Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
Broken bones and torn muscles get healed, and so does the shattered soul. Let no failure halt you ever.
Time should reveal the truth about the magnitude of the dead and missing in the Florida hurricane Ian disaster.
He wished he could go back. But unfortunately, he knew it to be an impossibility—that time could only travel forward and the simplicity of his childhood would remain lost to the past.
Time is the empty space that allows knowledge—let alone wisdom—to grow.
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.
The great opposition to reading is what I allow to fill my time instead of reading. To say we have no time to read is not really true; we simply have chosen to use our time for other things, or have allowed our time to be filled to the exclusion of reading. So don’t add reading to your to-do list. Just stop doing the things that keep you from doing it. But read.
The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours. God made eternity. Let us escape from the despotism of time altogether. These ancient and hereditary politenesses filled Nessim with emotion.
The Gods of the Stars created three Worlds, three parallel realities, far apart in time and space, but inextricably interlinked, worlds where all beings could live in peace and harmony with each other and with the earth they inhabited. The Gods of the Stars had great wisdom, they knew all the secrets of the universe, they certainly created other worlds and other beings in unknown realities, but this is a discourse that would take us too far…
I had lost some of my naivete and gained strength. These women with their pointless scheming could not contain me, and I watched the volatile world of the gynaeceum with a detached eye. The Forbidden City had buried my youth, and in the monastery, I had died and come back to life. Friends, enemies and mistresses had all disappeared. I was a ghost from a lost world, still going from one season to the next and still living for one man alone.
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
Out of an expanse of time, you carve a little area—that nobody asked you to carve—and you do something. 20
Are you selling your time or getting paid to learn, experiment, develop skills, and build your careers?
Do you know how many 12:13s I’ve watched pass without you? Tonight it’ll be the seven hundred and twentieth, I said, the words burning my throat. The last thing in the world I want is to say something that makes that number infinite, but I also can’t let you erase our history. I don’t want to remember the bad parts, but I refuse to forget the good.
I don’t have much time’ is a lousy excuse. There is always time, what we you don’t have is the skills to manage the time.
Look back on Time, with kindly eyes -He doubtless did his best -How softly sinks that trembling sunIn Human Nature’s West –
Maybe, all alone, your story is on the small side. Most stories, taken by themselves, can feel that way. Like how an island that stands alone in a huge sea can look small. But if you stop looking at that one island and instead see how it’s part of a whole archipelago, how the Pacific is filled with islands, then you might start to notice how big your story actually is. How much space and time and how many connections it covers.
In family relationships, ‘love’ is really spelled ‘t-i-m-e,’ time. Taking time for each other is the key for harmony at home.
Time remains the enemy; history must be spatialized. How? By seeing it as a circle, a wheel perpetually turning, the same events recurring again and again.
Question: how can one manage not to lose time? Answer: experience it at its full length. Means: spend days in the dentist‘s waiting-room on an uncomfortable chair; live on one‘s balcony on a Sunday afternoon; listen to lectures in a language that one does not understand; choose the most roundabout and least convenient routes on the railway (and, naturally, travel standing up); queue at the box-office for theatres and so on and not take one‘s seat; etc.
I’m totally vulnerable to all conditions of existence all the time, no matter where I go or how good I am. Really getting this deconditions me from illusion and entitlement. It’s a fast track to letting go of the ego. To say yes, to the conditions of existence liberates me. I face them directly rather than F.A.C.E them, with fear, attachment, control, and entitlement.
In certainty, the future relieves us, and in uncertainty, it leaves us distraught.
I’m definitely of the ‘Harry Potter’-transfigured-me-into-a-reader-and-writer generation. And that’s really all I read throughout my teen years, because I really devoted all my time to writing and reading friends’ fan-fiction.
If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. ~ Margaret Thatcher
On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.
One night I dreamed I was locked in my Father’s watchWith Ptolemy and twenty-one ruby starsMounted on spheres and the Primum MobileCoiled and gleaming to the end of spaceAnd the notched spheres eating each other’s rindsTo the last tooth of time, and the case closed.
My point is: maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there’s a tomorrow. Maybe for you there’s one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through your fingers. So much time you can waste it.But for some of us there’s only today. And the truth is, you never really know.
Einstein on time travel:People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.
Take your time to evaluate your life. If what you are doing now is not enough to keep your dream alive, pray for the wisdom and the audacity to see those dreams come alive.
Now, five years is nothing in a man’s life except when he is very young and very old…- Wang Lung
The world is so big, Rachel, Borne had said to me. It just keeps going and going.It ends eventually. I almost said, It gets smaller, but bit my tongue.
Nothing is easy in cricket. Maybe when you watch it on TV, it looks easy. But it is not. You have to use your brain and time the ball.
Whether you have time for what you love depends more on what you think of yourself than what the world thinks of you.
Around the age of 14, I was very discouraged from a coach. It was my first youth club team while playing soccer. She told me at the time that I wasn’t good enough to play on the team, that I would never get into the game.
I think we all do: I think we wonder if we’re supposed to be here, if we’re doing the right thing, if we even want to be here. At least, I do all the time.
Be it high or low, it doesn’t matter. I need to stay calm and neutral all the time.
At most, You exist for 80/90 years, and you don’t exist for ∞ – 80/90 Years. Do you think your existence makes any difference to the period you don’t exist? Assuming you were born for a noble and great purpose to do some great things is an idiotic self-consoling assumption. Your existence is worth absolutely nothing.
Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.
Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.
Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don’t keep space in your head for writing, you won’t write even if you have the time.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. If you can bend space you can bend time also, and if you knew enough and could move faster than light you could travel backward in time and exist in two places at once.
Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.
We live here. We lie in the Present’s unopenedSorrow; its limits are what we are.The prisoner ought never to pardon his cell.
Scars are a truly beautiful thing. Yes, they can be a little ugly on the outside, but scars show that you’re a survivor, that you made it through something, and not only did you make it through, but now you’re stronger and wiser and more educated because of that tough time that you went through.
It’s a misnomer to think that life will always remain the same. It’s not even healthy to think so. Time will always evince that there’s nothing permanent. Life will change.
Time is fluid, like the wide sky that fades into bright orange in a sunset in The Ozarks. Every moment is meant to be sipped and savored like a slow mimosa.
Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.
I long to grow up, to be a man. I long to be in a hurry to do something, before time runs out. I long for the feeling that life is precious, that I have to cram as much as I can into every sun-drenched day and every frost-filled night; to know that childhood is special because it does not last forever;
All we get is time and choices. Be wise with both. Time is finite, but the impact of your choices can be infinite, the choices you make can alter everything. Time passes, but choices define the legacy you leave behind. Just remember that time and chance happens to every man.
To blame me in the past is a very future me thing to do. But what am I supposed to do, scapegoat someone else for my mistakes? Somebody needs to be held accountable, and it certainly won’t be the version of me in that moment.
Time is a canvas; paint your masterpiece with moments that matter.