Quotes About Time

For liberalism is a delicate thing. It encompasses so much -- constitutional government, democratic elections, freedom of worship, civil rights, free trade -- that we think of it as timeless and universal. But liberalism came into being in a real place and time, like a flame it has wavered in various eras, and it can be snuffed out.

Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.

What became of the friends I hadWith whom I was always so closeAnd loved so dearly?

Clement, shook his head in amusement. "I did that exactly forty seconds

Some of us come here as shooting stars, to shine brightly for only the briefest moment, and others of us come and overstay our welcome, living to a ripe old age and forgetting our own names.

If I cannot give my children a perfect mother I can at least give them more of the one they've got--and make that one more loving. I will be available. I will take time to listen, time to play, time to be home when they arrive from school, time to counsel and encouerage.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

What color is time? Where do the thoughts of the dead go? How is it diseases spread but miracles don't? Have you ever thought of that?

You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.

Time had no meaning, save that it was running out.

Con el tiempo notamos que de la quietud y la confianza nace nuestra fortaleza, porque vez tras vez encontramos allí todo lo que necesitamos para sustentarnos.

It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing.

It had been an occasion for reminiscing, but there are limits. And so my childhood falls into a black hole.

All we truly know when we wake up in the morning is that we have the day in front of us to live.

Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!

I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you. A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.

But memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.

What if I travel so far away in my dreams that I can't get back in time to wake up?

The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist ? It feels like it exists, but where is it ? And if it did exists, but doesn't now, then where did it go ?

Both life and death manifest in every moment of existence. Our human body appears and disappears moment by moment, without cease, and this ceaseless arising and passing away is what we experience as time and being. They are not separate. They are one thing, and in even a fraction of a second, we have the opportunity to choose, and to turn the course of our action either toward the attainment of truth or away from it. Each instant is utterly critical to the whole world.

For the time being Words scatter Are they fallen leaves?

And if you decide not to read anymore, hey, no problem, because you're not the one I was waiting for anyway. But if you decide to read on, then guess what? You're my kind of time being and together we'll make magic!

For the time being, the entire earth and the boundless sky.