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Quotes About Time

Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.
~ Pablo Neruda
Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments.
~ Lin Yutang
Life is a matter of passing the time enjoyably. There may be other things in life, but I've been too busy passing my time enjoyably to think very deeply about them.
~ Peter Cook
How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.
~ Gerald Jampolsky
Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time.
~ Andrew Weil
We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.
~ Epicurus
Life's a long and winding ride, better have the right one by your side; And happiness don't drug its feet, time moves faster than you think.
~ Kip Moore
You will find joy, frustration and sorrow in your quest. Never forget that friendship and loyalty are more precious than riches...Happiness can be brief, but it knows no time in the land of dreams.
~ Brian Jacques
Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.
~ L. Frank Baum
Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present
~ Alan Watts
Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Giving up the center must not here be regarded as illogical. Was happiness no happiness because it endured for just a short time? One cannot always be happy.
~ Aron Nimzowitsch
Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!
~ Ivan Turgenev
Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind.
~ Paula McLain
Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.
~ Horace
Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.
~ Dennis Lehane
To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.
~ Lucian
If we are not happy and joyous at this season, for what other season shall we wait and for what other time shall we look?
~ Abdu'l-Bahá
Since eternity means happiness for you, what does it matter if some of these passing moments are unpleasant?
~ Pio of Pietrelcina
To fill the hour??that is happiness.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson