Quotes About Time

The time had come for him to use a dangerous weapon. "Venerable," he said, "if the Emperor's manhood was destroyed, how is it that he begot a son and one so sturdy as the young Emperor?

In her mind she was comparing it with the face she had seen in this same mirror when she was sixteen.

and when the hour is come that has been set for each of us before ever we can walk or talk, then what need of mourning?

It had to do with the way women throughout time has known the feel of love when it came to them.

the life span of any particular emotion is only one and a half minutes. After that we have to revive the emotion and get it going again.

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more cheerful in the future, it's because of our aspiration and exertion to be cheerful in the present. What we do accumulates; the future is the result of what we do right now.

In this very brief time that we have on earth, we have to ask ourselves how we're going to spend our time. Will we keep increasing and strengthening our neurotic habits in our vain quest for some kind of lasting comfort and pleasure? Or will we make it a practice to step out into the learning zone?

Making good use of our limited time - the limited time from birth to death, as well as our limited time each day - is the key to developing inner steadiness and calm.

The most heartbreaking thing of all is how we cheat ourselves of the present moment.

The principle of nowness is very important to any effort to establish an enlightened society.

A fresh attitude starts to happen when we look to see that yesterday was yesterday, and now it is gone; today is today and now it is new. It is like that—every hour, every minute is changing. If we stop observing change, then we stop seeing everything as new. —DZIGAR KONGTRUL RINPOCHE T

The second reminder is impermanence. Life is very brief. Even if we live to be a hundred, it's very brief.

If you realize that you don't have that many more years to live and if you live your life as if you actually had only a day left, then the sense of impermanence heightens that feeling of preciousness and gratitude.

Some people take offense like it's a limited time offer.

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced sil

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds

Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.

I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

Time is the great art of man.