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Quotes About Time

In this time of violence and disintegration, spiritual vision is not an elitist luxury but vital to our survival.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
The only thing we really have is nowness, is now.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
the greatest achievements take the deepest patience and the longest time.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
it just seemed as if she were marking time while life rocketed past.
~ Soheir Khashoggi
course of long observance
~ Solomon Northup
I grow old ever learning many things.
~ Solon
The empty beds of rivers fill again; Trees leafless now renew their vernal bloom; Returning moons their lustrous phase resume; But man a second youth expects in vain.*
~ Somadeva
Alphabets and numbers weren't learnt a day, it took u time to learn' em, such is life take ur time in what u do
~ Somy blaq
ZENITH NOON beats out on its solar anvil the rays of light
~ Sonia Delaunay
Your days still half-opened, crackle like the fires to come. Outside. The earth. Wind. Night. Unfold for you. Listen to their sounds. They have sung me seasons that never abandoned me.
~ Sonia Sanchez
death is a five o'clock door forever changing time.
~ Sonia Sanchez
Do we become so lost in the patterns and the rhythms in our everyday lives that we fool ourselves into believing they might somehow last forever?
~ Sonny Liew
Time crawled past on leaden hands and knees.
~ Sonya Hartnett
Just a few more minutes here, I suggest: life hates to leave, worried what it might miss. But Vernon, closer, is shaking his head. This is all.
~ Sonya Hartnett
I never do enjoy my breaks, long or short...I look forward to them intensely, but as soon as they begin, I can feel them starting to end. I feel the temporariness of my freedom, and find it hard to concentrate on anything other than the sensation of it trickling away.
~ Sophie Hannah
Seems to me there's not much time to read about other people's lives and live your own while you're at it. If I have to choose, and I reckon I do, I'll choose living my own life over reading summat about someone else's.
~ Sophie Hannah
I'm not convinced that stories from real life have beginnings and ends, as a matter of fact. Approach them from any vantage point and you'll see that they stretch endlessly back into the past and spread inexorably forward into the future. One is never quite able to say "That's that, then," and draw a line.
~ Sophie Hannah
Rowly's son, a murderer? Preposterous! He's the son of Rowland McCrodden! If you were the son of a man like that, Catchpool, would you take up murder as a way of passing the time?
~ Sophie Hannah
I left my scarf behind. You sent it on. I meant to buy and send a Thank You card But I forgot, and soon the year was gone And the year after that. My life was hard
~ Sophie Hannah
Trainers All Turn Grey (after Robert Frost's 'Nothing Gold Can Stay') You buy your trainers new. They cost a bob or two. At first they're clean and white, The laces thick and tight. Then they must touch the ground – (You have to walk around). You learn to your dismay Trainers all turn grey.
~ Sophie Hannah
memories of the past are not the past. They're thoughts you have in the present, about the past.
~ Sophie Hannah
Things happen. Things that you think you'll never get over. But you do. You move on. It gets better with time. You forget. Forgive. Whatever. Life goes on and you go on with it.
~ Sophie Jordan
People wait their whole lives for this. Sometimes half their lives pass before they find it. Sometimes they never do. They settle for something else. Or nothing at all. But we found each other now, Georgia. Do you know how lucky that makes us?
~ Sophie Jordan
Ahora podrás mirarte la mano en cualquier momento, incluso cuando yo no esté y lo sabrás. - ¿Sabré qué? - Que mi corazón es tuyo, que te amo.
~ Sophie Jordan