Quotes About Time

God, life changes faster than you think.

After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.

Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.

A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.

There was a time when love was the law. There was a time for the tooth and the claw, Last rites given, no holds barred. Heaven express on my credit card.

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

If you are not present, you are unable to have an effect on that unique, fleeting moment called now that truly determines what happens next. Now is the only creative moment we have. Fear was causing me to project my past into my future, never allowing me to engage in the now. Worry and fear are thieves that rob us of our ability to change.

Dreams last so long, even after you're gone

I hoped that reading the novel would give my mother a sense that my life as a queer black feminist is about something more than my choice of partners. It is also about a relationship to time and people and shared space.

The world turns. And it turns. And it moves and you don't. You're still here.

Their ganna live, until they die.

Your success will depend on your enthusiasm and the time that you invest in learning.

Well, you know the old saying. 'The wheel of fate makes a full turn every sixty years,'" An Yi said. "It's their turn to suffer now.

Then it crosses my mind, 'But I'm a very busy woman! I don't have time for a stroke!'

It needs time, perspective, to show you that someone might be original.

Her legs swing complete afternoons away.

We have had the opportunity to learn from the misjudgments of others, and we have been imbued with determination to use our time wisely, to cause as little pain as possible to others, to pay attention, to live and love with few regrets.

I learned that time manages the most painful partings for us. One has only to set the date, buy the ticket, and let the earth, sun, and moon make their passages through the sky, until inexorable time carries us with it to the moment of parting.

According to sales management expert Lee Salz, it takes a minimum of eight months for new salespeople to perform at the same level as their tenured colleagues—even if they're experienced sellers.

In Information Overload: We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us,* the authors state that distractions consume an average of 2.1 hours per day.

To study the past is to unlock the prison of the present.