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Quotes about Time

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Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future.

It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events or the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in the conscious experience.

Time is often referred to as a fourth dimension, along with three spatial dimensions.

Time is one of the seven fundamental physical quantities in both the International System of Units (SI) and International System of Quantities. The SI base unit of time is the second, which is defined by measuring the electronic transition frequency of caesium atoms.

General relativity is the primary framework for understanding how spacetime works. Through advances in both theoretical and experimental investigations of spacetime, it has been shown that time can be distorted and dilated, particularly at the edges of black holes.

Throughout history, time has been an important subject of study in religion, philosophy, and science.

Temporal measurement has occupied scientists and technologists and was a prime motivation in navigation and astronomy.

Time is also of significant social importance, having economic value (“time is money”) as well as personal value, due to an awareness of the limited time in each day and in human life spans

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

Marthe Troly-Curtin, “Phrynette Married”

“Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges.

Life is too short to be unhappy.”

Roy T. Bennett

“How did it get so late so soon?”

Dr. Seuss

“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.

There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want.

You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing.

We can make the best or the worst of it.

I hope you make the best of it.

And I hope you see things that startle you.

I hope you feel things you never felt before.

I hope you meet people with a different point of view.

I hope you live a life you’re proud of.

If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”

Eric Roth,
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay”

“I sit beside the fire and think
Of all that I have seen
Of meadow flowers and butterflies
In summers that have been

Of yellow leaves and gossamer
In autumns that there were
With morning mist and silver sun
And wind upon my hair

I sit beside the fire and think
Of how the world will be
When winter comes without a spring
That I shall ever see

For still there are so many things
That I have never seen
In every wood in every spring
There is a different green

I sit beside the fire and think
Of people long ago
And people that will see a world
That I shall never know

But all the while I sit and think
Of times there were before
I listen for returning feet
And voices at the door”

J.R.R. Tolkien

“Time is an illusion.”

Albert Einstein

“You may delay, but time will not.”

Benjamin Franklin

“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”

Heraclitus, “Fragments”

“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”

Edgar Allan Poe

“Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion.

What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time:

the Now.

That is precious indeed.

The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”

Eckhart Tolle,
“The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”

“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden.

A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject…

And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages.

There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them…

Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.”

Seneca, “Natural Questions”

“Fantasy, if it’s really convincing, can’t become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.”

Walt Disney

The Universe is very, very big.

It also loves a paradox.

For example, it has some extremely strict rules.

Rule number one:

Nothing lasts forever.

Not you or your family or your house or your planet or the sun.

It is an absolute rule.

Therefore when someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies.

Rule number two:

Everything lasts forever.”

Craig Ferguson,
“Between the Bridge and the River”

“Punctuality is the thief of time.”

Oscar Wilde

“the tired sunsets and the tired
people –
it takes a lifetime to die and
no time at
all.”

Charles Bukowski

“The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.”

Dante Alighieri

“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”

Benjamin Disraeli

“Do not wait: the time will never be ‘just right’.

Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.”

Napoleon Hill

The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for a Grand Designer, and revealing how the universe created itself. …

Time itself must come to a stop.

You can’t get to a time before the big bang, because there was no time before the big bang.

We have finally found something that does not have a cause because there was no time for a cause to exist in.

For me this means there is no possibility of a creator because there is no time for a creator to have existed.

Since time itself began at the moment of the Big Bang, it was an event that could not have been caused or created by anyone or anything. …

So when people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them the question itself makes no sense.

Time didn’t exist before the Big Bang, so there is no time for God to make the universe in.

It’s like asking for directions to the edge of the Earth.

The Earth is a sphere.

It does not have an edge, so looking for it is a futile exercise.”

Stephen W. Hawking

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.”

Eckhart Tolle

“A man is the sum of his misfortunes.

One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune.”

William Faulkner,
“The Sound and the Fury”

“Nothing endures but change.”

Heraclitus

If you imagine the 4,500-bilion-odd years of Earth’s history compressed into a normal earthly day, then life begins very early, about 4 A.M., with the rise of the first simple, single-celled organisms, but then advances no further for the next sixteen hours.

Not until almost 8:30 in the evening, with the day five-sixths over, has Earth anything to show the universe but a restless skin of microbes.

Then, finally, the first sea plants appear, followed twenty minutes later by the first jellyfish and the enigmatic Ediacaran fauna first seen by Reginald Sprigg in Australia.

At 9:04 P.M. trilobites swim onto the scene, followed more or less immediately by the shapely creatures of the Burgess Shale.

Just before 10 P.M. plants begin to pop up on the land. Soon after, with less than two hours left in the day, the first land creatures follow.

Thanks to ten minutes or so of balmy weather, by 10:24 the Earth is covered in the great carboniferous forests whose residues give us all our coal, and the first winged insects are evident.

Dinosaurs plod onto the scene just before 11 P.M. and hold sway for about three-quarters of an hour.

At twenty-one minutes to midnight they vanish and the age of mammals begins.

Humans emerge one minute and seventeen seconds before midnight.

The whole of our recorded history, on this scale, would be no more than a few seconds, a single human lifetime barely an instant.

Throughout this greatly speeded-up day continents slide about and bang together at a clip that seems positively reckless.

Mountains rise and melt away, ocean basins come and go, ice sheets advance and withdraw.

And throughout the whole, about three times every minute, somewhere on the planet there is a flash-bulb pop of light marking the impact of a Manson-sized meteor or one even larger.

It’s a wonder that anything at all can survive in such a pummeled and unsettled environment.

In fact, not many things do for long.”

Bill Bryson,
“A Short History of Nearly Everything”

“Time is Galleons, little brother.”

J.K. Rowling,
“Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”

“The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit.

Nothing that means anything happens quickly–we only think it does.

The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making.

So it is with a life, anyone’s life. I may list things that might be described as my accomplishments in these few pages, but they are only shadows of the larger truth, fragments separated from the whole cycle of becoming.

And if I can tell an old-time story now about a man who is walking about, waudjoset ndatlokugan, a forest lodge man, alesakamigwi udlagwedewugan, it is because I spent many years walking about myself, listening to voices that came not just from the people but from animals and trees and stones.”

Joseph Bruchac

I sometimes have moments of such despair, such despair …

Because in those moments I start to think that I will never be capable of beginning to live a real life; because I have already begun to think that I have lost all sense of proportion, all sense of the real and the actual; because, what is more, I have cursed myself; because my nights of fantasy are followed by hideous moments of sobering!

And all the time one hears the human crowd swirling and thundering around one in the whirlwind of life, one hears, one sees how people live—that they live in reality, that for them life is not something forbidden, that their lives are not scattered for the winds like dreams or visions but are forever in the process of renewal, forever young, and that no two moments in them are ever the same; while how dreary and monotonous to the point of being vulgar is timorous fantasy, the slave of shadow, of the idea…”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
“White Nights”

“We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infintesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future.

We have no present.

Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation.

We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience.

We are therefore out of touch with reality.

We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is.

We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas.”

Alan Wilson Watts

“Enjoy life.

There’s plenty of time to be dead.”

Hans Christian Andersen

“I lied and said I was busy.
I was busy;
but not in a way most people understand.

I was busy taking deeper breaths.
I was busy silencing irrational thoughts.
I was busy calming a racing heart.
I was busy telling myself I am okay.

Sometimes, this is my busy –
and I will not apologize for it.”

Brittin Oakman

“Were all the geniuses of history to focus on this single theme, they could never fully express their bafflement at the darkness of the human mind.

No person would give up even an inch of their estate, and the slightest dispute with a neighbor can mean hell to pay; yet we easily let others encroach on our lives—worse, we often pave the way for those who will take it over.

No person hands out their money to passersby, but to how many do each of us hand out our lives!

We’re tight-fisted with property and money, yet think too little of wasting time, the one thing about which we should all be the toughest misers.”

Seneca,
“On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It”

“Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency.

No one is rich, no one is poor, we’ve got 24 hours each.”

Christopher Rice

…unfortunately, it’s true: time does heal.

It will do so whether you like it or not, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.

If you’re not careful, time will take away everything that ever hurt you, everything you have ever lost, and replace it with knowledge.

Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience.

Raw data will be compiled, will be translated into a more comprehensible language.

The individual events of your life will be transmuted into another substance called memory and in the mechanism something will be lost and you will never be able to reverse it, you will never again have the original moment back in its uncategorized, preprocessed state.

It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.”

Charles Yu,
“How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe”

“Happy the man, and happy he alone,
he who can call today his own:
he who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Be fair or foul, or rain or shine
the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power,
but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.”

Horace

“Sometimes when I meet old friends, it reminds me how quickly time passes.

And it makes me wonder if we’ve utilized our time properly or not.

Proper utilization of time is so important.

While we have this body, and especially this amazing human brain, I think every minute is something precious.

Our day-to-day existence is very much alive with hope, although there is no guarantee of our future.

There is no guarantee that tomorrow at this time we will be here.

But we are working for that purely on the basis of hope.

So, we need to make the best use of our time.

I believe that the proper utilization of time is this: if you can, serve other people, other sentient beings.

If not, at least refrain from harming them. I think that is the whole basis of my philosophy.

So, let us reflect what is truly of value in life, what gives meaning to our lives, and set our priorities on the basis of that.

The purpose of our life needs to be positive.

We weren’t born with the purpose of causing trouble, harming others.

For our life to be of value, I think we must develop basic good human qualities—warmth, kindness, compassion.

Then our life becomes meaningful and more peaceful—happier.”

Dalai Lama XIV,
“The Art of Happiness”

Wisest quotes of all time

Sometimes the word quote is used as shorthand for quotation, a passage of speech or writing that’s repeated word for word.

As a verb, to quote means to repeat someone’s words, attributing them to their originator.

When one writes out a quote, one puts the other person’s words in quotation marks (“Aha!”).

To my Dearest Emily

A drop of Wisdom in an ocean of Ignorance, Stupidity and Madness, that this world has become lately… Sad…

May these quotes from bright minds all over the planet guide you on Your path !

From Papi with Love

“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules…

You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius…”

Steve Jobs

“If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life.

There are no limits.

There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”

Bruce Lee

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow”.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

”Buddha was asked, “What have you gained from meditation?”

He replied, “Nothing!”

However, Buddha said, let me tell you what I lost: Anger, Anxiety, Depression, Insecurity, Fear of Old, Age and Death.”

Buddha

“The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell you what to see.”

Alexandra K. Trenfor

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”

Plato

“Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

Steve Jobs

“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

Lao Tzu

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world.

Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

Margaret Mead

“In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

George Orwell

Man: ‘I want happiness’

Buddha: First remove ”I”, this is Ego.

Then remove “Want”, this is desire.

Finally all that remains is “Happiness.”

Buddha

“Logic will get you from A to B.

Imagination will take you everywhere.”

Albert Einstein

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

Carl Jung

“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”

Bruce Lee

“Never let school interfere with your education.”

Mark Twain

“The real question is not whether life exists after death.

The real question is whether you are alive before your death.”

Osho

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”

Lao Tzu

“He who controls others may be powerful but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”

Lao Tzu

“You have enemies?

Good; that means you have stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

Winston Churchill

“To live is the rarest thing in the world.

Most people exist, that is all.”

Oscar Wilde

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them”

Albert Einstein

“Loneliness is and will always be the most abundant source of human experience.”

Swami Vivekanand

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.”

J.K. Rowling

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.

And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”

Dalai Lama

“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.”

Christopher McCandless

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.

I wrote down “Happy.”

They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”

John Lennon

“Everybody is a genius.

But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

Albert Einstein

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

Gandhi

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”

Henry van Dyke

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.”

Wayne Gretzky

“We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”

Aristotle

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

Aristotle

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”

Socrates

“Life isn’t about finding yourself.

Life is about creating yourself.”

George Bernard Shaw

“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”

Walt Disney Company, “Mulan”

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”

Gautama Buddha

“The past has no power over the present moment.”

Eckhart Tolle

“The truth is, everyone’s going to hurt you.

You’ve just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”

Bob Marley

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

J.K. Rowling

“A man who conquers himself is greater than one who conquers a thousand men   in battle”

Buddha

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.”

Ancient Chinese Proverb

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.         Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.”

Carl Jung

“Never be bullied into silence, never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no one’s definition of your life,
define yourself.”

Robert Frost

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.”

Confucius

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”

Albert Einstein

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers    to turn on the light.”

JK Rowling

“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.”

Eckhart Tolle

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

T. S. Eliot

“Not all those who wander are lost.”

J. R. R. Tolkien

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.”

Robert Frost

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.”

John F. Kennedy

“With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.”



“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”— Albert Einstein

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” ~ Steve Jobs

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

Learn as if you were to live forever.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count.

It’s the life in your years.”

Abraham Lincoln

“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus!

That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t.

We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”

Charles Bukowski

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.

Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

Buddha

“Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like its heaven on earth.”

Mark Twain

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood?

Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.

To be great is to be misunderstood.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.

These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern.

Beautiful people do not just happen.”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“All life is an experiment.

The more experiments you make, the better.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Know thyself.”

Socrates


“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

Socrates

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

Socrates

“Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.”

Dalai Lama

“The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.”

Aristotle

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.”

William Shakespeare

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

George Santayana

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”

Helen Keller

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

Aristotle