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• Waste: Loss of something valuable that occurs because too much of it is being used or because it is being used in a way that is not necessary or effective. Merriam Webster
• Waste: Expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose. Oxford Dictionary
• Waste: To consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander.  Dictionary.com
• Sustainability,  Care for the environment,  Excess,  Greed,  Frugality

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Waste creates want and scarcity

• The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. Thomas Love Peacock
• Hundreds would never have known want if they had not at first known waste. Charles H. Spurgeon
• Waste is a tax on the whole people. Albert W. Atwood
• Willful waste makes woeful want. Scottish Proverb
• Waste makes want. English Proverb
• Waste not, want not. Proverb

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Don’t waste your attention

• Give up on news. It’s a never-ending cycle. And if you’ve paid attention to the news as long as I have (I’m a former journalist), you know it’s all the same, year after year. Unless your job depends on it, the news is usually a waste of your attention. Let go of the need to stay updated. Leo Babauta
• See your focused attention as your most precious resource. Don’t squander it.
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Don’t waste ideas

• Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!  Les Brown
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Don’t waste your mind

• A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don’t do it. Eric Schmidt

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Don’t waste your body

• Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. Ovid
• There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. Mahatma Gandhi

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Don’t waste the joy and peace in this present moment

• The Chinese word for “busy” is composed of two characters: “heart” and “killing.” When we make ourselves so busy that we are always rushing around trying to get this or that “done” or “over with,” we kill something vital in ourselves, and we smother the quiet wisdom in our heart. When we invest our work with judgment and impatience, always striving for speed and efficiency, we lose the capacity to appreciate the six million quiet moments that may bring us peace, beauty, or joy. As we seek salvation through our frantic productivity and accomplishments, we squander the teachings that may be present in this very moment, in the richness of this particular breath. Brother Steindhl- Rast
• Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. Roger Babson
• Joy,  Inner peace, The gift of now

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Don’t waste opportunity

• Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them. Jackson Brown Jr.
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Don’t waste money

• Money is never to be squandered or spent ostentatiously. Some of the greatest people in history have lived lives of the greatest simplicity. Remember it’s the you inside that counts. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
• Time is waste of money. Oscar Wilde
• Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything. Benjamin Franklin

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Avoid waste through frugality

• Being frugal does not mean being cheap! It means being economical and avoiding waste. Catherine Pulsifer
• The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything. Benjamin Franklin
• Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything. Benjamin Franklin
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Avoid waste through thrift

• Thrift: The quality of using money and other resources carefully and not wastefully.  Oxford Dictionary
• Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste. K. Chesterton

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Most of all, don’t waste yourself …

• A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man’s greatest tragedy and God’s heaviest grief. W. Tozer
• Do not waste yourself in rejection; do not bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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… especially your talent and potential

• Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it. John Paul II
• I am sure in my own mind that the one business of life is to succeed, that God did not give us these magnificent brains, these miraculous personalities, and these wonderful physical qualities and then expect us to waste our lives in failure.  Sterling W. Sill
• Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well. John Paul II
• He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life. Henri Frederic Amiel
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Don’t waste your life

• Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can. The Dalai Lama
• Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin

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Don’t waste your life trying to do too many things at once

• The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. Orison Marden

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Don’t waste your life by always trying to impress or please others

• Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep. Samuel Johnson
• Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Steve Jobs
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Don’t waste your life by never stretching yourself

• The Comfort Zone makes us feel good in the moment. Who cares what the future penalty will be? But the penalty does come, bringing with it the worst pain of all—the knowledge that you’ve wasted your life. Phil Stutz and Barry Michels
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Don’t waste your life on stress and frustration

• Things could be a lot worse, the stress of the situation always could be worse, but I am alive and I have a lot to be thankful for -so I shall not waste my days with stress and frustrations. Life is too short.  Catherine Pulsifer
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Beware these other forms of wasting your life

• I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. Frances Willard
• Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading useless books. John Ruskin
• Life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from the richness of life itself. Daniel Goleman
• The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. Muhammad Ali
• If you think back and replay your year, if it doesn’t bring you tears either of joy or sadness, consider it wasted. Ally McBeal
• You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears. Don’t do it. A perfect prescription for a squandered, unfulfilled life is to accommodate self-defeating feelings while undercutting your finest, most productive ones. Marsha Sinetar
• Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well. Mary Cholmondeley
• Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground. Ralph Marston

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Despite time being our most precious resource, we often waste it

• Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it.  Jim Rohn
• I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. Bernard Berenson
• In zen, it is a cardinal sin to waste time. To waste time is to squander the here and now, which, if you think about it, is all that we have. Philip T. Sudo
• It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. Henry Ford
• If you waste time, time will waste you.
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Time wasted comes at a huge price

• There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess. Sir Aubrey de Vere
• Don’t waste a moment, for wasted moments send you on the downward course. Buddha
• The biggest mistake you can make in life is to waste your time. Jerry Bruckner

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Our lives are too short for us to waste time

• Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time. It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. Leo Buscaglia
• How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever. Leo Buscaglia
• Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. Victor Hugo
• Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness–if you had little time left to live- – you would waste precious little of it! Well, I’m telling you…you do have a terminal illness: It’s called birth. You don’t have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason–  or you will never be at all.  Dan Millman
• It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. … The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully. Seneca
• Life is too short to waste on things that don’t matter. Patrick Dixon
• Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough. Benjamin Franklin

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Waste your time and you waste your life and yourself …

• Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life. Alan Lakein
• Time is life. To waste your time is to waste your life. Merrill Douglass
• Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life.  Michael Leboeuf
• We say we waste time, but that is impossible – we waste ourselves. Alice Bloch
• If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of. Bruce Lee
• Time is life. When you run out of time you run out of life. Jerry Bruckner
• A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. Charles Darwin
• We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves. Alice Bloch
• I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. William Shakespeare
• Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin

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… for time wasted can never be recovered

• Every day you waste is one you can never make up. George Allen
• One thing you can’t recycle is wasted time. Harold V. Melchert
• It’s such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it. Mitch Albom
• Love and time, those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent. Gary Jennings
• The greatest waste in all of our earth, which cannot be recycled or reclaimed, is our waste of the time that God has given us each day. Billy Graham
• Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained. Stendhal

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Time wasted leads to the pain of regret

• Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting. Arthur Brisbane
• Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. Mason Cooley
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Don’t waste time bewailing your failures and mistakes

• Don’t be afraid to fail. Don’t waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It’s OK to fail. If you’re not failing, you’re not growing. Stanley Judd
• Every person living has made mistakes. Those who proceed with living never waste time licking their wounds. New ideas take them the next step of the way. Raymond Charles Barker
• What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I’ve made. Alice Bag
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Don’t waste time trying to change anything but yourself

• The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.  Samuel Johnson

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Don’t waste time worrying what others think of you

• Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn’t have the time to sit around and talk about you. What’s important to me is not others’ opinions of me, but what’s important to me is my opinion of myself. C. JoyBell C.
• Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions … Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it. Tina Fey
• When your internal reference point is the ego, when you seek power and control over other people or seek approval from others, you spend energy in a wasteful way. Deepak Chopra
• Life is short, don’t waste time worrying about what people think of you Hold on to the ones that care, in the end they will be the only ones there.
• By golly, life’s too darn short to waste time trying to please every meddlesome moron who’s got an idea how I ought to be! I don’t need advice! Everyone can just stay out of my face! Bill Watterson
• A simple race! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile. Sir Walter Scott
• I do not waste my time in answering abuse; I thrive under it like a field that benefits from manure. Henry Labouchere
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Don’t waste time with explanations

• Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear. Paulo Coelho
• There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations. Benjamin Disraeli

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Don’t waste time trying to unveil all of life’s secrets

• Do not waste the precious moments of this, your present reality, seeking to unveil all of life’s secrets. Those secrets are a secret for a reason. Grant your God the benefit of the doubt. Use your NOW moment for the Highest Purpose – the creation and the expression of Who You Really Are. Decide who you are – who you want to be-and then do everything in your power to be that. Neale Donald Walsch
• Life is a mystery; don’t waste your time trying to figure it out. Dan Millman

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Don’t waste time on critics

• Don’t waste time responding to your critics. Life’s Little Instruction Book

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Don’t waste time on what you don’t love

• Don’t waste time trying to appreciate music. you dislike. Spend the time with music you love.   Jackson Brown Jr.
• Life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from the richness of life itself. Daniel Goleman
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Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration

• Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you. Jackson Brown Jr.
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Don’t waste time trying to control the uncontrollable

• Don’t waste your time trying to control the uncontrollable, or trying to solve the unsolvable, or think about what could have been. Instead, think about what you can control and solve the problem you can solve with the wisdom you have gained from both your victories and your defeats in the past. David Mahoney
• When your internal reference point is the ego, when you seek power and control over other people or seek approval from others, you spend energy in a wasteful way. Deepak Chopra
• When the tides of life turn against you and the current upsets your boat, don’t waste those tears on what might have been, just lie on your back and float.
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Don’t waste time wishing things were different

• Nobody’s problem is ideal. Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is sheer waste of time and soul-power to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different. Dr. Frank Crane

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Don’t waste time with people you don’t like

• Avoid negative people. They drain your energy and waste your time, so hanging with them is like shooting yourself in the foot. Geoffrey James
• A surprising number of people spend a lot of time with people they don’t like. This is a complete and utter waste of time. It’s not enjoyable, it’s tiring. Richard Koch
• Don’t waste your time giving someone a second chance, when there is someone better out there looking for their first.
• Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like. Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Don’t waste time on jealousy

• Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself. Baz Luhrmann
• I don’t get jealous of people. Jealousy is such a waste of time because you’re jealous of them, and they go about their lives and have a wonderful time, so what’s the point? Joy Behar
• Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. George Bernard Shaw
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Don’t waste time creating unnecessary complexity

• Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple. Edward de Bono
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Here are more things that are a waste of time

• I cannot afford to waste my time making money. Louis Agassiz
• Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. Norman Cousins
• Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time. Haruki Murakami
• The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone. Mitch Albom
• Waste not time searching for happiness. Freeze frame time, still the moment, and observe the happiness that already surrounds you. Mary Rain
• We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. Tom Robbins
• Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself! Marcus Aurelius
• Doing a thing well is often a waste of time. Robert Byrne
• Criticising the other fellow because he’s in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time. Hartley William Shawcross
• It’s a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black. Yoko Ono
• Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous. Confucius
• Don’t waste time learning the tricks of the trade. Instead learn the trade.
• Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge. Francesco Guicciardini

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Work out where you’re wasting time by recording it

• Grab a notebook and a pen; for an entire week, write down everything that you do and how much time you spend on it. You may be shocked to discover that you waste enormous amounts of time aimlessly surfing the web, reading blogs that don’t really help improve your quality of life, “chatting” on Twitter, and so on. Ask yourself how your life would improve if you used that time productively instead. Marelisa Fábrega

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Here are ways to prevent the waste of time

• By reducing unscheduled time and unplanned activity, you automatically reduce waste. Dan Kennedy
• Unless required for your work, never say ‘Yes’ to spending your time with someone or doing something they ask you to do unless you really want to do it. Learn to say ‘No’ to activities and people that will waste your time. Jerry Bruckner

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Nothing is a waste of time if you use it to learn and grow

• Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. Auguste Rodin
• Nothing is lost upon a person who is bent upon growth; nothing is wasted on one who is always preparing for his work and life by keeping eyes, mind, and heart open to nature, men, books, experience. Such a man finds ministries to his education on all sides; everything cooperates with his passion for growth. Hamilton Mabie
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Time spent with your children is not wasted time

• Remember that no time spent with your children is ever wasted.   Jackson Brown Jr.

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Time feeling good is not wasted time

• Do not think it wasted time to submit yourself to any influence that will bring upon you any noble feeling. John Ruskin

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Performing acts of love and kindness is never wasted time

• Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. Barbara De Angelis
• No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop
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Rest and leisure is not wasted time …

• Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. J. Lubbock
• A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward. George Jean Nathan
• Sleep is not a waste of time. During sleep, a variety of biological processes take place that restore our bodies and minds. Nancy Foldvary-Schaefer
• The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. Bertrand Russell
• Never waste any time you can spend sleeping. Frank H. Knight
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… and can lead to great bursts of creativity

• I often joke with my audiences that I make most of my income on a ski pole. People smile but they get my point. You need to make time for your genius to flow. We get our creative bursts, those idea torrents that take our business and personal lives to the next level, while we are skiing or drinking coffee in a Starbucks or walking in the woods or meditation with a sunrise. Those pursuits are not a waste of time. Creativity comes when you are relaxed, happy and enjoying the moment. And when it comes, it brings ideas that rock your world. Robin Sharma
• Creativity is the residue of time wasted. Albert Einstein
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Here are more things that are never a waste of time

• I have never been in a natural place and felt that was a waste of time. I never have. And it’s a relief. If I’m walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile. Viggo Mortensen
• Time spent with a cat is never wasted. Colette

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Don’t waste energy for energy is essence of life

• Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy. Julia Cameron
• The energy of the mind is the essence of life. Aristotle
• We live as ripples of energy in the vast ocean of energy. Deepak Chopra
• Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen. Bill Bryson
• To maintain a powerful pulse in our lives, we must learn how to rhythmically spend and renew energy. Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
• Energy is simply the capacity to do work. Our most fundamental need as human beings is to spend and recover energy. Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
• A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it. William Frederick Book
• Energy: The capacity for work or vigorous activity; vigor; power. American Heritage
• Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time. Denis Waitley
• The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. Albert Schweitzer
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Don’t waste energy on fear

• Fear’s useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn’t: If it doesn’t, you’ve wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you’ve wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons. Sarah Rees Brennan
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Don’t waste energy on worry

• As a cancer survivor, I am very aware of how many wasted minutes I don’t have. The surest way to waste what is left of your life is to worry about what might happen or what might have been.  Shelley Hamlin
• An Italian poet said, ‘We live in a flash of light; evening comes and it is night forever.’ It’s only a flash and we waste it. We waste it with our anxiety, our worries, our concerns, our burdens. Anthony de Mello
• Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn’t you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn’t most of them turn out all right after all? Dale Carnegie
• Don’t waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you well assured that the right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it. Ralph Waldo Emerson  
• If you can fix the thing that worries you, then fix it, otherwise don’t waste precious time or energy on it. Colleen Grant
• There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. Mahatma Gandhi
• Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you. Oprah Winfrey
• Worry is pointless. It is wasted mental energy. Neale Donald Walsch
• Worry is just about the worst form of mental activity there is—next to hate, which is deeply self-destructive. Worry is pointless. It is wasted mental energy. It also creates bio- chemical reactions which harm the body, producing everything from indigestion to coronary arrest, and a multitude of things in between. Neale Donald Walsch
• Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced mental calisthenics as they do physical calisthenics, they would purge their brains of this foolishness. Arnold Bennett
• Fear of the future is a waste of the present.
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Don’t waste energy on guilt

• Guilt is the most useless of all erroneous behaviors. It is by far the greatest waste of emotional energy. Why? Because, by definition, you are feeling immobilized in the present over something that has already taken place, and no amount of guilt can ever change history. Wayne Dyer
• Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy. Emily Giffin
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Don’t waste energy on self-pity

• Self-pity embraces in its sweep the inability to accept hard luck or unexpected trouble as part of the game. Self- pity curls one up in the face of misfortune. Self-pity means wasted time where you should be fighting all the harder to swing your luck into the proper channel, or to force yourself over fate’s barricade. Grantland Rice
• Self-pity is like a dog eating its own vomit or a pig rolling around in its own waste. Keith Cameron
• Feeling sorry for yourself and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. Dale Carnegie
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Don’t waste energy comparing yourself with others

• Comparison is a slippery slop to envy and for the most part, envy wastes energy that could be put towards getting what you want or optimizing what you have. Danielle LaPorte
• Don’t waste your time in the race looking back to see where the other guy is or what the other guy is doing. It’s not about the other guy. It’s about what can you do. You just need to run that race as hard as you can. You need to give it everything you’ve got, all the time, for yourself. Oprah Winfrey
• In the race of life, don’t waste your energy and time trying to compare with others. Sometimes you are ahead, sometimes behind.  The race is long and in the end it’s only with your self. Rishika Jain
• We often waste too much time comparing ourselves to others, and wishing to be something we’re not. Everybody has their own strengths and weaknesses, and it is only when we accept everything we are, and aren’t, that we are able to become who we are capable of being.  Marc and Angel Chernoff
• How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. Marcus Aurelius
• Don’t waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. Mary Schmich
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Don’t waste energy on envy …

• To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have. , Ken S. Keyes
• Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Og Mandino
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… for you waste who you are by wanting to be someone else

• To dream of a person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
• To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are. Sven Goran Eriksson
• Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. Marilyn Monroe
• Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are. Kurt Cobain

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Don’t waste energy on anger

• It’s a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go. Bertrand Russell
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Don’t waste energy on revenge

• I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death. Lloyd Alexander
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Don’t waste energy on hatred

• Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Og Mandino
• Hatred is toxic waste in the river of life. Micron
• Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. Hannah More
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Don’t waste energy on blame

• All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. Wayne Dyer
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Don’t waste energy on regret

• Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.  Gian Carlo Menotti
• I wouldn’t waste a day, not an hour, not a moment. Take what you want and damn caution. Live, enjoy. Feed ravenously. Or the biggest regret you’ll have at the end of your life is wasted time. Nora Roberts
• Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can’t build on it it’s only good for wallowing in. Katherine Mansfield
• Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting. Arthur Brisbane
• Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. Mason Cooley
• Regret is an appalling waste of energy…you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in. Katherine Mansfield
• We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; We sit by old tombs in the dark too long. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. Euripides
• If you live your life in the past, you waste the life you have to live. Jessica Cress
• Don’t waste any time mourning – organize! Joe Hill
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Having purpose and intent stops you wasting energy

• They know how to work without waste of energy. In order to get the best that is within themselves, they learn to eliminate from their thoughts and actions everything which subtracts from their purposes. Walter Russell
• Too much action with too little intent makes for wasteful exertion of energy and the confusion between movement and progress. Steve Maraboli
• You will wake up every morning with a limitless reservoir of energy and enthusiasm. All your thoughts will be focused on your definite objective.. You won’t have time to waste time. Valuable mental power will, therefore, not be wasted on trifling thoughts. You will automatically erase the worry habit and become far more effective and productive. Interestingly, you will also have a deep sense of inner harmony, as if you are somehow being guided to realize your mission. It is a wonderful feeling. Per Robin
• Without goals and purpose, genius wastes its effort.
• Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies. Lord Chesterfield Stanhope
• The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. William Cowper
• Purpose,  Intention

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Discovering what you want stops you wasting energy

• Discovering what you really want saves you endless confusion and wasted energy Stuart Wilde
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Humility stops you wasting energy

• A humble man can do great things with an uncommon perfection because he is no longer concerned about accidentals, like his own interests and his own reputation, and therefore, he is no longer needing to waste his efforts in defending them. Thomas Merton
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Waste does much damage to the environment

• A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, and such a society is a house built upon sand. Dorothy L. Sayers
• From my travels around the world I have seen how much damage and pollution is done by the careless disposal of waste. It is also evident that we in the West produce far more and throw away far more than the developing world, almost without thinking.  Michael Palin
• Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste. George Perkins Marsh
• Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better. Nicholas Stern
• Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. Henry David Thoreau
• To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. Theodore Roosevelt
• Why do we send valuable items like aluminium and food waste to landfill when we can turn them into new cans and renewable energy? Why use more resources than we need to in manufacturing? We must now work together to build a zero waste nation – where we reduce the resources we use, reuse and recycle all that we can and only landfill things that have absolutely no other use. Hilary Benn
• What we call ‘economic growth’ is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat.  Satish Kumar
• Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products. W. R. Inge
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We need an economy based on thrift and conserving, not waste

• We do need a ‘new economy,’ but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess and waste. An economy based on waste is inherently and hopelessly violent, and war is its inevitable by-product. We need a peaceable economy. Wendell Berry
• What we call ‘economic growth’ is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat.  Satish Kumar
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Suffering is a waste of happiness

• I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.  Colette
• If pain doesn’t lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering. Katerina Stoykova Klemer
• There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness. Katerina Stoykova Klemer
• You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. Ruth E. Renkl
• Depression, as far as I’m concerned, is just a waste of time. Helen Reddy
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Haste creates waste

• A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. Henry David Thoreau
• Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Henry David Thoreau
• Haste makes waste. John Heywood
• Over haste makes certain waste. Proverb
• Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.  Benjamin Franklin
• Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written. Charles A. Stoddard
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Life is too short to waste it on speed

• Walking takes longer… than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. Edward Abbey
• Life is already too short to waste on speed. Edward Abbey
• I have no time to be in a hurry. Henry David Thoreau
• There is more to life than increasing its speed. Mohandas K. Gandhi

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A day without laughter is a day wasted

• A day without laughter is a day wasted. Charlie Chaplin
• The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed. Sebastien Chamfort
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• A dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste. Jules Carlysle
• Committee: A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.
• Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous? Bill Watterson
• Desk: A wastebasket with drawers   Wall Street Journal
• Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.  Marian Keyes
• I believe that every human has a finite amount of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. Neil Armstrong
• I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted. George Best
• Life’s a waste of time, time’s a waste of life so let’s all get wasted and have the time of our life.
• Well, this day was a total waste of makeup.
• Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. George Bernard Shaw
• Why waste your time looking up your family tree? Just go into politics, and your opponents will do it for you. Mark Twain
• Don’t waste time trying to break a man’s heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place. Helen Rowland
• Freedom’s enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing. William Arthur Ward
• Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I’ll waste no time reading it. Moses Hadas
• The best way to fill time is to waste it. Marguerite Duras
• Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency. Raymond Chandler
• He’s so small, he’s a waste of skin. Fred Allen
• “The worst waste of breath, next to playing a saxophone, is advising a son. Kin Hubbard
• Ninety percent I’ll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I’ll probably waste.

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