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“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it over time”
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have make the now the primary focus of your life”
— Eckhart Tolle
“How soon not now becomes never.”
— Publilius Syrus
“It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a great deal of it”
— Seneca
“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.”
— Jean de La Bruyere
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
— Confucius
“Time expands then contracts and all in tune with the stirrings of the heart”
— Haruki Murakami
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour.”
— C.S. Lewis
“Prediction is very difficult especially about the future but time always tells the truth”
— Niels Bohr
“Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Time is relative its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing”
— Albert Einstein
“Time is like a river that carries us forward into encounters with reality that require us to make decisions”
— Ray Dalio
“Time flows away like the water in the river”
“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”
— Theophrastus
“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.”
— Annie Dillard
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you as time passes”
— Maya Angelou
“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect no matter how much time it saves”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Time the devourer of all things.”
— Ovid
“Stuff your eyes with wonder live as if you would drop dead in ten seconds see the world through time”
— Ray Bradbury
“Time is the friend of the wonderful company and the enemy of the mediocre”
— Warren Buffett
“Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life.”
— Mary Oliver
“The soul is healed by being with children who remind us of times innocence”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I will live this day as if it is my last.”
— Og Mandino
“There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow.”
— Dalai Lama
“Time flies never to be recalled”
— Virgil
“Time and tide wait for no man, but time always comes back with the tide.”
— Thiruvalluvar
“The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.”
— Unknown
“Think of the life you have lived until now as over and as a dead man see what is left as a bonus and live it properly.”
“Seize the day and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.”
— Horace
“There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice, and nothing which we stand in so much need of as time.”
— Joseph Addison
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music of time”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done one is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow”
“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour”
— William Blake
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
— Charles Darwin
“Time is a created thing. To say I dont have time is like saying I dont want to.”
— Lao Tzu
“Stillness is the key and time is the door through which we enter it”
— Ryan Holiday
“The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“One day you will wake up and there will not be any more time to do the things you have always wanted do it now”
— Paulo Coelho
“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks but only at what he himself does”
— Franz Kafka
“I exist as I am that is enough and time will reveal the rest”
— Walt Whitman
“Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly through the span of time”
— Langston Hughes
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love.”
— Sophocles
“The future depends on what you do today.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Time moves slowly but passes quickly when you are doing what you love”
— Alice Walker
“The present alone is man's possession; the past is gone, the future yet to come.”
— Sadi Shirazi
“Yesterday is history tomorrow is a mystery today is a gift that is why we call it the present”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Nothing is ours except time.”
“This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”
“Awareness of death is the ultimate catalyst for personal change and time is deaths companion”
— Irvin Yalom
“Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas to think in nonlinear ways and to make unexpected leaps”
— Adam Grant
“Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.”
— Lord Chesterfield
“One must learn to husband time carefully in order to enjoy it.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“Time flies over us but leaves its shadow behind.”
“The wise do at once what the fool does at last.”
— Baltasar Gracian
“There is no decision that we can make that does not come with some sort of balance or sacrifice and time reveals the wisdom of our choices”
— Simon Sinek
“One is not born but rather becomes a woman through the passage of time”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“Time is what we want most but what we use worst.”
— William Penn
“Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the only thing he cant afford to lose.”
— Thomas Edison
“Lost time is never found again.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“The rich invest in time the poor invest in money”
“The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all moments”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Time is a drug too much of it kills you”
— Terry Pratchett
“The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
— William James
“The average human lifespan is absurdly insultingly brief assuming you live to be eighty you have just over four thousand weeks of time”
— Oliver Burkeman
“When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
— Helen Keller
“There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
— Edith Wharton
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty”
“We are not thinking machines that feel we are feeling machines that think and time shapes both processes”
— Daniel Kahneman
“Your time is limited so do not waste it living someone elses life”
— Steve Jobs
“All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.”
“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.”
— William Butler Yeats
“The time is always right to do what is right”
— Martin Luther King Jr
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“The only reason for time is so that everything does not happen at once”
“Time and space are finite in extent but they do not have any boundary or edge”
— Stephen Hawking
“Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”
“Time is the ultimate test of fragility what is fragile will eventually break”
— Nassim Taleb
“It always seems impossible until it is done.”
— Nelson Mandela
“It was the best of times it was the worst of times”
— Charles Dickens
“To create ones own world takes courage and time is the canvas”
— Georgia O Keeffe
“I ran out the door with time on my heels and never looked back.”
— Roman Payne
“I am still learning and time is my greatest teacher”
— Michelangelo
“Forever is composed of nows”
— Emily Dickinson
“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.”
— Wayne Dyer
“Dont let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it.”
— Earl Nightingale
“Smile breathe and go slowly.”
“Well begun is half done.”
— Aristotle
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through.”
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself and time is the catalyst”
— Abraham Maslow
“Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task and time is its essential ingredient”
— Cal Newport
“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”
— Dion Boucicault
“No man ever steps in the same river twice for it is not the same river and he is not the same man”
— Heraclitus
“To exist is to change to change is to mature to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly through time”
— Henri Bergson
“You get what anybody gets you get a lifetime and time is its measure”
— Neil Gaiman
“The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“Dont say you dont have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller and Michelangelo.”
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place.”
“Ordinary people think merely of spending time, great people think of using it.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“Freeing yourself was one thing claiming ownership of that freed self was another and time is the bridge”
— Toni Morrison
“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”
— Homer
“Time is the substance from which I am made time is a river which carries me along but I am the river”
— Jorge Luis Borges
“For the first time in my life I understood that time was the most precious thing there is”
— Hermann Hesse
“This is the real secret of life to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now”
— Alan Watts
“We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.”
— John F. Kennedy
“The trouble is you think you have time”
— Buddha
“Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world today I am wise so I am changing myself”
— Rumi
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.”
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom and time is the ground beneath our feet”
— Alain de Botton
“And what is time but a thought between two dreams”
“Do not live the same year 75 times and call it a life”
— Robin Sharma
“It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a good deal of it.”
“The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.”
— Dante Alighieri
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom but time teaches both”
— Isaac Asimov
“The web does not just connect machines it connects people across time”
— Tim Berners-Lee
“I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy but time always rewards persistence”
— Marie Curie
“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“I very frequently get the question what is going to change in the next ten years but the question should be what is not going to change and how does time shape that”
— Jeff Bezos
“The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily and time is the engine”
— Charlie Munger
“Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.”
— Anatole France
“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday not to who someone else is today and let time measure your growth”
— Jordan Peterson
“We are what we pretend to be so we must be careful about what we pretend to be as time judges all pretense”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“Time is the greatest innovator”
— Francis Bacon
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes”
— Marcel Proust
“Nothing beside remains round the decay of that colossal wreck boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away through time”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.”
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why”
— Mark Twain
“Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity and time is its medium”
— Maria Popova
“Make use of time, let not advantage slip.”
— William Shakespeare
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
— Pablo Picasso
“We say we waste time but that is impossible. We waste ourselves.”
— Alice Bloch
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“It is not death that a man should fear but he should fear never beginning to live.”
“Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.”
— Voltaire
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist that is all.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand.”
— Napoleon Hill
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants who came before me in time”
— Isaac Newton
“Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.”
“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”
— Jim Rohn
“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
— Bertrand Russell
“Time the devourer of all things”
“Lost time is never found again”
“What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning through time”
— Werner Heisenberg
“Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine and time proves them right”
— Alan Turing
“Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world most people exist that is all”
“All my possessions for a moment of time.”
— Elizabeth I
“An inch of time is an inch of gold, but an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time.”
“No great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig if you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time”
— Epictetus
“The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.”
— Charles Caleb Colton
“Short as life is we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time”
— Victor Hugo
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life and you cannot find time by avoiding the present”
— Virginia Woolf
“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
“There is geometry in the humming of the strings there is music in the spacing of the spheres and time is the rhythm”
— Pythagoras
“Make the best use of what is in your power and take the rest as it happens in time”
“The only journey is the one within and it takes all of time to complete”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“The best moments in our lives are not the passive receptive relaxing times but when time seems to stop in flow”
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life”
“Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together over time”
— Vincent van Gogh
“The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret and time keeps all secrets”
— Salvador Dali
“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late”
“To strive to seek to find and not to yield as time marches on”
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for”
— Epicurus
“In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing the worst thing you can do is nothing”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Time is not a thing it is the horizon within which all things appear and disappear”
— Martin Heidegger
“The most dangerous phrase in the language is we have always done it this way but time demands change”
— Grace Hopper
“We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are and what we become through time”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“No man ever steps in the same river twice for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.”
“We are all here on earth to help others what on earth the others are here for I do not know but time will tell”
— W.H. Auden
“Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.”
— Miguel de Cervantes
“Instead of working for four years on something that does not work spend time on what matters”
— Peter Thiel
“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”
— Will Rogers
“All our sweetest hours fly fastest.”
“The more I study the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be and time is the fuel for that fire”
— Ada Lovelace
“In an age of acceleration nothing can be more exhilarating than going slowly and savoring time”
— Pico Iyer
“Time has never had patience for fiction reality always catches up”
— Yuval Noah Harari
“The years teach much which the days never know.”
“The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“Time is more valuable than money you can get more money but you cannot get more time”
“Your time is limited so dont waste it living someone elses life.”
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods there is a rapture on the lonely shore there is society where none intrudes by the deep sea and music in its roar I love not man the less but nature more through time”
— Lord Byron
“It is good to have an end to journey toward but it is the journey that matters in the end and the time spent traveling”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love and give yourself time”
— Brene Brown
“To every man there comes in his lifetime a special moment when he is figuratively tapped on the shoulder”
— Winston Churchill
“One must learn to be patient and find that things will come to one in their own good time.”
“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“Time magnifies the margin between success and failure it will multiply whatever you feed it”
— James Clear
“Time is a sort of river of passing events and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by”
“How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives”
“In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life it goes on through time”
— Robert Frost
“The longest day has its end.”
— Jean de La Fontaine
“The present is theirs the future for which I really worked is mine”
— Nikola Tesla
“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.”
— Ecclesiastes 3:1
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time”
“Time is the image of eternity.”
— Plato
“Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance, but lost time is gone forever.”
— Samuel Smiles
“The future depends on what you do today”
“Not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced and time is the mirror”
— James Baldwin
“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in”
“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible and let time prove you right”
— Arthur C. Clarke
“It always seems impossible until it is done”
“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Between stimulus and response there is a space in that space is our power to choose our response and time lives in that space”
— Viktor Frankl
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
— Jackson Brown Jr.
“Never trust a computer you cannot throw out a window because time will make it obsolete anyway”
— Steve Wozniak
“The right time to dine is: for the rich man, when he is hungry; and for the poor man, when he has something to eat.”
“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness despite time”
— John Keats
“Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.”
“You may delay, but time will not.”
“We must use time as a tool not as a crutch”
“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards through time”
“The key is in not spending time but in investing it”
— Stephen Covey
“An inch of time is an inch of gold, but you can't buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.”
“They always say time changes things but you actually have to change them yourself”
— Andy Warhol
“Time and effort transform ability into accomplishment”
— Carol Dweck
“Time is a created thing to say I do not have time is like saying I do not want to”
“Time is the coin of your life it is the only coin you have and only you can determine how it will be spent”
— Carl Sandburg
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool especially about time”
— Richard Feynman
“And when you want something all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it in the fullness of time”
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams and the time to start is now”
— Oprah Winfrey
“Until we can manage time we can manage nothing else”
— Peter Drucker
“The good life is a process not a state of being it is a direction not a destination and time is the road”
— Carl Rogers
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people and time connects us all”
— Frida Kahlo
“Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past”
— T.S. Eliot
“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time”
“Time is the moving image of eternity”
“Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of time and is forgotten through the lapse of time”
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer waiting through all of time”
— Albert Camus
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love and the grace of time”
— Carl Sagan
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child for what is the worth of human life unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history”
— Cicero
“Seize the day put very little trust in tomorrow”
“Time is an illusion lunchtime doubly so”
— Douglas Adams
“Begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life for time waits for no one”
“Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped”
— Tony Robbins
“Free time should be the thing you are trying to maximize because time is the ultimate luxury”
— Naval Ravikant
“Grit is about working on something you care about so much that you are willing to stay loyal to it over time”
— Angela Duckworth
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone”
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”
— Hector Berlioz
“Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.”
— Aeschylus
“Time brings all things to pass.”
“Time is the wisest counsellor of all.”
— Pericles
“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today”
“Yesterday is but todays memory and tomorrow is todays dream”
— Khalil Gibran
“The life span of man running toward death would inevitably carry everything to ruin and destruction if it were not for the faculty of interrupting it and beginning something new through time”
— Hannah Arendt
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