Quotes About Time

Even though cultural changes cannot be measured on a day-to-day basis, changes that accrue over decades must be pursued daily.

Globalization, even if its nature and timing are still very much up for debate, has the salutary effect of challenging our most basic assumptions about space and time and therefore about society. The functioning of society depends on the regulation of space and time.

On a lazy Saturday morning when you're lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, there is a space where fantasy and reality become one. Are you awake, or are you dreaming? You see people and things; some are familiar; some are strange. You talk, you feel, but you move without walking; you fly without wings. Your mind and your body exist, but on separate planes. Time stands still. For me, this is the feeling I have when ideas come.

She looked at him gravely. "You cannot call back the river that has already flowed past you, Ruith. All you can do is be grateful for where you are in it.

He lifed his head and looked down at her seriously. "Could you," he began, then he had to clear his throat. "Could you learn to be fond of me?" he asked. "With enough time?" She looked at him in surprise. It was the first time in all their acquaintance that she'd heard him sound the least bit hesitant. "I don't need to learn anything," she said, before she thought better of it.

It was baffling to her that anyone would seek out a condition that consumed so much of one's reading time.

Knowledge of history frees us to be contemporary.

For me, paradise was the present

A good story makes a journey go by more quickly. A really good story makes you forget you are even on a journey.

Lenny's face was smiling, too. For a minute they were both ten years old. Time travel in real life.

Once history holds your hand, it never lets go. But it has an anxious grip and takes you places you couldn't expect.

No man, even if he is sixty yrs of age ought to live more than three months at a time from his family...

Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.

remember the decisions you make determine the schedule you keep. The schedule you keep determines the life you live. And how you live your life determines how you spend your soul.

While my heart wants to say yes, the reality of my time makes this a no." I've learned the best "no" answers are graciously honest.

God is able to stand in my yesterday, today, and tomorrow, He knows things and sees things for which I need to be prepared.

The emotions that feel so intense today will ease up over time as long as we let them. We just have to watch how we think and talk about this rejection. If we give it the power to define us, it will haunt us long-term. But if we only allow it enough power to refine us, the hurt will give way to healing.

They say time heals—and I think this can be true—but only if that's truly the goal here: healing. Time grows the seeds that are planted, watered, and fertilized. Plant beauty, grow beauty. Plant thorns, grow thorns. Time will allow for either.

The decisions we make dictate the schedules we keep. The schedules we keep determine the lives we live. The lives we live determine how we spend our souls. So, this isn't just about finding time. This is about honoring God with the time we have.

A person pursuing obedience is able to pause and touch those that He says need our time, in spite of busy schedules.

Instead of waiting for the time to get started to simply appear one day, we need to be intentional with scheduling it.

The schedule you keep determines the life you live. And how you live your life determines how you spend your soul.

At first we say it's too soon, then years go by and we say it's too late.

Understand that no time showing up and bringing compassion to another human is ever a waste of time. Rather, it's our chance to bring context, purpose, and meaning to all of life. Quiet moments of compassion are epic moments of battle.