Quotes About Time

This "moment-spotting" habit can be unnatural. In organizations, for instance, we are consumed with goals. Time is meaningful only insofar as it clarifies or measures our goals. The goal is the thing.

Can our actions change our destiny? Or are they like sand piled against the breakage in a dam, merely delaying the inevitable?

Most of all, I understood that things happen to us for many complicated reasons, arising from both the past and the future.

It feels as though it were just yesterday Grandfather exited my life like a bullet, leaving a bleeding hole behind.

This is the nature of sorrow; often it fades with time, but once in a while it remains lodged below the surface of things, a stubborn thorn beneath a fingernail, making itself felt every time you brush against it. (How well I knew this, for random events would startle me into the memory of a pair of ancient eyes.)

He never wasted time, Ram, especially on things he believed he couldn't change.

As for being pawns," Krishna was saying, "aren't we all pawns in the hands of Time, the greatest player of them all?

I would approach the problem aslant. No matter what my father's intention, I could still make Arjun's heart beat faster. I could still influence how he thought. Perhaps Time was the master player. But within the limits allowed to humans in this world the sages called unreal, I would be a player, too.

aren't we all pawns in the hands of Time, the greatest player of them all?

days slow as cattle grazing in a parched summer field.

again: Let the past go. Be at ease. Allow the future to arrive at its own pace, unfurling its secrets when it will.

Spices why must you always compare. Each desire in the world is different, as is each love. You who were born in the world's dawning know this far better than I. Answer. Weigh it yourself: To him I will give one night, to you the rest of my life, whatever you choose it to be, one hundred years on the island or a single moment, conflagration and consuming, in Shampati's fire.

At an earlier time, she would have read into these gestures what she longed for; now she is grateful and resigned.

He who binds to himself a Joy Doth the wingèd life destroy; But he who kisses the Joy as it flies Lives in Eternity's sunrise.

fashion wasn't as important to me as to Urmila. There would be time enough to wear my mother's saris. And in any case Ram's eyes were on me all the time, too.

How, without detaching ourselves from the spell of the past, can we focus fully on the moment that faces us?

Every person is evolving, and evolution implies process, time and mistakes.6 Once a person realizes that everybody makes mistakes and that this is part of the natural process of spiritual evolution, forgiving others and also one's self becomes easy. Once there is forgiveness, inner healing and physical healing occur.

Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression--how long before the pot boiled over.

He too, it seemed, had come to believe that he could somehow escape history. That it was possible, and even desirable, to live in a perpetual present.

The problem with mango plucking is the fruit falls too quickly; and harvest season is over far too soon.

Mi familia me ha procurado una alegría insuperable, y debo deciros, hijos míos, que ninguno de vosotros me ha causado ni un minuto de angustia, salvo por razones de salud [...] Cuando erais muy pequeños me procuraba un gran deleite jugar con vosotros, y me inspira cierta pena que esa época haya desaparecido para siempre.

You live long enough, every day is the anniversary of some thing.

And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.

Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.