Quotes About Time

shift your realities and widen your world, but the work of waking up is up to you. It's good to hear your voice again. Good to have you back, and you're just in time, because there's more to do before we're done. Endings are difficult, and we need your help. Are you ready?

The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist? It feels like it exists, but where is it? And if it did exist but doesn't know, then where did it go?

But in the time it takes to say now, now is already over. It's already then. Then is the opposite of now. So saying now obliterates it's meaning, turning it into exactly what it isn't.

part yamamba,105 all at once. All the ages and stages, combined into a single female time being.

Time slowed down, and each moment unfolded into a future filled with infinite possibilities.

the granular nature of time: the 6,400,099,980 moments40 that constitute a single day. His point is that every single one of those moments provides an opportunity to reestablish our will. Even the snap of a finger, he says, provides us with sixty-five opportunities to wake up and to choose actions that will produce beneficial karma and turn our lives around.

Shiki fu i ku, ku fu i shiki.70

The tree was past and the paper is present, and yet paper still remembers holding itself upright and altogether. Like a dream, it remembers its sap.

Time itself is being, he wrote, and all being is time . . . In essence, everything in the entire universe is intimately linked with each other as moments in time, continuous and separate.

I've always thought time was a little iffy, myself.

This is the chapter in which he praises his young monks for their commitment to a path of awakening and explicates the granular nature of time: the 6,400,099,980 moments40 that constitute a single day. His point is that every single one of those moments provides an opportunity to reestablish our will. Even the snap of a finger, he says, provides us with sixty-five opportunities to wake up and to choose actions that will produce beneficial karma and turn our lives around.

That's what I like so much about old libraries - they smell the way we'd like to imagine the past.

Captured by the cooking, I had a fleeting thought that I'd spent too many years trading time for money.

You mean like you?" The old enmity had come roaring back, and she was no longer one of my bosses. She gave a shout of laughter. "Well, you're right, it's been a rotten time. I've been catering, which is just another way of saying that I've been in hell." "That bad?" Richard took a bite

Because all the talk about "quality time" is utter nonsense; children don't need quality time. They need your time. Lots of it. And they let you know it.

Only time can heal wounds as deep as that—a lot of time—and all you can really do is place yourself in its hands and try to consider the passing of each day a victory.

It was the perfect time and place for an inherently timid person like him to express his inner pervert by peeing in public.

I never liked to just absorb something somebody else created. I'm too self-conscious, and too critical, I guess, and it always felt like I was wasting time. But after you went away... well, it started to feel like time was wasting me. Every tick of the second hand was like a needle in my skin. Tick, tick, tick...

sometimes things happen that no one hopes for. Events that cause everything you've worked toward, the life you've carefully constructed piece by piece, to come tumbling down all around you. No one is to blame, but you're left with a wound you can't heal on your own and can't believe you'll ever learn to accept, so you struggle to escape the pain. Only time can heal wounds as deep as that

It was as if he'd abandoned himself to his despair, but in fact, Aoyama knew, he was fervently searching for something. Something that, once found, would keep him from having to feel the pain of his wound. To just entrust oneself to time was to exterminate oneself, to temporarily accept a kind of death.

I was glad I'd chosen this time of day to meet. Broad daylight doesn't lend itself to intimate personal confessions.

Time appears as a result of our actions, and vanishes when we neglect or ignore it. It is something that springs into life under our influence, but falls into a state of hibernation, even nonexistence, if we do not direct our energy toward it. It is subservient, passive essence, and most importantly, one dependent on man. The absolute opposite of time as it is understood in the European worldview.

Czas pojawia siÄ™ w wyniku naszego dziaÅ'ania, a znika, kiedy go zaniechamy albo w ogóle nie podejmiemy. Jest to materia, która pod naszym wpÅ'ywem mo?e zawsze o?y?, ale popadnie w stan hibernacji i nawet niebytu, je?eli nie udzielimy jej naszej energii. Czas jest istnoÅ›ciÄ… biernÄ…, pasywnÄ… i przede wszystkim – zale?nÄ… od czÅ'owieka.

Al fin y al cabo, el viaje no empieza cuando nos ponemos en ruta ni acaba cuando alcanzamos el destino. En realidad empieza mucho antes y prácticamente no se acaba nunca porque la cinta de la memoria no deja de girar en nuestro interior por más tiempo que lleve nuestro cuerpo sin moverse de sitio. A fin de cuentas, lo que podríamos llamar «contagio de viaje» existe, y es, en el fondo, una enfermedad incurable.