Quotes About Time

The time and situation is always right to express and experience the beauty of kindness.

We are always fascinated with the past, but the future is always brighter.

Growing older is a precious commodity. Only a few can endure to achieve that distinguished distinction and quality.

Always focus on what is important—not what is urgent.

Yesterday is the last day of the past. Tomorrow is brimming with hope, so today is meant to lived large. Enjoy your moments!

Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that – where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.

It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.

The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.

If reason ruled the world would history even exist?

Time has a way of demonstrating . . . the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

I don't get jealous of people. Jealousy is such a waste of time because you're jealous of them, and they go about their lives and have a wonderful time, so what's the point?

He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.

Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.

Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.

Às vezes tenho a sensação de que nada do que acontece acontece, porque nada acontece sem interrupção, nada perdura nem persevera nem se recorda incessantemente, e até a mais monótona e rotineira das existências vai se anulando e negando a si mesma em sua aparente repetição até que nada seja nada e ninguém seja ninguém que tenham sido antes.

todo es cada vez más veloz, menos duradero, y se da de baja y se archiva más pronto, y nuestro pasado se hace cada vez más denso y amontonado y nutrido porque se decreta —y aun llega a creerse— que el ayer es ya caduco y el anteayer sólo historia, e inmemorial lo de hace un año.

Voy a irme yendo" indica que no se va todavía, va a esperar todavía un poco, por lo menos

Los dormidos, y los muertos, no son sino como pinturas', dijo nuestro Shakespeare, y yo a veces pienso que las personas todas son sólo eso, como pinturas, dormidos presentes y futuros muertos.

Cuesta comprender que ya no exista quien ha existido.