Quotes Tagged "time"

Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?

Above a certain level of income, the relative value of material consumption vis-a-vis leisure time is diminished, so earning a higher income at the cost of working longer hours may reduce the quality of your life. More importantly, the fact that the citizens of a country work longer than others in comparable countries does not necessarily mean that they like working longer hours. They may be compelled to work long hours, even if they actually want to take longer holidays.

Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.

Time doesn't heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them.

For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first photographic implements were related to techniques of cabinetmaking and the machinery of precision: cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.

Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.

Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.

There is so little time. We need to make every moment count.

As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (“The Face of the Skies”)

Most of us take for granted that time flies, meaning that it passes too quickly. But in the mindful state, time doesn't really pass at all. There is only a single instant of time that keeps renewing itself over and over with infinite variety.

Day is just a collection of hours.

...the only difference between a young person at the height of their exuberance and a very old person who is frail and physically wasted is time.

One who gossips usually carries boredom in one hand and bitterness in the other.

I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.

We have to forego some good things in order to choose others that are better or best because they develop faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and strengthen our families.

They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that's taken my tomorrow, and turned them into yesterday.

Time doesn't stop or give warning. It simply ticks along, marking time, ignoring humanity.

Is déjà vu actually the specter of false timelines that never happened but did, casting their shadows upon reality?

Understand one thing – the time is the only actual currency you have. Even though it might be daunting for some people, it’s the ultimate truth.

Миналото е въпрос на тълкуване. Бъдещето е илюзия. Светът не се движи като по права черта през времето и не върви от миналото към бъдещето. Обратното, времето се движи на безкрайни спирали през и вътре в нас. Вечността не е безкрайно време, тя е безвремие. Ако искаш да постигнеш вечно просветление, премахни от съзнанието си миналото и бъдещето и живей в настоящия миг.