time

time	The time to relax is when you don’t have the time for it. Sydney J. Harris

Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days
in the year as you make use of. One person gets only a week’s
value out of a year while another person gets a full year’s value out of a week.

Charles Richards

The need to make wise
choices encompasses every
area of our lives. Since
we have time for only a
limited amount of stuff,
we need to choose wisely
what stuff we're going
to allow to take up that
time. Since we have only
a limited amount of time
to spend with friends or
to engage in leisure
activities, we need to
choose our friends and
our activities wisely.

Elaine St. James

It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow
of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually time is neutral.
It can be used either destructively or constructively. I am coming to feel that
the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than the people of good will.
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words
and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly
the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy
more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time
to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving.
No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire
tomorrow. Success depends upon using it wisely—by planning and setting priorities.

Denis Waitely

Minutes are worth more than money.
Spend them wisely.

Thomas P. Murphy

Waste of time is the most extravagant
and costly of all expenses.

Theophrastus

How you spend your time is more important
than how you spend your money.
Money mistakes can be corrected,
but time is gone forever.

David Norris

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

Time is your greatest advisor. Time will tell you if you can waste your life
in illusion and fantasy thoughts, dwelling over past regrets and future
apprehensions. Just ask time, and time will point out that there are no survivors.

A Spiritual Warrior

One who is afraid of time becomes a prey of time.
But time itself becomes a prey
of that one who is not afraid of it.

Nisargadatta

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Many of us cannot grasp the truth that the time allotted to us
on this earth is sufficient for all the Lord has planned for us to do.
We don’t need one minute more or one minute less to get the job done:
Our greatest fear is running out of time. So we hurry through life
trying desperately to get everything done: working overtime, eating
fast food in the car, and racing down the freeway. . . . Today, this
very day, why don’t you think of something that takes a bit of extra
time to do and do it. . . . Maybe it will be an act of generosity or a
moment of kindness directed towards a loved one or a stranger.
Perhaps it will be simply singing a hymn of praise and thanksgiving
because your heart is so full of gratitude. Don’t wait for another
time. Rejoice in this day and be glad.

Luci Swindoll

Know the true value of time! Snatch, seize, and enjoy
every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Philip Chesterfield

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

Jean La Bruyere

Everything is flowing. The Great River of Time takes everything with it, and nothing in this world remains unchanged or stabilized.

Mouni Sadhu

We talk about saving time and killing time when actually
we can't do either. We have no choice but
to spend it at a constant and flowing rate.

Michael LeBeouf

God created time and gave it to us. It is his fundamental gift,
for all other gifts are conditioned upon it. Why should we give
it so grudgingly to his service? Why should we not lavish time
upon the things that God knows and we know are vital things?

E.A. Rountree

What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock,
the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months,
years, centuries--these are but arbitrary and outward signs,
the measure of Time, not Time itself. Time is the Life of the Soul.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Years should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them
or consider them? In the world of wild Nature, time is measured
by seasons only--the bird does not know how old it is--the
rose-tree does not count its birthdays!

Marie Corelli

Time mellows people as it mellows wine, as long as the grapes are good.
You may set out to be a businesswoman or businessman but in the
course of time end up caring for a dying parent, orphaned niece,
or disabled brother. You may encounter illness yourself and end up
being a writer, touching the heartstrings, not the purse strings
of other people. That’s why it’s best to always be true to yourself
and God and to be flexible within His will. He will use you.

Barbara Johnson

Wise people know what time it is in their own lives and in the life of the community.
They know that sensing the kairos (the prepared or ripe moment) is more important
than conforming to the compulsive rhythm of chronological time. Thus, wise people
are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences because
they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all of which are necessary to the
whole. Spring and winter, growth and decay, creativity and fallowness, health and
sickness, power and impotence, and life and death all belong within the economy of being.

Sam Keen