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Quotes About Time

Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.
~ Oscar Wilde
I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
~ Patricia Highsmith
there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.
~ Raymond Carver
See that fella over there? He's 20 years old. In 10 years, he's got a chance to be a star. Now that fella over there, he's 20 years old, too. In 10 years he's got a chance to be 30.
~ Casey Stengel
I definitely need to use my chances when they come because definitely there wont be many.
~ Roger Federer
The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.
~ Andre Agassi
So, knowing what you know now, if you had the chance to go back to, say, '68, '70, would you do things differently?
~ Frank Zane
Take the first chance that you get, because you may never get another one.
~ Lil Wayne
Let us do something, while we have the chance! ... Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for one the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us!
~ Samuel Beckett
It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Anyone too busy to say thank you will get fewer and fewer chances to say it.
~ Harvey Mackay
The biggest thing I've learned is that you only have one chance. You only have today to live-but you gotta take it and make it the best you can
~ Bert McCracken
Tomorrow is not a promise, but a chance.
~ Rachel
Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.
~ Mark Twain
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
~ Pema Chodron
We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.
~ Pema Chodron
We're always in an intermediate state between the past and the future, between the memory of what happened before and the approaching experience that will soon become memory as well.
~ Pema Chodron
When people ask me how long this will take, I say, "At least until you die.
~ Pema Chodron
This starts with realizing that whatever occurs is neither the beginning nor the end. It is just the same kind of normal human experience that's been happening to everyday people from the beginning of time.
~ Pema Chodron
Estaba demasiado ocupada para ver el sol.» Ella se rió y me dijo: «¡Demasiado ocupada para vivir la vida!»
~ Pema Chodron
The key instruction is to stay in the present. Don't get caught up in hopes of what you'll achieve and how good your situation will be some day in the future. What you do right now is what matters.
~ Pema Chodron
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.
~ Pema Chodron
If you can't face living your life day by day, you must live it minute by minute.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald
I think one should never be too busy to teach those who are anxious to learn.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald