Quotes About Time

If you want to know your past life, look at your present condition. If you want to know your future life, look at your present actions.

Although your mind lies beyond birth and death, this illusory body does die, so practice while remembering death […] The guru said: Human beings don't think of death. A man's life is like a pile of chaff or a feather on a mountain pass. The demon Lord of Death comes suddenly, like an avalanche or a storm. Disturbing emotions are like straw catching fire. Your life-span decreases like the shadows of the setting sun.

paredes, viajar en el tiempo y, por supuesto, recordar el paso de su alma por el estado intermedio entre dos reencarnaciones, conocido como "Bardo". Se cree que esas experiencias le permitieron describir lo que sucede tras la muerte del cuerpo físico y crear el método de liberación del espíritu.

If I've learned one thing, it's that relationships can be fleeting. There's no guarantee of the time one might have with another...There might not be a second chance if you let something special slip through your fingers. I don't want to live with regrets.

Paladin: age is the price of living.

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

what if you could have all the wisdom of a lifetime and still look like you looked when you were twenty-five' 'or what?' I say. 'what, what' she says. I say, 'I thought we were playing Would You Rather...?' She twists her head like a dog at a foghorn. 'Marla,' I say, 'you get the wisdom because you don't anymore look like you did when you were twenty-five.' She says, 'You don't understand the rules to this game.

as long as we are living, there is always time to expand the story.

It's hard for anybody to put their finger on the moment when life changes from being something that is nearly all in front of you to something that happened while your attention was elsewhere.

Sometimes our forever life does not last as long as we think

And once out, Eleanor thought silently, you can't put it back any more than returning a mist of perfume to a bottle once it has been sprayed.

Conversations in French bubble around me like a long-forgotten perfume I am desperate to inhale. Familiar words trickle back, first in a stream then a river, though I've scarcely heard them in half a century.

for many hours. "He didn't

A veces la vida que imaginamos no dura tanto como creemos.

One day you may feel differently," she replies. "Sometimes our forever life does not last as long as we think.

date on such short notice.

admit it, man. He watched the shadows dance to the flicker of his candle, giving himself just a little more time before committing himself to what would change his life forever." You love her." He whispered the words quietly to himself so that he could hear them from his own lips." You love her.

Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.

I don't really feel like I want to chase youth. I want to get old. I want to experience all the seasons of my life.

We struggle with a seditious inner voice that says, "You're wasting time. Get up and do something with your life.

There are so few years to just be a child.

Perhaps he was recalling the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, who wrote in the nineteenth century: "When we are ascending the hill of life, death is not visible: it lies down at the bottom of the other side. But once we have crossed the top of the hill, death comes in view—death, which, until then, was known to us only by hearsay.")

THE FRENCH HAVE a saying: 'You can't go faster than the music'. They believe that a child will roll over, rise to his feet, become potty trained and start to talk when he's good and ready. Lovingly encourage and support him – don't try to rush his development or turn his childhood into boot camp. Being a little kid shouldn't be hard work. There's time enough for that later.