Quotes About Time

Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever.

At 20 everyone has the face that God gave them, at 40 the face that life gave them, and at 60 the face they earned.

Only when we are so old, only, are we aware of the beauty of life.

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.

Be patient. Life can seem pretty gray while those beautiful wings of yours are being formed. All in due time, dear one. All in due time.

If you're too in your head and you're not in the moment, life passes you by.

The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.

I am among those who firmly believe that a round of golf should not take more than three and a half hours, four at most. Anything longer than that is not a round of golf, it's life in Albania.

Our thoughts are always pulling us into the future or the past, away from the present. But it is in the present moment that we find Spirit, our essential being and the force that animates all life.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.

He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.

In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts?

We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.

Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.

Life without zazen is like winding your clock without setting it. It runs perfectly well, but it dosen't tell time.

The greatest gift you will ever have is your life, and the second greatest gift-which you give yourself-is courage to live it to the fullest. Time goes by quickly, and you cannot take it for granted.

The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.

And you, whiner, who wastes your time Dawdling over the remorseless earth, What evil, what unspeakable crime Have you made your life worth?

In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away, And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or today.

Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.