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Quotes About Time

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof
~ Sharon Kay Penman
Five years is a long time to grieve, Llewelyn said at last, and Davydd shook his head. Grief heals, he said. Guilt does not.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
for each age interprets the past in the light of its own biases.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
time making the gesture perfunctory
~ Sharon Kay Penman
Fretting about time's passing will not slow it down one whit.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
A gain I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to men of skill but time and chance happen to them all.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
We can only speak the truth that we know at the time it is known.
~ Sharon Lee
Youth is a circumstance that time corrects, and error teaches us to err again along a different vector.
~ Sharon Lee
Why would you take a drug that is guaranteed to kill you in forty years? One reason, right? It's the only thing that will stop you dying tomorrow.
~ Sharon Moalem
Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
~ Sharon Salzberg
We cannot instantaneously force ourselves to forgive—and forgiveness happens at a different pace for everyone and is dependent on the particulars of any given situation.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can't be rushed or engineered.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Balance The Stress Factor The Beauty of Mental Space Emotional Intelligence Take A Breath Negative Emotions Time and Priorities Boundaries A Culture of Wellness
~ Sharon Salzberg
in this world is a revolutionary act because true happiness depends upon a revolution in ourselves. It is a radical change of view that liberates us so that we know who we are most deeply and can acknowledge our enormous ability to love. We are liberated by the truth that every single one of us can take the time and pay attention; we
~ Sharon Salzberg
When emotions are long held and extremely complex, it sometimes takes years for them to enter fully into awareness.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Our minds tend to race ahead into the future or replay the past, but our bodies are always in the present moment.
~ Sharon Salzberg
When we constantly hear that we should be smarter, better connected, more productive, wealthier—it takes real courage to claim the time and space to follow the currents of our talents, our aspirations, and our hearts, which may lead in a very different direction.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Was' and 'is' – in English there is very little difference between these two words. Only one letter more , just two letters different. But it is a lifetime, it is a world of difference. Time does not allow you to take the past along with you. Nothing remains unchanged. Love gets diluted, hate is forgotten and friendship and enmity keep shifting all the time. One day, when you look back, you will ask yourself – what was it all about.
~ Shashi Deshpande
We carry with us the weight of the past, and because we do not have a finely developed sense of history and historicism, it is a past that is still alive in our present. We wear the dust of history on our foreheads, and the mud of the future on our feet.
~ Shashi Tharoor
Time is depicted in hymns in the Atharva Veda as perpetually replenishing itself from a full vessel which, in spite of all efforts, can never be emptied. Since time transcends time, it is without beginning or end, without limit; and in that sense it is like God. 'Time am I, world-destroying,' says Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita, stressing 'I am imperishable Time'.
~ Shashi Tharoor
The past is not necessarily a guide to the future, but it does partly help explain the present. One cannot, as I have written elsewhere, take revenge upon history; history is its own revenge.
~ Shashi Tharoor
One cannot take revenge upon history; history is its own revenge
~ Shashi Tharoor
Time's up, Ladies. Let's go back inside. We can sit by the fire, hold hands, and sing Kumbaya, Seth called from the front porch. Fucker, Hammer muttered. I think we should beat his ass next, Liam muttered conspiratorially. Both men cracked a knowing grin. As if they'd read one another's minds, they raised their right arms and flipped Seth off, laughing. It felt good.
~ Shayla Black