Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
—Abraham Cowley (1618–67) English Poet, Essayist
The worst old age is that of the mind.
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English Essayist
Some of us are returning to sanity, because we’re tired of the pain. We’re in a hurry. No time to mess around.
—Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist
Hours have wings and fly up to the author of time and carry news of our usage. All our prayers cannot entreat one of them either to return or slacken its pace. The misspents of every minute are a new record against us in heaven. Sure if we thought thus we would dismiss them with better reports, and not suffer them to fly away empty, or laden with dangerous intelligence. How happy is it when they carry up not only the message but the fruits of good, and stay with the Ancient of Days to speak for us before his glorious throne.
—John Milton (1608–74) English Poet, Civil Servant, Scholar, Debater
Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.
—Ivan Turgenev (1818–83) Russian Novelist, Playwright
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
—Henri Bergson (1859–1941) French Philosopher, Evolutionist
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
—Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American Biographer, Novelist, Socialist
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.
—Leo Buscaglia (1924–98) American Motivational Speaker
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
—George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist
We have surface time, which is the time we move through every day, but we need to reach the rhythms of deep time. Like the ocean is all waves and movement on the surface, we need to sink through time to the depths where the true rhythm lies.
—John O’Donohue (1956–2008) Irish Priest, Hegelian Philosopher
The infinite is in the finite of every instant.
—Unknown
It’s a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.
—J. K. Rowling (b.1965) English Novelist
If you want work well done, select a busy man; the other kind has no time.
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher
The end crowns all; and that old common arbitrator, time, will one day end it.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
—Barbara De Angelis (b.1951) American Self-Help Author
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
—Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) French Sculptor
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
—Jim Bishop (1907–87) American Author, Journalist, Columnist
Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of producing almost anything, the time is ripe for opening the storehouse of infinite need!… It is the modern Pandora’s box, and its plagues are loose upon the world.
—Jules Henry (1904–69) American Anthropologist, Sociologist, Writer
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English Novelist
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
—John Archibald Wheeler (1911–2008) American Physicist
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
—Henry Ford (1863–1947) American Businessperson, Engineer
Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.
—French Proverb
So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person’s genius is confined to a very few hours.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Keep forever in view the momentous value of life; aim at its worthiest use—its sublimest end; spurn, with disdain, those foolish trifles and frivolous vanities, which so often consume life, as the locusts did Egypt; and devote yourself, with the ardor of a passion, to attain the most divine improvements of the human soul. In short, hold yourself in preparation to make the transition to another life, whenever you shall be claimed by the Lord of the world.
—John Foster Dulles (1888–1959) American Republican Public Official, Lawyer
Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.
—Frank Lane (1896–1981) American Sportsperson, Businessperson
There are whole years for which I hope I’ll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.
—Mignon McLaughlin (1913–83) American Journalist, Author
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright
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