Quotes About Time

Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.

When God wants to make a mushroom, he does it overnight, but when He wants to make a giant oak, He takes a hundred years. Great souls are grown through struggles and storms and seasons of suffering. Be patient with the process.

The way you SEE your life SHAPES your life. How you define life determines your destiny. Your perspective will influence how you invest your time, spend your money, use your talents, and value your relationships.

Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye...

Every day is an important day, and every second is a growth opportunity to deepen your character, to demonstrate love, or to depend on God.

You can use your time to build bridges or walls.The latter is not only unChristlike, it limits impact & creates loneliness.

Without a clear purpose you have no foundation on which you base decisions, allocate your time, and use your resources. You will tend to make choices based on circumstances, pressures, and your mood at that moment. People who don't know their purpose try to do too much — and that causes stress, fatigue, and conflict.

Busyness is a great enemy of relationships.

Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.

Living to create an earthly legacy is a shortsighted goal. A wiser use of time is to build an eternal legacy. You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.

Time is your most precious gift because you only have a set amount of it. You can make more money, but you can't make more time. When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back

Nothing could be kept, he thought, everything ran through one's fingers like sand or water. Or time. Perhaps nothing should be kept. A monkish thought that he dismissed.

Now that the war looked as if it was going to last forever Ursula had decided she might as well embark on Proust.

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We're dying from the moment we're born

He didn't make plans himself any more. There was now and it was followed by another now. If you were lucky.

You are an old soul," he said. "It can't be easy. But your life is still ahead of you. It must be lived.

Time was a thief and Jackson felt he gained a small triumph by stealing back some of the early hours

What is the fabric of time like? Black silk? A smooth twill, a rough tweed? Or lacy and fragile like something Mrs. Baxter would knit?

Perhaps his son was right. Perhaps the past was no longer the context for the present. Perhaps none of it mattered anymore. Was this how the world would end—not with a bang but a So?

but nonetheless once you hit fifty there was no escaping the fact that you had a one-way ticket on a nonstop service to the terminus.

She needed more time, there simply wasn't enough of it. This was the only way she could think of making it (setting her alarm five minutes earlier every day). Not making it exactly, if you could make it from scratch - brand new time- that would be fantastic.

L'Air du Temps

Her past already seemed an antiquated curiosity—a virtual space re-created by the museum of the future.