Quotes About Time

The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation for all that was to come and everything that had ever been.

I hate to think how many minutes of my life I've spent on goddamn hold. I want those minutes back. When death comes for me, I want back every minute I was on hold in traffic jams, and behind people with eleven items in the ten items or less line.

The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries, rinsed of debris, sweetened judiciously and served in small portions, not very often.

donna madonna, there's always mañana

Make no vows or promises in the dark. Always wait until morning. -Najdan the Assassin

You don't build the life you want by saving time. You build the life you want, and then time saves itself. Recognizing that is what makes success possible.

Time is elastic. It stretches to accommodate what we need or want to do with it.

This is what happens when you treat your 168 hours as a blank slate. This is what happens when you fill them up only with things that deserve to be there. You build a life where you really can have it all.

I don't have time' means 'It's not a priority.' We always have time for what matters to us.

Even if you don't have kids at home, morning time can be great for nurturing your relationship with your spouse, other family members, or your close friends. One of the most disturbing "statistics" I read while researching how people use their time was that dual-income couples could find only 12 minutes a day to talk with each other.

In 168 hours, there is plenty of space to nurture yourself alongside your career and your relationships.

You have fewer than 1,000 Saturdays with each child in your care before they're grown up.

I can accomplish more before breakfast than I used to do in a day.

you can choose how to spend your 168 hours, and you have more time than you think.

Being off the clock implies time freedom, yet time freedom stems from time discipline. You must know where the time goes in order to transcend the ceaseless ticking.

Those who cry to be young again should think twice before they seal those prayers.

Time is not your friend. It doesn't care if you live fast or die slow, if you are or if you aren't. It was here before you arrived and it will go on after you leave. Time doesn't care who wins or who loses, if your life span is full or empty, honorable or shameful. Time is indifferent. It simply doesn't give a shit.

All you really have...is now.

Tomorrow belongs to betrayal. Today is mine and I don't want to waste it being afraid.

Grief obliterates the present, forcing you to relive the past and dread the future.

Some of the greatest blessings take a long time in coming, as God works out His plans.

I sometimes go months without remembering you. Some griefs bless us that way, not asking much space.

He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.

I have lived for over three hundred years. In that time, the ideal of beauty has changed many times. Large breasts, small, thin, curved, tall, short, they have all been the height of beauty at one time or another. But in all that time, ma petite, I have never desired anyone the way I desire you. - Jean-Claude