Quotes About Time

Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?

Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time.

Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite can be just as true: A month or year can zoom by in what feels like no time at all.

Patience is important not only in waiting for the right time to start a relationship, but also in allowing it to unfold at a healthy pace. Impatience rushes everything. It urges us to skip the time and attention a healthy friendship requires and to jump straight into emotional and physical intimacy.

When we define our happiness by some point in the future, it will never arrive. We'll keep waiting until tomorrow. If we allow impatience to govern us, we will miss the gift of the moment. We'll arrive at that point in time we expected to provide fulfillment and find it lacking.

Tell me all the things I'm going to forget." "With every person it's different." "Will I forget to love you?" "I hope not." "Don't let me forget to love you.

This ending of this love, while short, is like a paper cut. You get so caught up in the story that you are uncovering that you fail to see the edge begin to bite. It cuts deep and it stings no better than the last time but in a week or two, you will forget that it even happened;

A man of 97, unless he is a fool, has no message . 100 years

There are no poetry enshrined freighters on the sea now. It is a prosy life when we have no time to bid one another good morning.

The sea was confused and treacherous. In such a time as this the old fisherman prayed, 'Remember Lord, my ship is small and thy sea is so wide.

He concluded his speech by citing an old parable, of an Eastern monarch who charged his wise men to invent a sentence that would apply to all times and in all situations. The wise men returned with "And this too shall pass away.

Today, many people not only take the self for granted but struggle mightily to connect it to anything larger. In Lincoln's time, the idea of the self had the power—tinged with uncertainty, even with danger—of something emerging and ascending.

There was beauty to be seen if one simply took the time to behold it. The past was not greater than the present.

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

When the time comes, your best bet is to get her into a routine that makes her comfortably drowsy.

I've been in plenty of situations where someone I'm dating had more time for a console than me.

The greatest gift you can give someone is your time. Spend it wisely and generously.

Life is too short to waste time on negative people and situations. Surround yourself with positivity and gratitude.

My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering.

Only for some of us, maybe forgiveness is more a journey than a moment in time. Me, I won't be getting there fast.

Life is so short," I said sighing, "the past so long. Shouldn't we turn the page and move on?" "The past is the future," Aunt Emily shot back

What else would anyone want to know? Personality: Tense. Is that past or present tense? It's perpetual tense.

He could almost taste the tang of that swampy air right here in his own desert parking lot and hear the calls of the heavily beating flock, sorrowing and apologizing and making plans for some other time. Time. He realized that crows had always reminded him of time, dark time. He gazed at the backs of his hands, at the plummy dark repellent veins.