Quotes About Time

The bittersweet side of appreciating life's most precious moments is the unbearable awareness that those moments are passing. — MARC PARENT, Believing It All

When we spend our lives waiting until we are perfect or bulletproof before we walk into the arena, we ultimately sacrifice relationships and opportunities that may not be recoverable. We squander our precious time and we turn our backs on our gifts- those unique contributions that only we can make. Perfect and bulletproof are seductive but they don't exist in the human experience.

If creativity is seen as a luxury or something we do when we have spare time, it will never be cultivated.

Perfectionism is more about perception than internal motivation, and there is no way to control perception, no matter how much time and energy we spend trying.

We all conspire and confabulate, and sometimes the consequences appear to be negligible. But I would argue that they're not. I would argue that conspiring can become a destructive pattern over time, and sometimes a single confabulation can damage our sense of

I am mindful of other people's time.

Permanence can be tough for me, so I've developed the habit of asking myself, "I'm really scared, worried, overwhelmed, stressed about what's happening. Will this issue be a big deal in five minutes? Five hours? Five days? Five months? Five years?

The bittersweet side of appreciating life's most precious moments is the unbearable awareness that those moments are passing.

from the moment we're born until the day we die.

Grief does not obey your plans, or your wishes. Grief will do whatever it wants to you, whenever it wants to. In that regard, Grief has a lot in common with Love. — ELIZABETH GILBERT

betrayal usually happens long before the other ones. I'm talking about the betrayal of disengagement. Of not caring. Of letting the connection go. Of not being willing to devote time and effort to the relationship.

The human spirit is resilient, and just as we can reclaim our ability to breathe and feel and think, we can rebuild the bones that anguish rips away. But it takes help and time.

Boredom is the uncomfortable state of wanting to engage in satisfying activity, but being unable to do it. When we're bored we experience a lack of stimulation, time seems to pass very slowly, and if we're working on tasks, they seem to lack challenge and meaning.

this betrayal usually happens long before the other ones. I'm talking about the betrayal of disengagement. Of not caring. Of letting the connection go. Of not being willing to devote time and effort to the relationship.

In today's culture—where our self-worth is tied to our net worth, and we base our worthiness on our level of productivity—spending time doing purposeless activities is rare. In fact, for many of us it sounds like an anxiety attack waiting to happen. We

Cuando nos pasamos la vida esperando ser perfectos o inmunes antes de salir al ruedo, sacrificamos relaciones y oportunidades que quizá sean irrecuperables, derrochamos nuestro valioso tiempo y tal vez le damos la espalda a nuestras aptitudes, a esas contribuciones únicas que sólo nosotros podemos hacer.

I can safely say that I've never done anything meaningful in my life that wasn't hard and that did not take time. Integrity is a big one—the perception of a lack of it, or even of a tendency to cut corners, creates instant wariness.

There's a terrible pattern in organizations in which leaders turn to their teams, or their investors, or their board, and say "You need to trust me." Typically, that happens in a moment of crisis, when it is far too late. Trust is the stacking of small moments over time, something that cannot be summoned with a command

When we spend our lives waiting until we're perfect or bulletproof before we walk into the arena, we ultimately sacrifice relationships and opportunities that may not be recoverable, we squander our precious time, and we turn our backs on our gifts, those unique contributions that only we can make.

Since keeping a distance hadn't stopped him from thinking about her, he'd abandoned his campaign of avoidance for a new tack-spend as much time with her as possible in the hope that she would want him as much as he wanted her.

The past can only be accepted. It can't be forgotten, edited or erased. And it can never be changed. Anonymous

PUT THE PIECES TOGETHER "Now is the moment you've been waiting for. Some have been waiting their entire lives. It is time to put your dress together. It is time to prepare for the future." —Excerpted from Creating the Illusion by Madame Michel, Paris, 1954 Forty-Nine The bride

El tiempo cura las heridas. Y cuando las heridas resultaron menos dolorosas, el amor seguía allí, más fuerte todavía que antes.

the first thing you learn about desire is that it does not wear down with time. there comes a time when you can no longer get your pleasure but the desire stays with you— a dampish kind of feeling beneath the armpits at the back of the tongue. — Brenda Marie Osbey, from "Desire and Private Griefs" All Saints (Louisiana State University Press, 1997)