Quotes About Time

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old. JAMES A. GARFIELD

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

Someone once said, People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. They forgot one other option: Some people come only to give us their contact information, let us know that we really need to get together sometime, and why don't we give them a call?

Nostalgia for what? Nostalgia is when you want things to stay as they were. I know so many people who stay in the same place. And I think, my God, look at them! They're dead before they die. Living is risking.

There are no office hours for leaders.

En sólo unos pocos años, cuando todo lo que perdurara de mí en esta tierra no fuera más que recuerdo y polvo, del monasterio no habría de quedar piedra sobre piedra.

Esperar. Otra vez. ¿Os habéis parado a contar cuánto tiempo perdemos en nuestra vida solo esperando algo?

Siempre. Del latín semper, significa "en todo momento". Y se preguntó si su madre pensaría de cuánto tiempo estaban hablando y qué ocurriría después. Porque es evidente que en algún momento las madres deben dejar de cuidar de sus hijos.

Cine crede c? timpul vindec? totul nu a avut niciodat? parte de r?ni profunde.

When I am reading a poem, I rarely feel alone in the room. The poet and I are together. It's as if the poet wrote a secret diary years ago.

Throughout our lives we miss opportunities to experience wonderful occurrences. It seems as though the excuse has to be lack of time. But we have choice as to our time is spent.

Aging people should know that their lives are not mounting and unfolding but that an inexorable inner process forces the contraction of life. For a young person it is almost a sin—and certainly a danger—to be too much occupied with himself; but for the aging person it is a duty and a necessity to give serious attention to himself.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place, and like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season in which we are born.

The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. (on being 36 yrs old)

However, we must not forget that it will be some twenty years before the ordinary run of people begin to think the thoughts of the educated person of today.

We cannot live in the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning- for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time....

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happy" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Mostly, they are deceptive sweetenings of existence, like speedier communications which unpleasantly accelerate the tempo of life and leave us with less time than ever before. Omnis festinatio ex parte diaboli est—all haste is of the devil, as the old masters used to say.

Prophets are always disagreeable and usually have bad manners, but it is said that they occasionally hit the nail on the head . . . like every true prophet, the artist is the unwitting mouthpiece of the psychic secrets of his time and is often as unconscious as a sleep-walker.

learned that the time after a major incident offered a period of safety and the best rest