Quotes About Time

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Modern man thinks he loses something—time—when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it." Fromm was right; people didn't use extra time earned to relax or connect with friends or family. Instead, they tried to cram more in.

You'll turn thirty or forty or fifty anyway, whether your hours are finished or not," she said. "What does it matter what age you are when that happens? Either way, you won't get today back.

She hadn't expected to experience this pleasure in her grief, to find it invigorating, in a way. But even as she's dying, she's realized, life goes on—even as the cancer invades her body, she still checks Twitter. At first she thought, Why would I waste even ten minutes of the time I have left checking Twitter? And then she thought, Why wouldn't I? I like Twitter!

Half my life is over, I would say, seemingly out of nowhere, in our very first session—and Wendell would jump right on this. He was picking up where my internship supervisor had left off years earlier. You won't get today back. And the days were flying by.

There's an unspoken irony to all of this. People wanted a speedy solution to their problems, but what id their moods had been driven down in the first place by the hurried pace of their lives? They imagined they were rushing now in order to save their lives later, but so often, later never came.

Modern man thinks he loses something—time—when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it." Fromm was right;

You won't get today back.

Modern man thinks he loses something—time—when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill

They imagined that they were rushing now in order to savor their lives later, but so often, later never came.

people didn't use extra time earned to relax or connect with friends or family. Instead, they tried to cram more in.

Late-in-life love has the benefit of being especially forgiving, generous, sensitive — and urgent.

She is the keeper of all these names and numbers now, numbers she once knew by heart, numbers and addresses her children no longer remember.

Procrastination is a form of punishment

every few minutes. Harrington did it

The great tragedy is that knowledge-even incomplete-comes late.

For ninety minutes now she had been listening to the Story of Kevin. Ninety minutes was the length of an entire film. She could have watched Anna Karenina and been less depressed.

Instinct told him that all he could do for the moment was stay cool and play the waiting game. It wouldn't be easy but he'd manage it if it killed him.

day when we were young and lovely.

None of us knows how long any one of us has left. It could be fifty hours, could be fifty years. We're just glad we're here today. And we won't forget those who aren't.

The simple rule: some get saved, but most don't. The choices are important before the years begin to go so very fast.

Time itself is cyclic, and by the spiral of its returning seasons we review the progress and growth of our own understanding.

Today is the last day of some of your life. Don't waste it. quote from Tara Daniels

There is no snooze button on life - Tara Daniels