To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
Fling me across the fabric of time and the seas of space. Make me nothing and from nothing-everything.
Space and time are "sensed" not seen. They are created in consciousness which is spaceless and timeless.
In order to be not bound by the tether of time, we must have a relationship with the timeless.
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
Wasting time is worse than death, because death separates you from this world whereas wasting time separates you from Allah
We can sell our time, but we can't buy it back.
Make measurable progress in reasonable time.
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself.
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
I feel like we are at a time of great creativity if we choose to embrace it as such, if we choose to engage the will of our imaginations and imagine another way of being in the world.
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