Quotes on Our Time

...the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come.

These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.

One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.

O' thinkest thou we shall ever meet again? I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our times to come.

Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery. And though we spend most of our time on the surface in the daily details of ordinary existence, most us hunger to connect to this space within, to break through to bliss, to be swept away into something bigger than us.

As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving.

We can sell our time, but we can't buy it back.

Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of the absolutely ordinary.

We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our time. The issue is not between the good and the bad, but between the good and the best. So often, the enemy of the best is the good.

We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.

Our goal should be that we're going to live life to the fullest, pursuing our passions and dreams, and when it comes our time to go, we will have used as much of our potential as possible.

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

But the point is, now, at this moment, or any moment, we're only cross-sections of our real selves. What we really are is the whole stretch of ourselves, all our time, and when we come to the end of this life, all those selves, all our time, will be us - the real you, the real me. And then perhaps we'll find ourselves in another time, which is only another kind of dream.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.

People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

So frequently we mistakenly believe that our children need more things, when in reality their silent pleadings are simply for more of our time.

Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.

You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our time, not only with the votes we cast, but the voices we lift in defense of our most ancient values and enduring ideas.