I love quotes.  When they are especially good, it’s like you can inhale a novel in a sentence.  You can check out many of my collections here. 

Here are the two that stand out to me, over and over.  They haunt me and inspire me, probably in part because I’m no longer 20 years old.  Here they are:

“The trouble is, you think you have time.”

Jack Kornfield, in Buddha’s Little Instruction Book (1994).

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“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.”

Mario Andretti