Quotes About Time

La ilusión de una morada en el tiempo es el deseo de hombres y mujeres. La esperanza y el instante de la felicidad, únicos asideros para vivir esta errancia sin fin. Y la cultura, para muchos, la salvación de toda tragedia: vivir en cualesquiera de los géneros teatrales, pero no vivir muerto.

Human love is the union of two beings subject to time and its accidents: change, sickness, death. Although it does not save us from time, it opens it a crack, so that in a flash love's contradictory nature is manifest: that vivacity which endlessly destroys itself and is reborn, which is always both now and never. Therefore all love, even the most blissful, is tragic. —Octavio Paz, The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism (Ecco; First edition, June 1, 1996)

a cut cannot heal, unless you leave it alone. I'll open mine daily, leaving bones exposed

There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories: those precious moments so much like pebbles on the beach that are plucked from the white sand and placed in tiny boxes that lay undisturbed on tall shelves until one day they spill out and time repeats itself, with joy and sweet sadness, in the child now an adult.

Kesabaran adalah kekuasaan. Pergunakanlah untuk memupuk semangat, meredakan kemarahan, meredam angkara murka, mengubur rasa iri, menekan kesombongan, menahan lidah, mengekang tangan, sampai tiba waktunya anda memanen seluruh hasilnya.

If I waste today I destroy the last page of my life.

Cherish each hour of this day for it can never return.

Time teaches all things to him who lives forever but I have not the luxury of eternity.

to have goals without a plan and a time limit was as useless as having no goals at all.

Therefore, each hour of this day will I cherish for it can never return.

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live," Marcus Aurelius

I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darknness.

So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons ago.

So great was the mass of information forced upon the student, that he had no time to think of the mutual implications of the various branches of his knowledge.

Experience teaches us in a millennium what passion teaches us in an hour.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

The Bible says there is a time for peace and a time for war. Now is the time for war. I cannot wait to say it is now a time for peace. — MAJ James Brisson, Chaplain, 1-160th SOAR, 19 October 2001, Afghanistan

We have nothing to do but listen,' said Harriet, and she suddenly realized how happy she was here with Guy, come out of his seclusion to be a companion of this freedom that, having neither past nor future, was a lacuna in time; a gift of leisure that need only be accepted and enjoyed.

Ser moderno é tratar de sabotar os lugares-comuns de seu tempo. Programa complexo: o nosso tende a não passar de uma proliferação de lugares comuns. O espírito de época, se pudermos chamar assim, é uma montagem sem pé nem cabeça de lugares-comuns.

I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.

Balance lives in the present.

And since your brainstem can't tell time, or know that many years have passed, it activates the stress response and you have a full-blown threat response. You feel and act as if you are under attack. Your brainstem can't say, 'Hey, don't get so stirred up, Korea was thirty years ago. That sound was simply a motorcycle backfiring.

only moment you have for certain. I hope you aren't so wrapped up in nonessential stuff that you forget to really enjoy yourself—because this moment is about to be over.