Quotes About Time

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.

It takes only five minutes to look nice before you go out.

Thus we are sucked away into the future—and we are incapable of actually living one minute of life.

The past no longer is, the future is not yet here; there is only one moment in which life is available, and that is the present moment.

Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person you are with, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future?

The Buddha said, "The past no longer exists, and the future is not yet here." There is only a single moment in which we can truly be alive, and that is the present moment

The art of dwelling happily in the present moment is the practice most needed in our time.

WHERE WILL WE BE Being angry in the historical dimension I close my eyes and look deeply: Three hundred years from now where will you be and where shall I be?

Buddha said, "The past no longer exists, and the future is not yet here." There is only a single moment in which we can truly be alive, and that is the present moment. Being present in the here and now is our practice.

The fourth notion to be removed is life span. We think that we exist only from this point in time until this point in time, and we suffer because of that notion. If we look deeply, we will know that we have never been born and we will never die. A wave is born and dies, is higher or lower, more or less beautiful. But you cannot apply these notions to water. When we see this, our fear will suddenly vanish.

Although not yet here, the future is already producing ghosts which haunt us. In fact, these ghosts are not produced by the future or the past. It is our consciousness which creates them. The past and the future are creations of our consciousness.

The orange tree took time to create this masterpiece.

Angry in the ultimate dimension I close my eyes and look deeply. Three hundred years from now Where will you be and where shall I be?

We all worked, but we didn't work all day. There was time for us to study the sutras, practice writing, listen to the teachings given by our teacher, chant, and meditate. Most important was meditation. My teacher taught that meditation was the door to understanding, and the career of monks and nuns.

When you wake up in the morning, while you're still in bed, you can start the day with a mindful breath. Take that moment, first thing, to follow your breathing in and out and be aware that you have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. This is a gift of life!

The past is an object of our study, of our meditation, but the way to study it or meditate on it is by remaining anchored in the present moment.

The past is still here in the form of the present. We may think that there isn't anything we can do about the past anymore, but there is.

Remember the words of the Buddha, "The past no longer exists, and the future is not here yet." The only moment in which you can be truly alive is the present moment. The present moment is the destination, the point to arrive at. Every time you breathe in and take a step, you arrive: "Breathing in, I arrive. Breathing out, I arrive.

We may spend our lives chasing after wealth, status, influence, and sensual pleasures, thinking they will improve the quality of our life. And yet we end up not having any time left to live.

To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow.

Vive el momento presente. Sólo el presente es la vida. No te apegues al futuro.

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus said, "You can never bathe in the same river twice.

Como decía el Buda: «El pasado ya se ha ido y el futuro todavía no ha llegado. Solo existe un momento en el que podemos acceder a la vida y ese momento es el presente».

Remember that there is only one important time and that is now.