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I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.
It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.
When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before any one is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness.
The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.
Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.
Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.
My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.
Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.
There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.
one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.
God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.
The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.
There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
And because my teeth don't bite, I can take them out dancing I can take my little teeth out and show them a real good time
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.
So little time we live in Time, And we learn all so painfully, That we may spare this hour's term To practice for Eternity.
Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.
Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.
Live more and more in the Present, which is ever beautiful and stretches away beyond the limits of the past and the future.
Wasting time is worse than death, because death separates you from this world whereas wasting time separates you from Allah
Long hours trail in their purple and long years are lost in just this moment while our souls are near, our mouths separate.
Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years
If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.
When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter in time.
The timeless moment. - The "moment" has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost, Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways...
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.
Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost
Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.
We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.
Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street.
Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.
Any girl who was a lady would not even think of having such a good time that she did not remember to hang on to her jewelry.
If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem... break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.
We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.
Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.