It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks are small. Never mind that the average sock knit out of sock-weight yarn contains about 17,000 stitches. Never mind that you need two of them. (That’s 34,000 stitches, for anybody keeping track.) Socks are only physically small. By stitch count, they are immense.
Time is one of the key projects you will ever have to manage in your lifetime. Do it with a dedicated heart.
Have you ever felt like you’re drowning Drowning in everything around youAnd when you scream deaf ears are evidentWhen you reach out for a hand everyone seems unaware Have you ever felt like thisLike every road you take leads to pure destruction And you can’t seem to find the right pathWhen all you really want to do is get away from everyone and everything Isolated
[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
THIS is your life! Right now! Are you living an honest life or trying to be what someone else thinks you should be? Choose your friends carefully, wisely and deliberately. Honor them with your time and love while you can.
Time takes no holiday. It does not roll idly by, but through our senses works its own wonders in the mind. Time came and went from one day to the next; in its coming and its passing it brought me other hopes and other memories. [quoted in Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo, p. 54]
Awakened to the crow of a rooster almost old enough to retire to a cooking pot.
The things that pertain to your destiny are bought with time; the way you spend your time determines what you become.
If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
As we look back in time with our marvelous telescopes, we are not viewing our current reality, we are viewing what was. As we sit in our local gravity pit, we are swimming within what is, wondering as to what will be.
Only in the created world is life and evolution possible in a real sense. Space creates distances and relations, and time is another type of measure. In this sense, the world would not be possible without space and time. The World beyond its “physical” realm is not measurable. Only things with form can exist, coexist, relate to one another, and have a duration.
It’s worth making time to find the things that really stir your soul. That’s what makes you really feel alive. You have to say ‘no’ to other things you’re used to, and do it with all your heart.
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
Had I realized at the time that for Austerlitz certain moments had no beginning or end, while on the other hand his whole life had sometimes seemed to him a blank point without duration, I would probably have waited more patiently.
Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster.
Abide with me; fast falls the eventide;The darkness deepens; Lord with me abide.When other helpers fail and comforts flee,Help of the helpless, O abide with me.Swift to its close ebbs out life’s little day;Earth’s joys grow dim; its glories pass away;Change and decay in all around I see;O Thou who changest not, abide with me.
Time isn’t a currency. You can’t save it, you can’t store it, and the rich certainly don’t have more of it. Time is a problem, a solution, a gift and a curse. It’s everything we have and don’t. The passage of time is somewhat of an illusion, and like an illusion, it depends on how you view it. But one thing is for certain, we must learn to enjoy what we have of it.
The only currency that we really have to spend during our lives is time. Everything else is just a sub-category.
…people change, even good people, if they get the wrong thing in their head. And not everything is always what it looks like and sometimes just because one person looks weak, they might be very strong, and another person might look like a spooky freak but he might be one of the kindest people you’d ever meet. And I guess I learned that time is slippery…We have to enjoy every second, love with all our hearts, all we can, while we can.
Time, Eddie had decided during this period, was in large part created by external events. When a lot of interesting shit was happening, time seemed to go by fast. If you got stuck with nothing but the usual boring shit, it slowed down. And when everything stopped happening, time apparently quit altogether. Just packed up and went to Coney Island. Weird but true.
If you want to preserve – I’m very serious now – if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That’s how dictators get started.
I’ve been thinking lately, maybe we do get new performances of the same day, opportunities to be more accepting and loving. Maybe practice, rehearsal, is also the way to freedom. We can start over. Time can loop back on itself, and here I am again with you, Margaret, trying.
Most of the time – 99 percent of the time – you just don’t know how and why the threads are looped together, and that’s okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes. And very, very rarely – by some miracle of chance and coincidence, butterflies beating their wings just so and all the threads hanging together for a minute – you get the chance to do the right thing.
Time is the only currency that can be spent but never saved; invest it wisely, for its return is your legacy.
Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
The lesson is that if people don’t understand you today, don’t change who you are. Just give them more time.
The Desoto Solar Farm had exploding electrical fuse problems by the time President Obama opened it.
We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.
If someone loves you, they should not be envious of you pouring your heart and soul and time and energy into the things that you are passionate about, but instead….they should love you MORE because you are so involved in those things.
Watching as the water moves along I am once again reminded of the endless passing of time, the cruelty of it, how curial and amazing is it that no moment can last forever, and thus we have to learn to live with our mortality,
Commitment to the rule of law provides a basic assurance that people can know what to expect whether what they do is popular or unpopular at the time.
For disappearing acts, it’s hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
Proud SongstersThe thrushes sing as the sun is going, And the finches whistle in ones and pairs, And as it gets dark loud nightingales In bushesPipe, as they can when April wears, As if all Time were theirs. These are brand-new birds of twelve-months’ growing, Which a year ago, or less than twain, No finches were, nor nightingales, Nor thrushes, But only particles of grain, And earth, and air, and rain.
If I think behind me, I might break. If I think forward, I lose now.Forever will be a day like thisStrung perfectly on the necklace of days.
After the war ends, Ukraine will be a predominantly female country for a long time.
In a world where others are very quick to waste other people’s time, be cautious all the time.
But I have learned that you can’t just create your own timetable and will it to come true.
I’m not ashamed of heroic ambitions. If man and woman can only dance upon this earth for a few countable turns of the sun… let each of us be an Artemis, Odysseus, or Zeus… Aphrodite to the extent of the will of each one.
Time is a funny thing. Once it’s gone, it’s gone. But then it passes onto someone else.
Even if you turn back the clock of the whole universe, you still can’t stop and evildoer from exercising his free will.
There are times that one treasures for all one’s life, and such times are burned clearly and sharply on the material of total recall. I felt very fortunate that morning.
I’ve been a Christian for a long time, and I think that Christianity gets a bad rap. I think that people’s perception of what a Christian is today is something that is close-minded and narrow, and that’s not what I am.
From time to timeI once wondered how one wanders from time to timeAnd think up the paradox lineSpeak of Epoch’s crimeOh I lied, it hasn’t happened yetBut bet you better believe it’s such a habit thatI just said that in a past mindset
There was a stare down between us that seemed to last for a small infinity. Like a lifetime of understanding was being lived in it.
Every minute, hour and hour that passes daily should be converted into product
You don’t have to live in the same time zone as others, you can live the 1960s while people are living the 2000s! You decide which time, which era you live in!
Yudhishthira,” said Krishna with a smile,“time flows on, day by day, and waits for no one.We do not know when we will meet our death.To hesitate, to turn away from dharma,Never prolongs life. But it costs a manHis honor – and that loss is worse than death.Do not divide your mind against itself Through doubt and paralyzing cogitation.The great man acts, as time demands of him.
The proper, wise balancing of one’s whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.
I think you will agree that life’s plans are not always tied up in neat little packages. Occasionally we find ourselves at unexpected crossroads with more than one opportunity from which to choose. Time itself is often the best indicator of which decision to make, for it can tell so many thing that are now hazy.
Rise and take back your power. Dedicate a good amount of your time to prayer.
Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.