinder us from the real things, like time with those we love, time doing things we love ourselves, and balance. It’s probably all about balance really, isn’t it?
— Bronnie Ware, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing
If we don't control our schedule - our schedule will control us. If we don't find a way to live a balanced life -our lives will get out of balance.
— Wayde Goodall, Why Great Men Fall: 15 Winning Strategies to Rise Above It All
Life runs in a narrow path to balancing act, convincing tact, and satisfying fact.
— Santosh Kalwar
Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.
— G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death.
— Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!
I'd learned balance is internal
—  that there really wasn’t one set formula for how to live your life nor how to handle the wife-mother-businesswoman juggling act. Maybe it was just being tuned in to every role and knowing when one or the other needed to be the focus.
If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
You're incredibly, absolutely, extremely, supremely, unbelievably different.
— Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures
You're different. And I'm different too. Different is good. But different is hard. Believe me, I know.
— Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
So you're a little weird? Work it! A little different? OWN it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd!
— Mandy Hale
Little Alice fell d o w nthe hOle,  bumped her head and bruised her soul
— Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself.
— Patricia Briggs, The Hob's Bargain
People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys
The most thoroughly and relentlessly damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignored, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all 'Damned Things' is the individual human being. The social engineers, statisticians, psychologists, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this 'Damned Thing' into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the 'Damned Thing' will not fit into the slot assigned it. The theologians call it a sinner and try to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. The psychologist calls it a neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the 'Damned Thing' will not fit into their slots.
— Robert Anton Wilson
It wasn't about how she looked, which was pretty, even though she was always wearing the wrong clothes and those beat-up sneakers. It wasn't about what she said in class--usually something no one else would've thought of, and if they had, something they wouldn't have dared to say. It wasn't that she was different from all the other girls at Jackson. That was obvious. It was that she made me realize how much I was just like the rest of them, even if I wanted to pretend I wasn't.
— Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures
The things that make me different are the things that make me ME. -Piglet
— A.A. Milne
The problem is normal was'nt in my DNA. I was destined to be forever freakish.
— Julie Hockley, Crow's Row
Grow up and be different and don’t let anyone tell you not to be different, because all superheroes are different.
— Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Sometimes,well,all the time,I can't think of what to say because I'm so dumb and stuff,and then maybe I think of it like five days later.
— Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Dairy Queen
Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want to say it's more miraculous,...It is though.
— John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.
— Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
You do not have to feel truer than others in order to be original.You just need to be different and keep aspiring to be a better you.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
I'm a million different things every day of the week.
— Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You
I guess the message in the songs is that is shouldn't matter if someone moves differently, or looks differently, or talks differently. Is biotic differently. What matters is that we're all thinking beings, and if we are thinking beings we ought to be able to find common ground somewhere.
— Daniel Waters, Kiss of Life
Love is always a miracle, everywhere, every time. But for us, it's a little different.
— John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
You can't truly understand a fact by watching its' true story version.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
When I was going on one day in the car about not having any close friends - using my favourite metaphor: the cage of glass between me and the rest of the world - she just laughed. 'You like it,' she said. 'You say you're isolated, boyo, but you really think you're different.
— John Fowles, The Magus
Being me is no different than being most anyone else, I guess.
— Layne Staley
Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy.
— Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
A new man is like a new toy. Fresh and interesting. Almost intriguing. It's like when you get a new car. Everything is different. The smell, the sound of the horn and seats, and it even ride good for a while. That's what a man is like to me.
— Jeanette Michelle, Mycall
Everybody thinks it’s going to be different for them, Janice said. The dinosaurs thought so too.
— Kathryn Davis, Duplex
Being different isn't a sin, but intolerance is.
— Marty Rubin
I don't live life to be different.I live life to be the same.
— Anthony T.Hincks
Ana was a tornado. A jagged, hundred-sided peg in a community where everyone was supposed to fit into round holes.
— Fredrik Backman, Beartown
Color speaks all languages.
— Anthony T. Hincks
Remember, you are different than anyone else for a reason. A good reason. Find that reason and run with it.
— Tay Jardine
He felt as if there were something missing inside him that didn't fit in with their merriment, with their willing ignorance of the world outside the castle. It went beyond his title. He had enjoyed their company early in his adolescence, but it had become apparent that he'd always be a step away. The worst of it was that they didn't seem to notice he was different- or that he felt different. Were it not for Chaol, he would have felt immensely lonely.
— Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
Papa! You painted my nose!""I certainly did," her father said."But why?" Belle tried to see the purple dot on her face.Maurice grinned. "Because that mark makes you even more beautiful. Different and special from the inside out, just like your fantastic doll. And just like your mother, who you look and act more like every day."Belle eyed her father suspiciously. "A purple mark does all that?""Yes. Because it's yours and only yours," Maurice said.
— Walt Disney Company, Belle's Discovery
Cooking for the students and staff at Ever After High wasn't an easy feat, because there were so many palates to please. For example, fairies were known to have finicky appetites and preferred delicate, crustless sandwiches. Those from Wonderland insisted on hot tea with every meal. The vegetarians wanted organic salad bar options, while the Track and Shield team liked chowing down on heaping plates of barbecued ribs with smashed pumpkin.
— Suzanne Selfors, Kiss and Spell
There is no 'We all are different' theory. That's another condolence or compensation for 'Everybody is common, normal and indifferent'.
— Bhavik Sarkhedi
Be different and make a difference.." - Sivaprakash Sidhu
— sivaprakash Sidhu, SivaprakashG, Sidhu, Sivasidhug
Till 24,I always thought I am different and then I found out everyone is.
— Bhavik Sarkhedi
To realize that all people are alike and all are different is the beginning of wisdom.
— Jeffrey Fry
Take comfort in the knowledge that you are different, even from the different ones.
— Joyce Rachelle
I never stopped loving you,I continued loving you in a different way.
— Maite
If You See Things As It Is, You Will Never Know What It Is
— Syed Sharukh
What makes you different us what makes you stronger. You are a masterpiece uniquely designed by God. You can have tremendous victories, love, and abundance.
— Farshad Asl
Different function is a function of different system
— Sunday Adelaja
To be different is to seek God earnestly
— Sunday Adelaja
We are born different to make a difference.
— Lisa R. Reynolds
What makes you different is what makes you stronger. You are a masterpiece uniquely designed by God. You can have tremendous victories, love, and abundance.
— Farshad Asl
He blesses us so we can be different.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
I knew that I was supposed to respond with some kind of mannered phrase that ended with "hail Satan," but I couldn't bring myself to do so. It seemed too empty and ritualistic, like wearing a uniform in a Christian school.
— Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
You're different. We all are. We are each "one of a kind." This means each of us will live the Christian life differently.
— J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities
We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
Different nations... different main languages... But in the end they are "="... both as characters are fucking ignorant.
— Deyth Banger
I turn back to the Archers, who don’t look like the same species as us. Do they even sweat, these people?
— Denis Markell, Click Here to Start
Me, I trust people who show you what freaks they are. It's the ones who blend in that ya gotta watch out for.
— Hope Larson
But you are a different sort of girl. Not at all what I expected you to be. And this is a different sort of time. And so I am hopeful for all the things you may yet find.
— Jennifer Donnelly, These Shallow Graves
Those who are different, also have a tendency to think differently.
— David Lagercrantz, Fall of Man in Wilmslow
He got why Eleanor tried so hard to look different. Sort of. It was because she was different - because she wasn't afraid to be.
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
Its ok to be different, the climate is not the same in every mind
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
You can't compare me with others, I am the most different.
— Tanmaya Guru
Tactics and Checkmate in 1 move, show me some interesting stuff about chess... so far I can say that I see the chessboard different.
— Deyth Banger
Comparable specification Windows 10 computers from multiple manufacturers can have very different performance between them.
— Steven Magee
If these is right from the beginnig up to the end like in books "Don't touch this book", this is really sign your contract for jail. How I'm different??I just watch, read and do stuff which most people even all don't read.... I do stuff which are rare for some people...
— Deyth Banger
Why were we born different? Why do we see the world how it actually is? Because we were meant to change the world, but not live in it.
— Jennifer Megan Varnadore
To see something different gives you a chance to be something different!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are different and alone it doesn't mean you won't see a moonlight
—  there is a sunrise for everyone and everyday.
Awesome, Monk have a brother from the film Monk 2000, however... what makes you think that film and reality are different?
— Deyth Banger
If you are different you will berejected. . .If you are same you will be accepted. . .so which one do you wanna be ?
— shivangi lavaniya
We are all different in every individual person. But from here I ask myself what do they see when I see a car which is red, what colour do they see, do they see also red and is the same colour which I know red for them?
— Deyth Banger
Being different was about something more than just our dicks.
— Paul Monette, Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
We aren't different, from the others.
— Deyth Banger
About Differences: Those who would believe in a higher power by whatever name must also believe that same higher power made all things. On that basis, people of good character will recognize that some people are different from ourselves, in color, gender, speech, opinion, lifestyle, and in other ways. Different is not an evaluation. As I taught my children while they were growing up, "Different is only different." Celebrate differences for therein lies the basis for much of what we learn in life.
— James  Osborne
Every day i throw my leg over this steed, I know this ride could be the last for me, it's in my blood this need to be free,some what different than your average breed.
— Jess "Chief" Brynjulson, Highway Writings
It’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.
— Jony Ive
Let's think like a cop or to be a killer. If I want to be killer I will left some kind a evidence which make me different from the others... so was it this there?? Why you close it?? Was it open?? Did you, you open it???....
— Deyth Banger
We’re all different in many ways and alike in many ways and special in some sort of way.
— Larry Kramer, The Normal Heart & The Destiny of Me
You are advising that fellow not to go. Not to do it but guess what? All those who changed the world by doing something good were told the same thing. Why is yours any different.Divine love is the key. And love will make me pray for God's perfect will be done
— Mary Tornyenyor
If you do something different, you leave your herd! And to leave your herd means to reborn with creative abilities!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Life is spent by different people in different ways.
— Sunday Adelaja
What I don’t understand about your type is that you want to emulate the other side. You kick up such a commotion about being different, and all you want is to be the same.
— Damon Galgut, Arctic Summer
The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.
— Jeniffer Niven
Ask any dreamer, it's not an easy road, But to them; they never questioned, what they'd always known.
— Nikki Rowe
Oh, this yearning to be white, this yearning to have straight hair, this lifelong striving to be different from the way one is created this great difficulty in accepting oneself, I knew it and saw only my own longing from outside, saw the absurdity of our yearning to be different from what we are...
— Max Frisch, I'm Not Stiller
Everyone, this is the new girl. Elder knows her. New girl, this is everyone.” A few people look up politely; some actually smile. Most, however, look wary at best, disgusted at worse. The nurse closest to me jabs her finger behind her ear and starts whispering to nobody.“What’s wrong with her?” I ask Harley as he leads me to the table he was sitting at.“Oh, don’t worry, we’re all mad here.”I giggle, mostly from nerves. “It’s a good thing I read Alice in Wonder-land . I definitely think I’ve fallen into the rabbit hole.”“Read what?” Harley asks.“Never mind.” All around me, eyes follow my every move.“Look,” I say loudly. “I know I look different. But I’m just a person, like you.” I hold my head up high, looking them all in the eyes, trying to hold their stares for as long as possible.“You tell ’em,” says Harley with another Cheshire grin.
— Beth Revis, Across the Universe
Yes, he wanted to do the right thing, but perhaps this time the right thing was something different.
— Christopher Fowler, On the Loose
Though the people look the same, they are different; though the people look different, they are the same!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The most interesting people are the unusual. No one writes about or discusses the average, the ordinary, or the common; they write about and discuss the weird, the mad and the different, so if you are one, even though the opinions of others are of no importance, you are, in their eyes, significant enough to notice and remember.
— Donna Lynn Hope
When I was very young I thought I was just like everyone else. I think it took me longer than most to realize I was different and even longer to realize that being different was what made me great
— Tina J. Richardson
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
— Ovid
dare to be different
— Jan Jansen
Good or bad, if you’re not “normal,” you can’t have a normal relationship. If you are different, people will relate to you differently.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
If love comes to you in a way that isn't the norm then at least it came to you
—  not everyone is that lucky.
The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.
— David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing
Everyone I've ever met who was worth knowing was a bit different at school. You just need to find your people''Find my people?''Your tribe
— Jojo Moyes, One Plus One
Buried emotions are caged nighthawks that have fallen in love with the moon. They don’t understand the sun because they were born with the darkness of shadows in their soul.
— Shannon L. Alder
This time should have been no different. But it was.
— Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds
I guess not being ‘just like them’ is a crime.
— Lisa De Jong, When It Rains
Its not that I'm weird
—  it's that it's weird not to be weird
But the English are different, and they don’t know how to be other than different.
— Larry McMurtry, The Last Kind Words Saloon
It is not easy to be different, and even less so to be unique. But I begin to think I was never meant for an easy road.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
At the same time, we held back. Because she was different. Different. We had no one to compare her to, no one to measure her against.
— Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl
We cannot force others to behave differently if they disagree with us. But if we change what we are saying or doing, they may respond differently.
— Nabil N. Jamal
You're different. You are the virgin who stayed.
— Lyra Parish, Weak for Him
hoped to prove that science and religion are two totally compatible fields—two different approaches to finding the same truth.
— Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little bit of each other everywhere.
— Tim McGraw
Why would she want to come back here and live?' I wondered. 'Doesn't seem like she'd want to.''Why do you say that?''She seems different, that's all.''I don't know,' Bud said. 'You might be confusing different with dissatisfied.
— Tawni O'Dell, Back Roads
An applause is not just the recognition of good performance, but its proof of being different than the crowd.
— Amit Kalantri
If you are not different from others very distinctively, you are not different from others at all!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
People are so different in wartime. No one gets to be ordinary. Not really.
— Sara Sheridan, Brighton Belle
Sometimes I did feel like I came from a different tribe. I was not like my outgoing, ironic dad or my tough-chick mom. And as if to seal the deal, instead of learning to play electric guitar, I'd gone and chosen the cello.
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay
He never once tells me what Tiffany thinks or what is going on in her heart: the awful feelings, the conflicting impulses, the needs, the desperation, everything that makes her different from Ronnie and Veronica, who have each other and their daughter, Emily, and a good income and a house and everything else that keeps people from calling them "odd.
— Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook
But whenever I say that I will do this or that, it looks very different when the time comes.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin
We're all weird.
— John O'Callaghan
One of the biggest contradictions in self-proclaimed open-mindedness is to say that we're all one but when a true bigot comes around tell him we're all different. It's usually the case that neither side is correct. One might have the right to do something, anything, but sure enough, that doesn't mean it's right and a benefit to other people.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
Was it possible there was some fatal flaw in their matching, that they were ultimately, impossibly different--dissimilar enough to fall in love, but too fundamentally distinct to stay together?
— Galt Niederhoffer
Strive to be different.
— Tianna Holley
You are not superior to others and others are not superior to you. You are only different than others and others are only different than you!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Weetzie could not even cry and make Kleenex roses. She remembered the day her father, Charlie, had driven away in the smashed yellow T-bird, leaving her mother Brandy-Lynn clutching her flowered robe with one hand and an empty glass in the other, and leaving Weetzie holding her arms crossed over her chest that was taking its time to develope into anything
— Francesca Lia Block, Dangerous Angels
Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
— Seth Godin
When you do different things than others, you will have a different world than others.
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Things should have beenso differentto the way they arenow.
— Emma Cameron, Cinnamon Rain
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
— C.S. Lewis
Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want to say it's more miraculous...Our miracle is different because people say it's impossible.
— John Green
the happiest among us will be most altruistic, most distinct, most benevolent and most awkward to some of us in a way.
— RKSJ, A Short Affair Called Life
Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"He stared at me, baffled. "Why the fuck would you do that?
— Stephen King, 11/22/63
Party lights hang over the street, yellow and red and green. Sadie stumbles over someone’s chair, but I’m ready for this and I catch her easily by the arm.“Sorry, clumsy,” she says.“You always were, Sadie. One of your more endearing traits.”Before she can ask about that I slip my arm around her waist. She slips hers around mine, still looking up at me. The lights skate across her cheeks and shine in her eyes. We clasp hands, fingers folding together naturally, and for me the years fall away like a coat that’s too heavy and too tight. In that moment, I hope on thing above all others: that she was not too busy to find at least one good man …She speaks in a voice almost too low to be heard over the music. But I hear her – I always did. “Who are you, George?”“Someone you knew in another life, honey.
— Stephen King, 11/22/63
The past is obdurate.
— Stephen King, 11/22/63
If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond the first picosecond. And many of course don't. It's like a human body, you see. A few cuts and bruises here and there don't hurt it. Not even major surgery if it's done properly. Paradoxes are just the scar tissue. Time and space heal themselves up around them and people simply remember a version of events which makes as much sense as they require it to make.
— Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
So now it's space and time," he said. "You ever watch Doctor Who on PBS?""All the time," she said dryly, "on the BBC. And don't think I wouldn't sell my soul for a TARDIS.
— Diana Gabaldon, Written in My Own Heart's Blood
He waved to me to be quiet, as if I were annoying background noise. "Look, whatever your name is..."Benvolio Montague."Right. Look, Benvolio, why don't we go outside and get a taxi? My label has a New York office. We can go there and get you a money order or something." He smile, thinking himself clever. "Come on, what do you say?"Benvolio raised an eyebrow. "I am begining to believe that you are insane.
— Suzanne Selfors, Saving Juliet
Shh! Listen! Someone’s coming! I think — I think it might be us!
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances.
— Diana Gabaldon, Voyager
You are telling me that I did something because I was going to do something.”“Well, didn’t you? You were there.”“No, I didn’t—no… well, maybe I did, but it didn’t feel like it.”“Why should you expect it to? It was something totally new to your experience.”“But… but—” Wilson took a deep breath and got control of himself. Then he reached back into his academic philosophical concepts and produced the notion he had been struggling to express. “It denies all reasonable theories of causation. You would have me believe that causation can be completely circular. I went through because I came back from going through to persuade myself to go through. That’s silly.”“Well, didn’t you?
— Robert A. Heinlein, By His Bootstraps
Time travel..will never be impossible forever.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
I can not travel into my past,without consent of the future me.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Can the future hsitory of the world be so fragile that it will not allow two high school teachers to meet and fall in love? To marry, to dance to Beatles tunes like "I Want to Hold Your Hand," and live unremarkable lives?
— Stephen King
He met me at the airport; it was ten in the morning, Washington time, when I arrived, after having taken a plane that left Los Angeles International at 10:10 A.M. Los Angeles time. Who says time-reversal is hard to accomplish?
— Robert Silverberg, The Masks of Time
A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can't even make it to Mars with the fastest rocket on hand today.
— Bill Gaede
Why, yes. I am a strange wonder. The most special of snowflakes! Born out of time, forever running to catch up to it!
— Ryan Graudin, Invictus
I think the worst sort of time travel is how the clock speeds up when I'm on my break.
— Joyce Rachelle
The first thing we should do in order to grasp the realm of time travel is by redefining general perception and common concepts regarding time within our daily language structure.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
You're from the future, Mr Netherton?""Not exactly," he said. "I'm in the future that would result from my not being here. But since I am, it isn't your future. Here.
— William Gibson, The Peripheral
If we do not laugh, we will cry. Crying will only make us hotter and sweatier. We Jews like to joke about death because what you laugh at and make familiar can no longer frighten you. Besides, Chayaleh, what else is there to do?
— Jane Yolen, The Devil's Arithmetic
What made you know so much about all of this?” She didn’t try to come across as angry, just curious. “It’s called American High School. Don’t worry; I’m a pastor’s wife. I speak Pretentious Caddy Women fluently.” She looked up at me questioningly. I knew she didn’t understand my humor but I thought I was hilarious.
— Anna Aquino
It would distort markets. Besides, if I bought a load of gold when I thought the price was going up, then it would drive up the price at that point. When I came to sell in the future it would depress the price. Thus, I wouldn't make the killing I thought I would, would I?""Yeah, but futures contracts.""Same thing, dear boy.""Art, then.""If I bought Constable's Hay Wain direct from the artist it wouldn't have the same cachet as it does today. The absence of that piece from the market might mean that all of his work was devalued.""Yeah, but you could bring another piece back.""Ah, then the paint and canvas wouldn't age correctly. For older objets d'art, the carbon dating would show it was younger than it should be. Sorry, Kevin. You're not going to get rich by temporal smuggling or speculation.
— Mark Speed, Doctor How and the Illegal Aliens
The one that will put the first human colony on another planet is certainly the most important human on Earth. And you can judge the rest of mankind of his time by how they judge him along the way.
— Robin Sacredfire
That's the thing about time travel — you're always moving forward, even when you go back.
— James A. Owen, Here, There Be Dragons
the only thing that really gets hurt when you try and change time is yourself.
— Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Enjoy Life when You have the Time, after the Time will have You
— Jan Jansen Easy Branches
Faye keeps forgetting what she'll be giving up if she decides to stay here. Access to modern medicine, for starters. In 2015 people can survive cancer, tuberculosis, scarlet fever. Vaccines eradicated polio and measles. Do you really want to live in a world with iron lungs and polio, Faye? Do you?” “I guess I could go back to 2015 and live in a world with meth, heroin, terrorism, HIV and Ebola. Huge improvement, right?
— Tiffany Reisz, The Night Mark
It was dizzying—cause and effect, round and round, stretching back to the source.
— Heidi Heilig, The Ship Beyond Time
If you think that you can outrun time, you must be thinking fiction.
— Syed Basit Naqvi
To say ; " I want to travel in time", just like saying;"I want to travel in dial
— Aleksandr Anufriyev, What's the Time
It's been a long time since I felt something like hope. Don't ask me to give it up for Netflix and a Prius.
— Tiffany Reisz, The Night Mark
Why do we need time travel? All the answers come down to one. To elude death.
— Gleick James
He pulled out his wallet and extracted a twenty-dollar bill, fastidiously folding it in half so that the crease cut across the face of Theodore Roosevelt, with its shining spectacles and its Chesire Cat grin.
— Dexter Palmer, Version Control
People create all kind of fancy watches and clocks, never stopping to realize they're building monuments to the greatest of all thieves.
— K. Martin Beckner, A Million Doorways
You’re white. You’re straight. You’re well educated, healthy and beautiful. Every time is for people like you.
— Tiffany Reisz, The Night Mark
She hadn't gone back in time. The idea was 
— Dexter Palmer, Version Control
The device,' Philip said. 'What are you going to do with it?''I know how this sounds. But you'll have to trust us. We'll take possession of it. We're going to dismantle it; when we do so, the wormhole will close, making this the final version of history we live through. Then we're going to box up the device and forget about it. Lose it somewhere; burn the records. It'll end up in a warehouse right next to the Ark of Covenant.
— Dexter Palmer, Version Control
In another place was a vast array of idols—Polynesian, Mexican, Grecian, Phoenician, every country on earth I should think. And here, yielding to an irresistible impulse, I wrote my name upon the nose of a steatite monster from South America that particularly took my fancy.
— H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over.
— H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
In some ways, we are traveling in time now. We just happened to be prisoners of the present in the eternal transition from the past to the future.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
So each generation set out to find more of its kind, and within just a few cycles of birth and death, the Club had spread not only through space, but also time, propagating itself forwards into the twentieth century and back into the Middle Ages, the death of each member spreading the word of what it was to the very extremes of the times in which they lived.
— Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
But the hair on her arms did not stand on end; she did not experience any strange instances of déjà vu; she did not see the ghosts of future selves shimmering before her, shouting stock picks back through time.
— Dexter Palmer, Version Control
The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago,' continued Marvin.
— Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
At the sensory level I am the divine receiving station...a two-legged, trembling-tissue, Jodrell Bank radar telescope, dancing, grumbling, sniffling Geiger counter""But there's an added feature. Each generation, I...return. Each time carried onstage, blinking, puking, bawling, bewildered by the bizarre novelty of each new drama, untutored in the language of the new script (did she say her name was Mommie?)
— Timothy Leary, The Politics of Ecstasy
If the future changed, and the time traveler we're talking about was from that future, and was the product of events that created that future, why wouldn't the time traveler also change when those events changed?
— Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
I'm not going to stand here and be eaten by some bitch's dinosaur. I am finally doing something with my life.
— Brian K. Vaughan, Paper Girls, Vol. 1
You could consider the idea of the multiverse, and think of it as something like a tree—that is, the universe we live in is one of an uncountable number of branches of possible universes, created by random chance and the decisions of sentient beings. So, for instance, when I rang you up in the morning, there was a possible future universe in which you answered the phone, and another in which you did not, and by answering the phone you put us in one universe and not the other. In that instance the time traveler doesn't just move from the future to the past and back to the future: he moves down one branch of the universe, toward the root that's back at the beginning of time, and back up another branch.
— Dexter Palmer, Version Control
I looked up and beyond him again, focusing in on the horror that swords, arrows, clubs, and staffs left behind on human flesh. The open wounds. The blood, The brokenness. The inglorious remains of war.
— Lisa Tawn Bergren, Bourne
But we think that if a human were to violate conventional causality—''By time traveli
— Dexter Palmer, Version Control
She closed her eyes, and as had been her habit over these past couple of days, she began to imagine possible past histories and what she might have done to change them into the new one in which she lived, either inadvertently, or out of a misguided attempt to play God and make the world a better place, or, worse, with malice aforethought. Any time she spent in the past would have been clipped out of history, as neatly as if it had never happened, because it hadn't happened.
— Dexter Palmer, Version Control
Time travel would give humanity the ability to alter the past and prune the tree of all possible futures of those branches that had been infected by evil
—  with enough revisions humans would eventually bring about the one version of history that was fully good.
Time travel? I believe there are people regularly travelling back from the future and interfering with our lives on a daily basis. The evidence is all around us. I’m talking about how every time we make an insurance claim we discover that somehow mysteriously the exact thing we’re claiming for is now precisely excluded from our policy.
— Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
If you don't like the place where you find yourself, Waldemar, it pays to remember that you'll be somewhere else in just a moment. The place itself will be a different place.
— John Wray, The Lost Time Accidents
Life is full of little surprises.Time travel is full of big ones.
— David Gerrold, The Man Who Folded Himself
But I love him. You know it. You can't ask me to just sit back and let Paul do this. If he succeeds I won't even remember having met Jesse." "Right," my dad said reasonably. "So it won't hurt." "It will," I insisted, "It will hurt, Dad. Because deep down I'll know. I'll know there was someone… someone I was supposed to have met. Only I'll never meet him. I'll go through my whole life waiting for him to come along, only he never will. What kind of life is that, Dad, huh? What kind of life is that?
— Meg Cabot, Twilight
Time cannot be changed, but time can change you.  -YakupAdar
— -YakupAdar
Well, that's it." I said after we had waited for another five minutes and found ourselves still in a state of pleasantly welcome existence. "The ChronoGuard has shut itself down and time travel is as it should be: technically, logically, and theoretically...impossible." "Good thing, too," reply Landon. "It always made my head ache. In fact, I was thinking of doing self help book for science-fiction novelists eager to write about time travel. It would consist of a single word: Don't.
— Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels
Who could be satisfied with seeking out the four corners of one small world, when there was the whole of time to be had?
— Alexandra Bracken, Passenger
We know the thing is four months away. Technically, it's already there and we're four months away.
— Brian Clevinger, Atomic Robo and the Shadow from Beyond Time
Time and space travel is easily achievable using tape. The physicality of the recordings allow us to jaunt to any location and time. There isn’t enough scope for arbitrary and random interjections with digital recordings. There must be an unconscious input from the recorder to traverse the cosmos.
— Steven LaVey, Shorts
Waldo nodded and waved goodbye pathetically, like a young father going off to war. 	As soon as the door was closed and he was gone, Jeanne squelched her own apprehensions, opened the paper and read the poem Waldo had written for her:One taste of Jeanne and out I flewWildly, madly, in no directionBut hers, and yet so straight and trueI fly towards her with no protectionIt feels so strange to move this wayThough I should land, desire it seemsMoves in strange circles and so I stayDisoriented beyond my wildest dreams.
— Donald Jeffries
Try this." O'Grady smiled. "It's the only thing we drink. It'll warm your insides."	"What is it?" Asked the ever cautious Waldo.	"We call it the Forest Flaming Special. Go ahead-drink up."	"Well, okay...." Waldo lifted the cup and nearly dropped it when saw his name printed clearly on the side. 	"We've been expecting you." Explained Fred, beginning to laugh.
— Donald Jeffries, The Unreals
Snow is both our best friend and worst enemy. Best friend because it shows us in a concrete form the paths other have taken to get where they are. Worst enemy because it will tell such tales of us if we chance upon it. I find poetry in snow that cannot be resisted. In a way, it is the closest to time travel most civilians will ever manage.
— Thomm Quackenbush, A Creature Was Stirring
Be Happy and Positive all will come Good in Time.
— Jan Jansen
Most girls prefer flowers over trees.' I brush my fingers on the petals." These orange flowers blossom quickly. Thay speak of passion. Of beauty." I take a witheting flower that had dropped to the ground and worry it between my fingers. "But they don't last; they wither so easily. Flowers have limited growth. A tree might not speak of passion but sturdiness. Yet it grows higher and lasts more. Some of these trees have been here before I was born and they'll be here once I'm gone.
— Mya Robarts, The V Girl
The truth is, time travel is hard, and people are lazy.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix, Redeemed
He made time travel sound almost like hide-and-seek or capture the flag or some other spylike game--only with higher stakes and greater consequences.
— Margaret Peterson Haddix, Redeemed
To enter the past is like poking a baseball bat into a spiderweb: it can't be done subtly or delicately.
— Robert Silverberg, Needle In A Timestack
She wouldn't let him pop her cherry, but he could damn sure heat up her pie. The mere thought of a little blanket bingo made Kenna squirm in the saddle.
— Maeve Greyson, My Highland Bride
Scotland - The Highlands - Thirteenth Century 	"Have ye e'er seen such a lovely set o' bosoms?
— Maeve Greyson, My Highland Bride
Do you have any idea how rare a twenty-three-year-old virgin is where I come from?
— Maeve Greyson, My Highland Bride
Is it possible to find your future in the past?
— Liz Ann Hawkins, Rewind
Time is no one's friend--time has no social niceties and holds the door for nobody nowhere. But I hold the door for time, with my one good paw.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
The boy with the haunted eyes was Dory's secret. Eli. And she knew that she had to see him again.
— Teresa Flavin, Jet Black Heart
There's a bit of a local legend about a jet heart that has turned up over the years," Flynn said. "Any time it turns up, strange things happen.
— Teresa Flavin, Jet Black Heart
A black pendant in the shape of a heart lay in her hand. It was carved with roses and strung onto a velvet cord.
— Teresa Flavin, Jet Black Heart
Coming from where we do, it’s a rough adjustment—living here.” He put a hesitant hand on her shoulder, his calluses scratching against the fabric of her dress. “It’s true what they say about life in the dark ages, you know: nasty, brutish, and short. You and I once took it for granted we would die as old people in our beds, but we have no such assurance now. I’ll help you how I can, Isabella; but I can’t guarantee that either of us will live even to see tomorrow. Life is worth fighting for, young lady. But don’t feel it is something you’re owed.
— Kristin McTiernan, Sunder
If you do not move in synchronization with time, you will be left behind.
— Sunday Adelaja
In the spirit of the Alpha and the Omega, in the way the Alpha was theOmega, and vice versa, he knew the beginning was also the end—and that the end was just another beginning.
— Sol Luckman, Snooze: A Story of Awakening
Madison, or “Maddie,” as she preferred, wondered what could be at the end of that road.
— Alice Marks
But nothing compared to the reality of the magnificent Light Storm of 2015, nothing, that is, except the almond shaped emerald eyes of his passenger.
— H.M. Jones, Masters of Time: A Science Fiction and Fantasy Time Travel Anthology
It is easy to time-travel, the physicist says—we do it every day. Travelling backward is the problem.
— Rebecca Curtis
I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation.
— H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
Never rely upon a time machine to fix your problems, as everyone knows, they're much too faulty.
— Lily O'Brien