Quotes About Time

Czasem strzelecka mi?o?? – w?drowna ptaszyna, Serce przelotem zwiedzi – tak mija godzina, I tydzie?, i rok przesz?y, - tak bywa?o wczora, Tak jest dzisiaj i b?dzie ka?dego wieczora.

Wszystko przesz?o, a czemu? nie przejd? ?zy moje!

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The past influences everything and dictates nothing.

Everything in life changes you in some way. Even the smallest things. If you do not accept these changes you do not accept yourself. For through these changes brings new and greater things to you, making you wiser, as time progresses. To avoid these changes is a loss. You only live your life once. Do not waste a minute of it avoiding things. Let them come to you, and learn from them. There is always tomorrow.

And after night comes day, or more night, depending on the particular time-frame you choose to apply to your perspective.

And now it's afterwards. The worse of it is: it will always be afterwards now.

This is a strange conundrum that betrays our difficulties with classifying life, and our adherence to a system that was designed to show the perfection of divine creation, organisms static in time and set in stone as they stand before us. Darwin's great idea ruined that ideal, because he recognized that life passes through time, and changes continually. The only life forms that don't change are dead ones.

For the sake of perspective, life has existed on Earth for about 3.9 billion years. The species Homo sapiens, of which you are a member, emerged a mere 300,000 years ago, as far as we know, in pockets in the east and north of Africa. Writing began about 6,000 years ago, in Mesopotamia, somewhere in what we now call the Middle East.

All life is set for extinction over a long enough timescale; more than 97 percent of species that have ever existed are already gone.

The Neanderthals were a proto-species, an embryonic light that flickered in evolutionary time, but was not strong enough to stand across epochs.

Whichever way speech and language emerged in humans, it was a transition, with all those necessary but not sufficient pieces being nudged in one way or the other, by chance, by selection. The fact that it was a transition, not a revolution, means it took time.

on a long enough timeline we're all inbred.

life has existed on Earth for about 3.9 billion years. The species Homo sapiens, of which you are a member, emerged a mere 300,000 years ago as far as we know, in pockets in east and north Africa. Writing began about 6,000 years ago, in Mesopotamia, somewhere in what we now call the Middle East.

There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time." Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

SNL is a home. You've got all of your brothers and sisters there, and it's a great time.

Time. There is much time left and lots of life seasons. There is much to see, to do, and to be.

the time spent on social media was negatively correlated with the amount of money in one's bank account and positively correlated with the amount of body fat on one's person

Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies To listen to Earth's weary voices Louder every day Bidding her no longer linger On her charm'd way But hasten to her task of beauty Scarcely yet begun.

These beThree silent things:The falling snow… the hourBefore the dawn… the mouth of oneJust dead.

We can get so busy doing urgent things and so preoccupied with what comes next that we don't experience now. Afraid of being late, we rush from the past to the future. The present moment becomes a crack between what we did and what we have yet to do. It is virtually lost to us. We don't get to our futures any faster if we hurry. And we certainly don't become better people in haste. More likely than not, the faster we go the less we become.

MOTHER: Billy, we're leaving in five minutes. BILLY: (doesn't answer and continues to read the comics.) MOTHER: Would you tell me what I just said? BILLY: You said we're leaving in five minutes. MOTHER: Okay, now that I know you know, I won't mention it again.

She needs to make one phone call, and she wishes she could make it into her past. Into last year. Or two years ago.

Even with millions you can't control time.