Quotes About Time

A profession is like a great snake that wraps itself around you. Once you are enwrapped, you are in a slow fight for the rest of your life, and the lightness of youth leaves you. You don't have time, for example, to think about the city even as you are walking through it.

battle—a sense that time does not exist, that he himself was of no account, that all things were connected and orchestrated far beyond human will, and that the world was saturated with beauty no matter what the loss.

I have three hooves in the pasture and one already in the grave, but I have a few things more to tell before I get to the smoke and thunder.

Time however can be easily overcome; not by chasing the light, but by standing back far enough to see it all at once.

Throughout my life, there has always been a number that sounded old. When I was sixteen, it was twenty-seven; at twenty-nine, it was forty-two; at thirty-eight, it was fifty-two. At sixty-five, however, it was sixty-five.

It's funny how we think life works a certain way because of TV and movies. Most people don't really think about how scripts are edited and how people get to practice their lines and rehearse. If one doesn't get it right they get to redo the scene until they do. In real life what's missing or not working only comes up when we're going along full blast. We end up being the editors of our lives only while we're running in real time.

Nature may have even less patience than politicians.

the story of a quest for wealth, given enough time, will always seem like the vain pursuit of a mirage.

The hours you spent reading this really do represent an irrevocable loss for you. You can never get that time back. That part of your life is gone forever. I'm profoundly grateful to you for that.

There is no tomorrow, only a string of todays. Still

Since speed and confidence are the traits of success we are taught to strive with, it takes added courage to welcome time and humility into our lives.

Once waking into the realization that eternity is waiting in every moment, I discovered that wealth is time, not money.

Just as a life is made of days, so are days made of moments. A life well lived is firmly planted in the sweet soil of moments. Mark Nepo is a gardener in this soil; he plants seeds of grace that grow only in the soil of loving attention and mindful time. We receive the deepest blessings of life when we fall in love with such moments—and Mark shows us how to fall in love deeply and with abandon.

Live slow enough and there is only the beginning of time.

It takes just about the same amount of time to be a nice guy as it does to be a jerk.

Taliban: Americans have all the watches, but we have all the time.

Each Christian needs half an hour of prayer each day, except when we are busy…then we need an hour. —Saint Francis de Sales

Death is the Mother of Beauty

No ship can out sail death

History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!

There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.

How we spend our days is how we spend our lives.