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Time is the continued progress of existence

• Time: The indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.  Oxford Dictionary
• Time: The part of existence that is measured in minutes, days, years, etc., or this process considered as a whole.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Time: The system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.  Dictionary.com
• Time: A non-spatial continuum that is measured in terms of events which succeed one another from past through present to future.  Merriam Webster
• The past,  The future,  Time management,  Live in the present

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Time and its measure are all pervasive in our human world

• One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time. Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession. And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all. Alan Lightman
• One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds. M. Coetzee

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Time is the very flow of our existence …

• Time is the backdrop of our lives and the very fabric of the cosmos. Philip Zimbardo
• Time is the indefinite continued progress of existence and events that occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future. Wikipedia
• I believe in the force of time, the impetus of that dimension that seems to have baffled even the physicists, the power of that force that will, in time, cure every ill, solve every problem, fulfill every nightmare. Time. I see time all about me, like a substance. I see it in the clutter of my apartment, in the fabric of the city, in the lessons that I teach. The tyranny of time, as dictatorial as any god. Simon Mawer

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… the sheath enfolding our experiences

• What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life – the gleam, the quiver, the heartbeat, the immeasurable joy and anguish of being. Ellen Glasgow

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Time is ever present in nature

• Time is insignificant and never a difficulty for Nature. It is always at her disposal and represents an unlimited power with which she accomplishes her greatest and smallest tasks. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
• The great workman of nature is time. Comte Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
• Noon time, when all nature is peculiarly quiet… Washington Irving
• The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are. Antonio Porchia
• We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time. Adam Sedgwick
• Nature

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However, the truth is that time is a mystery …

• Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new… but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design? Paracelsus
• Aside from velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe. You can’t see it or touch it, yet a plumber can charge you upwards of seventy-five dollars per hour for it, without necessarily fixing anything. Dave Barry
• Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed. Charles Colton
• If you do not ask me what time is, I know it; if you ask me, I do not know. Saint Aurelius Augustinus Augustine
• Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them. Charles Lamb
• Mystery

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… a mystery that puzzles even physicists

• The meaning of time has become terribly problematic in contemporary physics. The situation is so uncomfortable that by far the best thing to do is declare oneself an agnostic. Simon Saunders
• The ordinary man (or woman) thinks he knows what time is but cannot say. The learned man, physicist or philosopher, is not sure he knows but is ready to write volumes on the subject of his speculation and ignorance. David S. Landes

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Some assert that time is not real …

• It doubtless seems highly paradoxical to assert that Time is unreal, and that all statements which involve its reality are erroneous. Such an assertion involves a far greater departure from the natural position of mankind than is involved in the assertion of the unreality of Space or of the unreality of Matter. So decisive a breach with that natural position is not to be lightly accepted. And yet in all ages the belief in the unreality of time has proved singularly attractive. J.M.E. McTaggart
• Time is invention and nothing else. Henri Bergson
• Consider that in physics, motion alters time; in psychology, different stimuli alter our perception of time; and in philosophy, there’s disagreement on whether time is even real. Elisabeth Eaves
• Two distinct viewpoints on time divide many prominent philosophers. One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which events occur in sequence. An opposing view is that time does not refer to any kind of actually existing dimension that events and objects “move through”, nor to any entity that “flows”, but that it is instead an intellectual concept that enables humans to sequence and compare events.  This second view, in the tradition of Gottfried Leibniz and Immanuel Kant, holds that space and time “do not exist in and of themselves, but … are the product of the way we represent things”, because we can know objects only as they appear to us. Wikipedia
• Aristotle argued that time has no independent existence on its own. It only subsists when people are around; we bring it into existence through our observations. This is very much in line with modern quantum experiments. No physicist today thinks that time has an independent reality as any sort of “absolute” or universal constant. Robert Lanza
• Even if time is an actual entity, it cannot be a constant like lightspeed or gravity. It flows at different rates. The presence of a gravitational field retards the passage of time, as does rapid motion. Robert Lanza
• In reality, there is no time independent of awareness. The perception of time exists in awareness. There is no time independent of awareness. Anthony Lambert
• The behaviour of time, the object, has clues to its true nature. It can slow down and speed up. Time at the speed of light time ceases to exist.  Anthony Lambert
• The question of time has tormented philosophers for millennia. Happily, we have only two contrasting viewpoints. One is the opinion held by such noted smart people as Isaac Newton, who saw time as part of the fundamental structure of the universe. He believed it to be inherently real. If so, time constitutes its own dimension and stands separate from events, which unfold sequentially within its matrix. This is probably how most people view time. The opposing view, argued for centuries by other smart people such as Immanuel Kant, is that time is not an actual entity. It is not a kind of “container” that events “move through.” In this view, there is no flow to time. Rather, it’s a framework devised by human observers as they attempt to give organization and structure to the vast labyrinth of information whirling in their minds.  Robert Lanza
• There is no way to remove the observer—us—from our perceptions of the world . . . In classical physics, the past is assumed to exist as a definite series of events, but according to quantum physics the past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities. Stephen Hawking
• Time and space do not exist as physical realities. They are perceptions in awareness. Anthony Lambert
• Time has no existence independent of consciousness. Consciousness is always in the ever-present, timeless now.  Anthony Lambert
• We can’t even say (absent the observer) what events have occurred before others. Time and sequencing are meaningless to nature. Robert Lanza
• Only in the realm of polarities does linear and space occur. In reality, time as such does not exist, but rather an eternal now.  Without time, future and past cannot exist.   Peter Erbe

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… an illusion …

• Time is an illusion. Albert Einstein
• Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
• 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
• People like us who believe in physics know that the distinction between the past, the present and the future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Albert Einstein
• Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea. Henri-Frederic Amiel
• If time is an illusion, so too is the continuity in the connection of now. Robert Lanza
• The world of time is an illusion. A Course in Miracles
• Time is a trick, a sleight of hand, a vast illusion in which figures come and go as if by magic. A Course in Miracles
• Time is basically an illusion created by the mind to aid in our sense of temporal presence in the vast ocean of space. Without the neurons to create a virtual perception of the past and the future based on all our experiences, there is no actual existence of the past and the future. All that there is, is the present. Abhijit Naskar,
• Time is only an illusion produced by the succession of our states of consciousness as we travel through eternal duration, and it does not exist where no consciousness exists in which the illusion can be produced; but “lies asleep. P. Blavatsky
• Time, divested of the illusion of duration, is Consciousness. Rupert Spira
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… something that exists only in the mind (in consciousness) …

• From a biocentric point of view, time does not exist in the universe independent of life that notices it, space and time are not absolute realities but rather tools of the human and animal mind. Robert Lanza
• The forward motion of time—of which the movement of the arrow is an embodiment—is not a feature of the external world but a projection of something within us, as we tie together things we are observing. Robert Lanza
• Immanuel Kant, ahead of his time, said that “we must rid ourselves of the notion that space and time are actual qualities in things in themselves . . . all bodies, together with the space in which they are, must be considered nothing but mere representations in us, and exist nowhere but in our thoughts.  Robert Lanza
• Time can also be a place…. Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself. Frank Herbert
• In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle. Charles de Lint
• It is the mind that perceives the ever-present now as a linear flow of time. Peter O. Erbe
• The physical body is conceived and constructed in consciousness as are time and space. All happens within our self. Deepak Chopra
• Time is eternity refracted through the finite mind. Rupert Spira
• Time is imagined to be real only when we have forgotten our true nature of ever-present Awareness and imagined ourselves instead to be limited, located entities. Time and space are born with that thought. Rupert Spira
• Time is thought superimposed upon eternity. Rupert Spira
• Time is what Consciousness looks like from the point of view of thought. Time is Consciousness objectified by thought. Rupert Spira
• What is witnessed is potentiality’s manifesting as actuality, which becomes contextualized as ‘becoming’. The ego superimposes a time track, which is a projection. There is only continuous awareness. Time is a mental construct and an attempt to conceptualize an explanation for sequence. Sequence is itself a conceptualization of the observer and a mentation. The actual Reality is not comprehensible to the mind. As the ego collapses, time vanishes, and all phenomena appear to be in slow motion. David R. Hawkins
• Time is basically an illusion created by the mind to aid in our sense of temporal presence in the vast ocean of space. Without the neurons to create a virtual perception of the past and the future based on all our experiences, there is no actual existence of the past and the future. All that there is, is the present. Abhijit Naskar
• Space and time are “sensed” not seen. They are created in consciousness which is spaceless and timeless. Deepak Chopra
• There is a wonderful continuity of being, the continuous awareness of self, a sense of yourself continuing in time and space. Frederick Lenz
• Consciousness,  The true nature of the world I experience

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… a form of animal sense perception that constructs our reality …

• Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality. Immanuel Kant
• What we call space and time are forms of animal sense perception, rather than external physical objects. Robert Lanza
• To place ourselves as the creator of time and space, not as the subject of it, goes against common sense, life experience, and education. It takes a radical shift of perspective for any of us to intuit that space and time belong solely to animal-sense perception. Robert Lanza
• Time’s nature is seen for what it is—a biocentric fabrication, a biologic creation that is solely a practical operating aid in the mental circuitry of some living organisms, to help with specific functioning activities. Robert Lanza
• The universe may be timeless, but if you imagine breaking it into pieces, some of the pieces can serve as clocks for the others. Time emerges from timelessness. We perceive time because we are, by our very nature, one of those pieces. Craig Callender
• Time, the human dimension, which makes us everything we are. Martin Amis
• Space and time are “sensed” not seen. They are created in consciousness which is spaceless and timeless. Deepak Chopra
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… a conceptual tool of our human understanding …

• Time is not an absolute reality but a feature of our minds. Robert Lanza
• Space and time are neither physical nor fundamentally real. They are conceptual, which means that space and time are of a uniquely subjective nature. They are modes of interpretation and understanding. Robert Lanza
• Time, place and space are illusions, having no existence save in the mind of man which must set limits and bounds in order to understand. Robert E. Howard
• Space and time are not objects or things, but rather tools of our animal understanding. Robert Lanza
• We feel as if we live on the edge of time. That’s a psychologically comfortable place, really, because it means we are still among the living. On the edge of time, tomorrow hasn’t happened. But this subjective feeling of living on the forward edge of time is a persistent illusion, a trick of our attempts to create an intelligible organizational pattern for nature in which one calendar day follows upon another, that spring precedes summer, and that years pass. Time in a biocentric universe is not sequential—however much our habitual perceptions dictate that it is. Robert Lanza
• Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination. Baruch Spinoza
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… a practical measure…

• We say we measure time with clocks, but we see only the hands of the clocks, not time itself. Carlo Rovelli
• Time is not a reality, but a concept or a measure. Antiphon (5th century BC)
• Time can also be a place…. Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself. Frank Herbert
• Time is that which is measured by a clock. This is a sound way of looking at things. A quantity like time, or any other physical measurement, does not exist in a completely abstract way. We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it. It is the definition by the method of measuring a quantity that is the one sure way of avoiding talking nonsense about this kind of thing. Sir Hermann Bondi
• Our clocks do not measure time. … Time is defined to be what our clocks measure.
• Time is neither friend nor enemy it’s just a measurement. Mike Dolan
• We measure the beginning, and progress, and end of the year, by these months, and the days of which they consist; we date all affairs, actions, and accidents of humane life, and reflect back upon them, by the help of this certain character of time, when joined with other measures: as, such a day of such a month, of such a year in some certain period or epocha. William Holder, A Discourse Concerning Time
• What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter … month, years, centuries … these are but the arbitrary and outward signs … the measure of time, not time itself. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives. Susan Glaspell
• Time has no divisions to mark its passage. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. Thomas Mann

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… something we have adopted from the rhythms of nature, the universe and our bodies…

• The sight of day and night, and the months and the revolutions of the years, have created number and have given us conception of time, and the power of inquiring about the nature of the Universe. Plato
• There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and psyche. We eventually succumb to time, it’s true, but time depends on us. We carry it in our muscles and genes, pass it on to the next set of time-factoring creatures, our brown-eyed daughters and jug-eared sons, or how would the world keep going. Never mind the time theorists, the cesium devices that measure the life and death of the smallest silvery trillionth of a second…. We were the only crucial clocks, our minds and bodies, way stations for the distribution of time. Don Delillo, Underworld
• Time is an experience in consciousness. It is metabolized as our biological clock. Deepak Chopra

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… something we use to explain motion

• Time is invented to make motion look simple. Albert Einstein
• Time is defined so that motion looks simple. John Wheeler
• Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion. Anne Carson
• Time is but a phantom dagger that motion lifts to slay itself. Maxwell Boedenheim

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Time, many conceive, is a forward moving arrow and we live at its edge …

• Here we are, alive for a split instant, on the edge of all time… strapped to the front of the time train… We exist on the edge of time.
• Well, we think that time “passes,” flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see. The book is all there, all at once, between its covers. But if you want to read the story and understand it, you must begin with the first page, and go forward, always in order. So the universe would be a very great book, and we would be very small readers. Ursula K. Le Guin
• Imagine time running backwards. People would grow younger instead of older and, after a long life of gradual rejuvenation – unlearning everything they know – they would end as a twinkle in their parents’ eyes. Thomas Kitching
• Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. Anthony G. Oettinger
• We depend on the arrow of time just for our existence. Sean Carroll
• There’s different moments in the history of the universe and time tells you which moment you’re talking about. And then there’s the arrow of time, which give us the feeling of progress, the feeling of flowing or moving through time. Sean Carroll

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… moving irreversibly from past to future …

• The asymmetry of time, the arrow that points from past to future, plays an unmistakable role in our everyday lives: it accounts for why we cannot turn an omelet into an egg, why ice cubes never spontaneously unmelt in a glass of water, and why we remember the past but not the future. And the origin of the asymmetry we experience can be traced all the way back to the orderliness of the universe near the big bang. Every time you break an egg, you are doing observational cosmology. Sean M. Carroll
• The particular aspect of time that I’m interested in is the arrow of time: the fact that the past is different from the future. We remember the past but we don’t remember the future. There are irreversible processes. There are things that happen, like you turn an egg into an omelet, but you can’t turn an omelet into an egg. Sean Carroll
• The arrow of time is about a direction, but it’s not about a speed. The important thing is that there’s a consistent direction. That everywhere through space and time, this is the past and this is the future. Sean Carroll
• Time depends on the position of the observer and the direction in which he looks. Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
• Time is the indefinite continued progress of existence and events that occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future. Wikipedia
• The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory. Henri Bergson
• The Present is a Point just passed. David Russell
• Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires. Charles Caleb Colton
• The past,  The future

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… from order to disorder

• Entropy is time’s arrow. Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
• Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
• One of the few such concepts in physics is that things tend to become less “tidy” as time passes. We describe this using a physical property called entropy that encodes how ordered something is. It turns out entropy is a pretty good way to explain time’s arrow.  Thomas Kitching
• Entropy is just a measure of how disorderly things are. And it tends to grow. That’s the second law of thermodynamics: Entropy goes up with time, things become more disorderly. So, if you neatly stack papers on your desk, and you walk away, you’re not surprised they turn into a mess. You’d be very surprised if a mess turned into neatly stacked papers. That’s entropy and the arrow of time. Entropy goes up as it becomes messier. Sean Carroll
• The irreversibility of time is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos.  Ilya Prigogine
• It is an old story, this irresistible and ceaseless onflow of life and time; time always scattering the flowers of life with a lavish hand along its course… Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Time is a sequence of days …

• Days are stringed instruments and everyone strikes a different note. Kenneth Alfred Evelyn Alexander
• Days are either days or daze according to the temper of the tempter. To the tempestuous, every day is different from every other day, and no day is a mere stitch in Time. Kenneth Alfred Evelyn Alexander

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… and events

• Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. John Archibald Wheeler
• You can have it all. Just not all at once. Oprah Winfrey
• The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once. Albert Einstein

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Others debate the linear nature of time

• For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise. Robert Brault
• People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a nonlinear, non-subjective viewpoint, it’s more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey … stuff. Steven Moffat
• Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. John Archibald Wheeler
• As you read this sentence, you probably think that this moment–right now–is what is happening. The present moment feels special. It is real. However much you may remember the past or anticipate the future, you live in the present. Of course, the moment during which you read that sentence is no longer happening. This one is. In other words, it feels as though time flows, in the sense that the present is constantly updating itself. We have a deep intuition that the future is open until it becomes present and that the past is fixed. As time flows, this structure of fixed past, immediate present and open future gets carried forward in time. This structure is built into our language, thought and behavior. How we live our lives hangs on it. Yet as natural as this way of thinking is, you will not find it reflected in science. The equations of physics do not tell us which events are occurring right now–they are like a map without the “you are here” symbol. The present moment does not exist in them, and therefore neither does the flow of time. Craig Callender
• Some think of past, present and future as existing simultaneously
• All time exists. That is the truth…. If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could we leave it behind? Gene Wolfe
• Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. Thomas Strearns (T.S.) Eliot
• If life were a movie, physical reality would be the entire DVD: Future and past frames exist just as much as the present one. Tegmark
• All moments exist equally, at once– it’s only our consciousness that distinguishes the present from the past or future. Elisabeth Eaves
• People like us who believe in physics know that the distinction between the past, the present and the future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. Albert Einstein
• All incarnations are lived at once, and yet there does seem to be a linear sense of time when you’re in the vortex of time and space, when your consciousness is fixated in a body. Frederick Lenz
• Eternalism: All layers of the time exist simultaneously, but the measurement is determined by the observer. What they see depends on which point they are looking at.  Wikipedia
• In a universe in which past, present, and future came into existence all at once, complete from beginning to end, with all possible outcomes of every life woven through the tapestry, there is no chance, only choice, no luck, but only consequences. Dean Koontz
• Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses. I don’t necessarily believe in linear time. Everything happens all at once forever. Frederick Lenz
• Life is like a novel. Read one page at a time but all existing simultaneously. Rupert Spira
• Since the tapestry of all time has already been woven, everything I could ever want to happen in my life already exists in that infinite, nonphysical plane. Anita Moorjani
• How does the clairvoyant see the future? We imagine for a moment that we enjoy a good movie in a cinema theatre.  Now the story we are following exists, or is recorded in its entirety, on a reel of film.  The entire story is there from the beginning to the end.  However, to experience this story, we have to wind off the oil and look at each frame singularly in sequence, that is, in a linear fashion.  Although the whole story exists as such already already, to experience it we must retrace each step in a linear fashion.  Thus, time is born.  However, let us knot fall into the mental trap of assuming that lives are predestined. To sit back in a fatalistic attitude, and seeing our fate as being all in the stars” anyway, only shows that he who feels this way has written this fatalistic attitude in his book of life in the first place.  Now he is retracing it.  Thus he shall learn from it how not to be.  That was his reason for writing this part into his script.  Peter Erbe
• You create time by joining events together. But they don’t join together; there’s no separativity. Frederick Lenz

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Some even conceive of time as a circle

• Previously, Newton considered time to be moving like a straight arrow which unerringly flies forward toward its target. Nothing could deflect or change the course of this arrow once it was shot. Einstein, however, showed that time was more like a mighty river, moving forward but often meandering through twisting valleys and plains. The presence of matter or energy might momentarily shift the direction of the river, but overall the river’s course was smooth: It never abruptly ended or jerked backward. However, Gödel showed that the river of time could be smoothly bent backward into a circle. Rivers, after all, have eddy currents and whirlpools. In the main, a river may flow forward, but at the edges there are always side pools where water flows in a circular motion. Michio Kaku
• In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely. Alan Lightman
• Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there is the circle or the cycle, without which there is chaos, meaningless succession of instants, a world without clocks or seasons or promises. Ursula K. Le Guin
• And therein lies the whole of man’s plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition. Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• Time seemed worm-holed and faulted, honeycombed in mazes that crossed and recrossed. William Gay, Provinces of Night
• And therein lies the whole of man’s plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition. Milan Kundera
• Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly. Alan Lightman

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According to the theory of relativity, real time can slow down and speed up

• Einstein’s special theory of relativity, shows that time is relative: the faster you move relative to me, the slower time will pass for you relative to my perception of time. Thomas Kitching
• The total number of people who understand relativistic time, even after eighty years since the advent of special relativity, is still much smaller than the number of people who believe in horoscopes. Yuval Ne’eman
• Travel in a rocket at 99 percent the speed of light and you’ll enjoy the consequential sevenfold time dilation: from your perspective nothing has changed; you have aged a decade in ten years’ worth of travel. But upon returning to Earth you’d find that seventy years have passed and none of your old friends are still alive to greet you. Robert Lanza
• Einstein’s special theory of relativity shows that space is not a constant and therefore not inherently substantive. High-speed travel makes intervening space dramatically shrink. Robert Lanza
• There are places in the universe where only a single second of events pass while a million years’ worth of activities simultaneously elapses here on Earth. Yet both feel a normal passage of time. Robert Lanza
• Time slows down for moving objects, especially as they travel closer to the speed of light. Peter Atkins

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Subjectively, time can also feel that it speeds up and slows down …

• How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you’re on. Zall’s Second Law
• 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 always relative…. For the terminally ill, six months are a lifetime, and not a very long one. To a three-year-old waiting for Christmas, it’s an eternity so distant it’s not even worth thinking about. John Saul
• There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. Vladimir Lennis
• If time flies when you’re having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don’t think you’re having enough. Jef Mallett
• Time … advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent. Charles Caleb Colton
• Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail…  Ivan Turgenev
• We live in time – it holds us and molds us – but I never felt I understood it very well. And I’m not referring to theories about how it bends and doubles back, or may exist elsewhere in parallel versions. No, I mean ordinary, everyday time, which clocks and watches assure us passes regularly: tick-tock, click-clock. Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing – until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return. Julian Barnes
• The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass. David Eagleman

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… and even disappear

• Brain time is intrinsically subjective. Try this exercise. Put this book down and go look in a mirror. Now move your eyes back and forth, so that you’re looking at your left eye, then at your right eye, then at your left eye again. When your eyes shift from one position to the other, they take time to move and land on the other location. But here’s the kicker: you never see your eyes move.” There’s no evidence of any gaps in your perception—no darkened stretches like bits of blank film—yet much of what you see has been edited out. Your brain has taken a complicated scene of eyes darting back and forth and recut it as a simple one: your eyes stare straight ahead. Where did the missing moments go?   David Eagleman

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Sometimes time seems to slow down …

• At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new. William Makepeace Thackeray
• Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is. Mario Benedetti
• Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular months—they’re like dog months. Rainbow Rowell

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… and we wish it would speed up

• Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill. Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
• Time cannot be spurred on like a horse. Kobo Abe

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At other times, time seems to fly and we wish it would slow down

• She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward. Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
• Time! arrest your flight, and you, propitious hours, stay your course. Alphonse de Lamartine
• Time, pause in thy flight! and you, propitious hours, Pause on your rapid ways. Let us enjoy the springtime of our powers, The fairest of all days! Alphonse de Lamartine
• It’s a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)
• Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station. Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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In special moments, we lose all sense of time

• In rare moments of clarity and mental emptiness, or when danger or novel experience forces a one-pointed focus upon one’s consciousness, time vanishes, replaced by an ineffably enjoyable feeling of freedom. Robert Lanza
• How often the morning sun has surprised him working on some chart which he had begun at night! And how often night has surprised him at a task begun at the break of day!  Cicero
• Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly. Ivan Turgenev
• When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination. Rollo May
• Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you – sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever. Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium
• Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality. John Muir
• Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this. Dave Eggers
• How to stop time: kiss. How to travel in time: read. How to escape time: music. How to feel time: write. How to release time: breathe. Matt Haig

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Time slows down for the young …

• When you are nine years old, what you remember seems forever; for you remember everything and everything is important and stands big and full and fills up Time and is so solid that you can walk around and around it like a tree and look at it. You are aware that time passes, that there is a movement in time, but that is not what Time is. Time is not a movement, a flowing, a wind then, but it is, rather, a kind of climate in which things are, and when a thing happens it begins to live and keeps on living and stands solid in Time like the tree that you can walk around. And if there is a movement, the movement is not Time itself, any more than a breeze is climate, and all the breeze does is to shake a little the leaves on the tree which is alive and solid. Robert Penn Warren
• Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes. Malcolm de Chazal
• Sweet childish days, that were as long as twenty days are now. William Wordsworth
• Time is a game played beautifully by children. Heraclitus of Ephesus

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… and for those in love …

• 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 endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it. Tanith Lee
• Many and most moments go by with us hardly aware of their passage. But love and hate and fear cause time to snag you, to drag you down like a spider’s web holding fast to a doomed fly’s wings. And when you’re caught like that you’re aware of every moment and movement and nuance. Walter Mosley
• Youth

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… and for those who suffer …

• aching time! O moments big as years! John Keats
• Time is the only true purgatory. Samuel Butler
• I pondered long the book of suffering, till Time stood before me saying, “There is a quicker way,” and he thrust his flaming brand against my breast. Muriel Strode Lieberman
• Suffering

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… and speeds up the older you get

• Nothing weighs more heavily on age than time. Nothing has more meaning … Now time becomes, with a kind of ruthless honesty, what it has always been: life’s most precious commodity. The only difference is that, finally, we know it. Joan Chittister
• In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long. Nikita Ivanovich Panin
• Getting older gracefully

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We need to live less by the tyranny of the clock …

• A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time. Susan Glaspell
• Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. William Faulkner
• What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives. Susan Glaspell
• I never follow the clock: hours were made for man, not man for hours. François Rabelais
• Put away your watch every now and then to experience a timeless state of peace. Challenge yourself to go clock-free for a day. Christine Louise Hohlbaum
• The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. Tillie Olsen
• To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom. Betrand Russell

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… and more from the rhythms of deep time within us …

• So, this is what the slow lane is about, I realized. Sipping and savoring tiny moments, stopping the clock and slipping out of time, feeling my own heart begin to synchronize with the rhythms of nature and being in the presence of the sacred. Judith Rich
• We have surface time, which is the time we move through every day, but we need to reach the rhythms of deep time. Like the ocean is all waves and movement on the surface, we need to sink through time to the depths where the true rhythm lies.  John O’Donohue
• He began to suspect another, deeper layer of time, a time of stone and cloud and tree to which the time of clocks and calendars was a gross mockery cobbled up by savages. William Gay
• I don’t suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don’t have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn’t hear. WIilliam Faulkner
• Is Time outside me, I started wondering in high school. When things began to go fast. Or is Time inside me. If OUTSIDE you have to keep pace with f***ing clocks and calendars. No slacking off. If INSIDE, you do what you want. Whatever. You create your own Time. Like breaking the hands off a clock like I did once so it’s just the clock face there looking at you. Joyce Carol Oate
• Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that our inward lives are governed by something much less regular — an imaginative impulse cutting through the dictates of daily time, and leaving us free to ignore the boundaries of here and now and pass like lightning along the coil of pure time, that is, the circle of the universe and whatever it does or does not contain. Jeanette Winterson
• Put away your watch every now and then to experience a timeless state of peace. Challenge yourself to go clock-free for a day. Christine Louise

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… the time dictated by the rhythms of our hearts

• I hear the heartthrob of time in my veins. Terri Guillemets
• We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.  Philip James Bailey
• Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time. Jorge Luis Borges
• The heart

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Time marches on, never ceasing …

• Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear? Jack London
• Every day a thread makes a skein in the year. Dutch Proverb
• It is an old story, this irresistible and ceaseless onflow of life and time; time always scattering the flowers of life with a lavish hand along its course… Hamilton Wright Mabie
• While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back. Alan Lightman
• Why won’t they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can’t they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping — rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year’s and Easter and Christmas — But, goodness, why need they do it? John Dos Passos
• Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed. Miranda July
• It’s funny, don’t you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out . Markus Zusak 
• That time does not run backward, that is its wrath; “That which was”–that is the name of the stone it cannot roll. Friedrich Nietzsche
• The avalanche of time sweeps everything before it. Every individual instant hurtles into oblivion, drowning out the obliteration of the instant immediately preceding it, and then it too disappears under the onslaught of the next and the next and the next. When the avalanche has shuddered past for a long enough time, the perception of the past evolves. Distant events grow beyond mere history and take on the weight of legend. David Gerrold
• The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do. Neil Gaiman
• You may delay, but time will not. Benjamin Franklin

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… at an ever more rapid pace …

• The days are such a repetition of each other that they sometimes seem very long, but when one pauses and looks back one starts at the accumulation of departed time, and deplores the swiftness of the seasons. Robert Grant
• But at my back I always hear Time’s winged chariot hurrying near. Andrew Marvell
• Someday man will travel at the speed of light, of small interest to those of us still trying to catch up to the speed of time. Robert Brault
• Time flies on restless pinions — constant never. Friedrich Schiller
• The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. S. Lewis
• Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It’s passing, yet I’m the one who’s doing all the moving. I’m not the station, I’m not the stop: I’m the train. I’m the train. Martin Amis
• What’s that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time! H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
• No matter how you hurry, you will notice at the end of the day that you traveled at the speed of time. Robert Brault

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… like a fast-moving current …

• 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. Marcus Aurelius
• Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire. Jorge Luis Borges
• The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not. Thomas Carlyle

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… dictating our lives

• Time is a master of ceremonies who always ends up putting us in our rightful place, we advance, stop and retreat according to his orders, our mistake lies in imagining that we can catch him out. Jose Saramago
• It’s time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives. José Saramago

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Time is a kind of conqueror that devours all things …

• 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. Bertrand Russell
• Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time. Robert Brault
• Who shall contend with time–unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors, and lord of desolation? Henry Kirke White
• At nineteen, it seems to me, one has a right to be arrogant; time has usually not begun its stealthy and rotten subtractions. It takes away your hair and your jump-shot, according to a popular country song, but in truth it takes away a lot more than that. Stephen King
• The tyranny of time, as dictatorial as any god. Simon Mawer
• Time treads down empires. Dugald Moore
• Time is the vehicle that carries everything into nothing. Paul Chatfield
• time! swift devourer of all created things! Leonardo da Vinci
• Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses. Jorge Luis Borges
• Time is but a phantom dagger that motion lifts to slay itself. Maxwell Boedenheim
• Time antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things. Sir Thomas Browne
• The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules. James Branch Cabell
• The devouring tooth of time.
• He who toys with Time, trifles with a frozen serpent, which afterwards turns upon the hand that indulged the sport, and inflicts a deadly wound. Eliza Cook

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… a fire that consumes …

• Time wastes our bodies and our wits, but we waste time, so we are quits.
• We are all burning in time, but each is consumed at his own speed. Jack Gilbert
• Time is the fire in which we burn. Delmore Schwartz
• Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. Delmore Schwartz

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… making us old

• Time’s chariot-wheels make their ruts in the fairest face. Liza Cook
• Time sure kicks the shit out of people. Dan Simmons
• Time is the best avenger. Ella Wheeler Wicox
• Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone. Jeanette Winterson
• And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit. Martin Amis
• There is nothing fatherly about time and what it does to us, either. Dean Koontz
• What a slut time is. She screws everybody. John Green
• Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all! His factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes.   Charles Dickens
• Our bodies are the burial grounds of dead time. A. Sachs
• Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.

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Time is a thief …

• There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. Napoleon I
• Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right — it holds my golden time! Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Time is the only thief we can’t get justice against. Terri Guillemets
• Time’s the thief of memory. Stephen King
• Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings. John Updike
• Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself. Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
• The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another. Horace
• Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death. Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
• Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Stephen King
• Stealing

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… a furtive thief we can only catch glimpses of

• We cannot see time directly; we catch glimpses only of its reflections. Terri Guillemets
• Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. Faith Baldwin
• Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!…. his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes. Charles Dickens
• Time’s flying wheel leaves little trace behind. Isaac Mclellan
• Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever. Anthony Doerr

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We talk about killing time …

• As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. Henry David Thoreau
• If each of us can be helped by science to live a hundred years, what will it profit us if our hates and fears, our loneliness and our remorse will not permit us to enjoy them? What use is an extra year or two to the man who “kills” what time he has? David Neiswanger
• How unthinking must those unhappy persons be, who make it a common excuse for idle and pernicious amusements, that they do it to kill Time. Wellins Calcott
• Killing time is not an easy job. Haruki Murakami
• That was the truly horrifying thing about it: the sense of time as an enemy, to be fought tooth and nail–but there was so much of it; you killed an hour, but what good did that do when there were thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions more hours just waiting to take its place?   J. Parker

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… while in reality it is time that kills us

• Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. Dion Boucicault
• In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us. Osbert Sitwell
• You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you’re fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal. Martin Amis
• Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Louis Hector Berlioz
• I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. William Shakespeare  
• Once I lived in time as a fish in water, breathing it, drinking it, sustained by it. Now I kill time and time kills me. M. Coetzee
• Death

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The passing of time is the running out of our lives …

• Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go. Henry Austin Dobson
• We are only but guests at Time’s tea party. Terri Guillemets
• For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay. Simone de Beauvoir
• I’ve always been keenly aware of the passing of time. I’ve always thought that I was old. Even when I was twelve, I thought it was awful to be thirty. I felt that something was lost. At the same time, I was aware of what I could gain, and certain periods of my life have taught me a great deal. But, in spite of everything, I’ve always been haunted by the passing of time and by the fact that death keeps closing in on us. Simone de Beauvoir
• Indifferent to the affairs of men, time runs out, precise, heedless, exact, and immutable in rhythm. Erwin Sylvanus
• One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch
• How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness how the time has flown. How did it get so late so soon? Seuss
• Hour-glasses remind us, not only of how time flies, but at the same time of the dust into which we shall one day decay. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
• Time … brings us everything we have and are, then comes with a back-loader and starts taking it all away. Jane Hirshfield
• Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. Haruki Murakami

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… an ever-present reminder to embrace life before our time runs out

• It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new growth on an evergreen, the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue, the color of our kids’ eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is so easy to exist instead of live. Unless you know there is a clock ticking. Anna Quindlen
• The hour-glass is a reminder not only of Time’s quick flight, but concurrently also of the dust to which we shall at last return. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
• With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have. Mitch Albom
• Time is the warp of life…. Oh, tell the young, the gay, the fair to weave it well.
• Time is passing. Each day is a glorious opportunity to live and enjoy. Today I will let the past die – all the undone things, all the misjudged things… Today, there are new pleasures, new challenges, new magic. Ruth Carter Stapleton
• As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow. Horacle
• Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead. Hans Christian Andersen
• Our time is brief, and it will pass no matter what we do. So let us have purpose in spending it. Let us spend it so that our time matters to each of us, and matters to all those whose lives we touch. Philip Zimbardo
• Time is short. Seventy years in the eye of youthful fancy seems a vast and almost boundless space; but in the estimate of sage experience, and in the full view of eternity, they contract to a span and dwindle to a point. John Thornton
• Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Steve Jobs
• Time, ghost-like, glides by us invisible, unseen, amid the glare and turmoil of the day; but in the gloom and silence of the midnight hour he stands revealed, and with one hand points mockingly to the wasted, marred past, and with the other towards the future; he whispers, in the lonely hour, into our ears the startling, fateful word, “Eternity.” James Platt
• Embrace the gift of today

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We think of time as being past, present and future

• All time exists. That is the truth…. If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could we leave it behind? Gene Wolfe
• One hurries through, even though there’s time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.   Scott Fitzgerald
• Time makes us all a prisoner of the present, forever transitioning from our own past into an unknown future. Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Time past is a bitter memory; time present a constant struggle; time to come a fearful blank. R. E. Raspe
• We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams. Jeremy Irons
• Past, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future. These two grand divisions of Eternity, of which the one is continually effacing the other, are entirely unlike. The one is dark with sorrow and disappointment, the other bright with prosperity and joy…. Yet the Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one-the knowledge and the dream. Ambrose Bierce
• The past,  The future

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We think of the present as a narrow strip between the gulfs of past and future

• How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear. Marcus Aurelius
• Time — that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. Charles Caleb Colton
• The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door. Frank Herbert
• Past time is finite, future time is infinite. Edwin Powell Hubble
• At any given moment in time, we are at the meeting place of two great eternities, the past that has endured forever and the future that is before us, until the last syllable of time. We cannot live in either of these eternities, even for a split second. Trying to do so will damage our minds and then our bodies. Dale Carnegie
• I am the ages, with infinity stretched between my shores. Muriel Strode Lieberman
• We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. Victor Hugo
• We are an episode between two oblivions. Thomas Nagel
• Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past. Marcus Aurelius
• We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float. Teju Cole

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We think of present time as something that moves forever forwards to become past time

• The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory. Henri Bergson
• How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity. Augustine of Hippo
• Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present. Leonardo da Vinci
• The Present is a Point just passed. David Russell
• Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires. Charles Caleb Colton

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The truth is that the present is actually the only time there is

• God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is. Marianne Williamson
• In terms of our inner lives, no time exists except for what is happening in the present moment. Joan Halifax Roshi
• It’s being here now that’s important. There’s no past and there’s no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can’t relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don’t know if there is one. George Harrison
• Nothing keeps. There is one law in the universe: NOW. Alfred Sutro
• Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have. Eckhart Tolle
• Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was — only is. William Faulkner
• A line is not made up of points. … In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible ‘nows.’  Aristotle
• Whenever you note the time on the clock, realize that it is now—right now—later than it has ever been. Kenneth L. Franklin
• No two moments are identical in a conscious being. Henri Bergson
• Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. Kurt Vonnegut
• Divine consciousness has no past, no future, because it is never interrupted, like man’s, by death or limitation. Eternal consciousness has one time—the ever present. God looks through the window of infinite consciousness on the films of finite happenings of the past, present, and future shown on the screen of time and space, continuously moving backward and forward in an eternal now. Paramahansa Yogananda
• For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end. Erwin Schrodinger
• In Spirit there is no past or future, only the everlasting Present. It is in the relativistic consciousness of persons under the influence of maya that Eternity appears separated into past, present, and future. God always is, and His immortal omniscience is not compartmentalized by the dimensional delusions of time and space; He beholds everything as happening in the infinitude of His Being now. Jesus expressed that consciousness by saying, “where I am,” instead of “where I will be after the death of my mortal body”; and later when he said: “Before Abraham was, I am.”* [John 8:58 ] Paramahansa Yogananda
• Now is all that is real. The past is a belief. The future is a belief. Neither exist independently of awareness.  The past has no independent reality except to provide context to Now.  Anthony Lambert
• Of the three categories of time, past and future are not experienced by any, except when they appear in the present. Sri Atmananda Krishna Menon
• The line of time along which we are supposedly moving is never experienced. It is simply an idea and an image. And that idea and image, along with all other sensations and perceptions, is always Now. Rupert Spira
• There is the appearance of a succession of nows moving through time. In reality, there is only the ever-present now which exists in timeless awareness.  Anthony Lambert
• This instant is the only time there is. A Course in Miracles
• Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own. Jead de la Bruyere
• Now is a priceless gift

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Past and future exist only as thoughts arising now

• The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. To think about it at all is therefore to think about illusions. A Course in Miracles
• Simply asked yourself the question, “Have I ever had, or would it ever be possible to have an experience that was not now?” Is the past or the future ever an actual experience or is it simply a thought?  See that the past and future are thoughts only. See that we have no experience of a past or a future. We experience a thought about the past or future but never the past or future itself.  Rupert Spira
• In reality, the future and the past are false constructs. The future is little more than our faulty guesses about one outcome out of many possibilities; the past is an error-riddled set of recollections, filled with selective retention and ego-driven biases. Barry Ritholtz
• The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now. Bill Cosby
• I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. Alan W. Watts
• The past and future do not exist separate from awareness. They are just thoughts arising in the ever present now. Anthony Lambert

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It is only memory (thoughts arising now) that provides existence with sense of continuity

• It is your memory that makes you think the world continues. Myself, I don’t live by memory. I see the world as it is, a momentary appearance in consciousness. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• If time is an illusion, so too is the continuity in the connection of now. Robert Lanza
• Memories are simply that—signals from brain cells, neurons firing in the present moment. If the past is an idea that can only occur in the here and now, and the future is also just a concept happening strictly in the present, there seems nothing but now. Robert Lanza
• You cannot compare this present experience with a past experience. You can only compare it with a memory of the past, which is a part of the present experience. Alan Watts
• Memory

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Live in present time …

• No use thinking of the past for its gone, don’t think of the future because it has to come, think of the present because thats where you are. Kazi Shams
• The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have. Rollo May
• The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts. Betrand Russell
• It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. Jim Bishop
• Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future. Jesse Conrad
• Shut off yesterday and the past. This time is dead. Shut off tomorrow and the future This time is not yet born. Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession. Dale Carnegie
• Be content to live the only time that we possibly can, from when we wake up until when we sleep. Anyone can get through one day, no matter what their challenges. This is all that life really means. Every day is a new life to a wise man. Life is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour and moment. Dale Carnegie
• Happiness is present time, it has nothing to do with the future. Robert Holden
• The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life. “Why” I answered without a thought, “NOW.” David Grayson
• Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past. And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence. Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. … It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning. Alan Lightman
• Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time. T. S. Eliot
• There is no time like the pleasant. George Bergman
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… living one moment at a time

• But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. Benjamin Disraeli
• Overcoming fear and worry can be accomplished by living a day at a time or even a moment at a time. Your worries will be cut down to nothing. Robert Anthony
• If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves. Maria Edgeworth

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It is past and future that veil God

• Past and future veil God from our sight; Burn up both of them with fire. How long Wilt thou be partitioned by these segments, like a reed? So long as a reed is partitioned, it is not privy to secrets, Nor is it vocal in response to lip and breathing. Jalal-uddin
• Rejoice in God all the time, says St. Paul. He rejoices all the time who rejoices above time and free from time. Three things prevent a man from knowing God. The first is time, the second is corporeality, the third is multiplicity. That God may come in, these things must go out except thou have them in a higher, better way: multitude summed up to one in thee. Meister Eckhart
• Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time. And not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal. Meister Eckhart
• God

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Think of time not as a tyrant but a precious gift

• How rapidly time urges his flight; sometimes as a relentless, unsparing destroyer; but oftener as a swift-winged and beautiful angel; changing, yet not taking away this world’s blessings: making our past sorrows look dim in the distance; opening many flowers of pleasure on our way, and gradually ripening our souls for the great eternity.William Chambers
• Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence–neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish–it is an imponderably valuable gift. Maya Angelou
• Time is the most precious gift you can give to someone, because if you give someone your time. It’s a part of your life that you will never get back. Gloria Tesch
• I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death. Ingrid Betancourt
• When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you’ll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time. Rick Warren
• All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that. Baltasar Gracian
• Each thread of the tapestry woven by time is precious, since all the faces that have disappeared from the earth are projected on it by our memory. But even without any face projected there, and without any of my dead reappearing there, it still keeps in my eyes the splendor of being a season of time, mankind’s time, the time in which our destiny will have been experienced and inscribed, among millions of others. François Mauriac
• Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own. Jead de la Bruyere
• Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. Ray Kurzweil
• Life is a gift

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It is commonly said that time heals …

• And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once again – so that I can start a new path, my own path, the one that will make me whole again. Jack Canfield
• Given enough time and distance, the heart will always heal. Laura Fitzgerald
• Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs. Jim Henson
• Only time conquers time and its burdens. Dean Koontz
• Time cleanses what it touches over time. Aeschylus
• Time eases all things. Sophocles
• Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn’t, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay. Emma Forrest
• Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Blaise Pascal (Pensees)
• Time heals what reason cannot. Seneca
• Time is a herb that cures all Diseases. Benjamin Franklin
• Time is a very healing place, one in which you can grow. Denise Tanner
• Time is the great physician. Benjamin Disraeli
• Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
• When things don’t please you, the best medicine is to swallow a little tincture of time. Ken Alstad
• Without Time’s swiftness, which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment. William Blake
• The days and months come as angels with healing in their wings. Under their touch aching regret passes into tender memory; into hands that were empty new joys are softly pressed; and the heart that was like the trees stripped of its leaves and beaten by winter’s tempests is clothed again with the green of spring. George S. Merriam
• Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. Hippocrates
• Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry. Bret Harte
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… although not all agree on this

• Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary. Ivy Compton- Burnett
• Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go. Roy T. Bennett
• Time doesn’t heal. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happened. It doesn’t heal anything. I don’t know how or what does the healing, but it isn’t Time. Mercedes Lackey
• They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite. Cassandra Clare
• There are memories that time does not erase… Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable. Cassandra Clare
• It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

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Time teaches

• Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Louis Hector Berlioz
• Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two. Lynsay Sands
• Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. Delmore Schwartz
• Time as he grows old teaches all things. Aeschylus
• Teaching,  Learning

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Time counsels

• Time gives good advice. Spanish proverb
• Time is the wisest counsellor of all. Pericles
• Time! the corrector when our judgments err. Lord Byron
• Man’s most prudent counselor is time. Publilius Syrus
• No preacher is listened to but time; which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have tried in vain to put into our heads. Jonathan Swift

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Time reveals

• Time’s glory is to command contending kings, to unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light. William Shakespeare
• The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown. Nothing is impossible. Sophocles
• Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. Benjamin Disraeli
• Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth. Francois Rabelais
• Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put. Euripides
• Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks. Euripides
• Time will explain. Jane Austen
• Truth was the only daughter of Time. Leonardo da Vinci
• Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee. Immanuel Kant
• Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife. Johannes Kepler
• Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature. Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Wisdom does not inspect, but behold. We must look a long time before we can see. Henry David Thoreau
• Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, powerless against truth. Thomas Henry Huxley
• 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
• Time is making fools of us again. K. Rowling
• Time is the only true fortune-teller. James Lendall Basford

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Time ripens

• Time ripens all things. Miguel De Cervantes
• Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth. Francois Rabelais
• Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest. Amos Bronson Alcott

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Time cools and clarifies

• Time cools, time clarifies, no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. Thomas Mann
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Time brings change and evolution

• They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. Andy Warhol
• This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change. Taylor Swift
• Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. Thomas Hardy
• Time is the father of mutability. Solon
• The secrets of evolution are death and time—the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations. Carl Sagan
• Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. Faith Baldwin
• For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
• Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.  Robert Herrick
• Time begets more than fiction can create. Edward Counsel
• Time brings all things to pass. Aeschylus
• Change,  Evolution

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Time provides a framework

• The reality is that time is absolutely indispensable to family life. It is the framework around which all other benefits are built. … It takes time to teach, pray, hug, apologize.  Ray Guarendi

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The gift of time is an expression of love

• Children spell love… T-I-M-E. Anthony P. Witham
• The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now. Rick Warren
• Love

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Time is the very stuff that life is made of

• Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life. Alan Lakein
• To live means to experience–through doing, feeling, thinking. Experience takes place in time, so time is the ultimate scarce resource we have.  Over the years, the content of experience will determine the quality of life. Therefore one of the most essential decisions any of us can make is about how one’s time is allocated or invested.  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin
• Time isn’t a commodity, something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life.  When anyone asks you to give your time, they’re really asking for a chunk of your life.  Antoinette Bosco
• What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make. Ray Kurzweil
• Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case. Alan Lightman
• The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. Henry David Thoreau, Walden
• Time is a keyhole…. We sometimes bend and peer through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do–the wind that blows through the keyhole–is the breath of all the living universe. Stephen King

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Time is a valuable resource …

• Your greatest resource is your time. Brian Tracy
• Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. Theophrastus
• Time is like a snowflake–it melts away while we try to decide what to do with it.
• Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. M. Scott Peck
• Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it.  Jim Rohn
• Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.  William Penn
• Every day 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
• We shall never have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is. Arnold Bennett

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… more valuable than money …

• An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth. Bonnie Friedman
• As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time. John Mason
• Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time. Margaret Bonnano
• Controlled time is our true wealth. Richard Buckminster Fuller
• He who robs you of your time steals your greatest treasure. James Lendall Basford
• Men have contrived instruments to measure the motion of time, but they have no scales to weigh, no figures to compute, no words to describe its value. John Thornton
• Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely. Thomas P. Murphy
• Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman. George Gissing
• Riches are chiefly good because they give us time. Charles Lamb
• Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence — neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish — it is an imponderably valuable gift. Maya Angelou
• Those who understand the value of time use it as prudent people do their money–they make a little go a great way. Eliza Cook
• Time can’t be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different. J orge Luis Borges
• Time is money. Benjamin Franklin
• Time is more precious than gold, more precious than diamonds, more precious than oil or any valuable treasures. It is time that we do not have enough of; it is time that causes the war within our hearts, and so we must spend it wisely. Cecelia Ahern
• Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you can’t get more time. Jim Rohn
• Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose. Thomas Edison
• Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. Carl Sandburg
• Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses. Theophrastus
• Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life. Michael Leboeuf
• When you play it too safe, you’re taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we’re given. Barbara Sher
• Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn’t buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure?
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… for time is finite and cannot be recovered

• Time matters because we are finite, because time is the medium in which we live our lives. Pillip Zimbardo
• Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions. John Randolph
• Time is your most precious commodity and it is non-renewable.  Robin Sharma
• Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back. Harvey MacKay
• Each of us is given a pocketful of time to spend however we may. We may use what we will. We waste what we will. But we can never get back a day. Roger Wilcox
• Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Lost time is never found again. Benjamin Franklin
• Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. Samuel Smiles
• Time is the one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain a friend; one may lose and regain money; opportunity once spurned may come again; but the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits. Most careers are made or marred in the hours after supper. C.R. Lawton
• 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. Denis Waitely
• Can’t bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. James Joyce
• The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. Henry David Thoreau, Walden
• There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want. Bill Watterson
• One thing you can’t recycle is wasted time. Harold V. Melchert
• It’s such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it. Mitch Albom
• Love and time, those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent. Gary Jennings
• It seems to be not the vast things, but the immense multitude of little, like insects in a forest, which eat up the fruit of time. James Vila Blake
• You can’t make up for lost time. You can only do better in the future. Ashley Ormon
• The ancients painted time in the form of an old man with a large tuft of hair on his forehead, but bald behind, to teach us, that, if we catch him not as he comes, it will be impossible after he has passed by. John Thornton

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Despite time being our most precious resource, we often waste it

• Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it.  Jim Rohn
• I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. Bernard Berenson
• In zen, it is a cardinal sin to waste time. To waste time is to squander the here and now, which, if you think about it, is all that we have. Philip T. Sudo
• It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. Henry Ford
• If you waste time, time will waste you.
• Time is what we want most, but…what we use worst. Willaim Penn
• Waste

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Time wasted comes at a huge price

• There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess. Sir Aubrey de Vere
• Don’t waste a moment, for wasted moments send you on the downward course. Buddha
• The biggest mistake you can make in life is to waste your time. Jerry Bruckner

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Our lives are too short for us to waste time

• Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time. It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. Leo Buscaglia
• How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever. Leo Buscaglia
• Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. Victor Hugo
• Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness–if you had little time left to live – you would waste precious little of it! Well, I’m telling you…you do have a terminal illness: It’s called birth. You don’t have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason – or you will never be at all. Dan Millman
• It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. … The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully. Seneca
• Life is too short to waste on things that don’t matter. Patrick Dixon
• Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough. Benjamin Franklin
• Human life is precious and one should just not waste it by idling away his time. Sam Veda
• I wouldn’t waste a day, not an hour, not a moment. Take what you want and damn caution. Live, enjoy. Feed ravenously. Or the biggest regret you’ll have at the end of your life is wasted time. Nora Roberts
• The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. Jack London
• Time is life. It is irreversible and irreplaceable. To waste your time is to waste your life, but to master your time is to master your life and make the most of it. Alan Lakein
• Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything. Benjamin Franklin
• Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Steve Jobs
• Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. Samuel Johnson
• Nothing is more precious than time, and those who misspend it are the greatest of all prodigals. Theophrastus
• The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time. Dante Alighieri
• Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we’d find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. Ray Kurzweil
• The fleetingness of life

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Waste your time and you waste your life and yourself …

• Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life. Alan Lakein
• Time is life. To waste your time is to waste your life. Merrill Douglass
• Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life. Michael Leboeuf
• We say we waste time, but that is impossible – we waste ourselves. Alice Bloch
• If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of. Bruce Lee
• Time is life. When you run out of time you run out of life. Jerry Bruckner
• A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. Charles Darwin
• We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves. Alice Bloch
• I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. William Shakespeare
• Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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… for every day wasted can never be regained

• Every day you waste is one you can never make up. George Allen
• Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained. Stendhal
• The greatest waste in all of our earth, which cannot be recycled or reclaimed, is our waste of the time that God has given us each day. Billy Graham

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Time wasted leads to the pain of regret

• Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting. Arthur Brisbane
• Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. Mason Cooley
• Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.  Denis Waitley
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Don’t waste time bewailing your failures and mistakes

• Don’t be afraid to fail. Don’t waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It’s OK to fail. If you’re not failing, you’re not growing. Stanley Judd
• Every person living has made mistakes. Those who proceed with living never waste time licking their wounds. New ideas take them the next step of the way. Raymond Charles Barker
• What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I’ve made. Alice Bag
• Failure,  Mistakes

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Don’t waste time trying to change anything but yourself

• The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.  Samuel Johnson
• Change,  Acceptance

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Don’t waste time worrying what others think of you

• Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn’t have the time to sit around and talk about you. What’s important to me is not others’ opinions of me, but what’s important to me is my opinion of myself. C. JoyBell C.
• Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions … Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it. Tina Fey
• When your internal reference point is the ego, when you seek power and control over other people or seek approval from others, you spend energy in a wasteful way. Deepak Chopra
• Life is short, don’t waste time worrying about what people think of you Hold on to the ones that care, in the end they will be the only ones there.
• By golly, life’s too darn short to waste time trying to please every meddlesome moron who’s got an idea how I ought to be! I don’t need advice! Everyone can just stay out of my face! Bill Watterson
• A simple race! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile. Sir Walter Scott
• I do not waste my time in answering abuse; I thrive under it like a field that benefits from manure. Henry Labouchere
• Life is too short to waste time waiting for other people’s approval on how you live it. Steve Maraboli
• Worrying what other think,  Approval seeking

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Don’t waste time with explanations

• Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear. Paulo Coelho
• There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations. Benjamin Disraeli

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Don’t waste time trying to unveil all of life’s secrets

• Do not waste the precious moments of this, your present reality, seeking to unveil all of life’s secrets. Those secrets are a secret for a reason. Grant your God the benefit of the doubt. Use your NOW moment for the Highest Purpose – the creation and the expression of Who You Really Are. Decide who you are – who you want to be-and then do everything in your power to be that. Neale Donald Walsch
• Life is a mystery; don’t waste your time trying to figure it out. Dan Millman

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Don’t waste time on critics

• Don’t waste time responding to your critics. Life’s Little Instruction Book
• Criticism

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Don’t waste time on what you don’t love

• Don’t waste time trying to appreciate music. you dislike. Spend the time with music you love.   Jackson Brown Jr.
• Life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from the richness of life itself. Daniel Goleman
• Do what you love

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Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration

• Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you. Jackson Brown Jr.
• Inspiration

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Don’t waste time trying to control the uncontrollable

• Don’t waste your time trying to control the uncontrollable, or trying to solve the unsolvable, or think about what could have been. Instead, think about what you can control and solve the problem you can solve with the wisdom you have gained from both your victories and your defeats in the past. David Mahoney
• When your internal reference point is the ego, when you seek power and control over other people or seek approval from others, you spend energy in a wasteful way. Deepak Chopra
• When the tides of life turn against you and the current upsets your boat, don’t waste those tears on what might have been, just lie on your back and float.
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Don’t waste time wishing things were different

• Nobody’s problem is ideal. Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is sheer waste of time and soul-power to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different. Dr. Frank Crane

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Don’t waste time worrying

• Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced mental calisthenics as they do physical calisthenics, they would purge their brains of this foolishness. Arnold Bennett
• Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you. Oprah Winfrey
• Worry

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Don’t waste time with people you don’t like

• Avoid negative people. They drain your energy and waste your time, so hanging with them is like shooting yourself in the foot. Geoffrey James
• A surprising number of people spend a lot of time with people they don’t like. This is a complete and utter waste of time. It’s not enjoyable, it’s tiring. Richard Koch
• Don’t waste your time giving someone a second chance, when there is someone better out there looking for their first.
• Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like. Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Surround yourself with positive people

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Don’t waste time on jealousy

• Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long, and in the end, it’s only with yourself. Baz Luhrmann
• I don’t get jealous of people. Jealousy is such a waste of time because you’re jealous of them, and they go about their lives and have a wonderful time, so what’s the point? Joy Behar
• Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run. George Bernard Shaw
• Jealousy

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Don’t waste time on blame

• All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. Wayne Dyer
• Blaming

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Don’t waste time creating unnecessary complexity

• Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple. Edward de Bono
• Complexity,  Simplicity

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Here are more things that are a waste of time

• I cannot afford to waste my time making money. Louis Agassiz
• Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. Norman Cousins
• Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time. Haruki Murakami
• The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone. Mitch Albom
• Waste not time searching for happiness. Freeze frame time, still the moment, and observe the happiness that already surrounds you. Mary Rain
• We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. Tom Robbins
• Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself! Marcus Aurelius
• Doing a thing well is often a waste of time. Robert Byrne
• Criticising the other fellow because he’s in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time. Hartley William Shawcross
• It’s a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black. Yoko Ono
• Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous. Confucius
• Don’t waste time learning the tricks of the trade. Instead learn the trade.
• Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge. Francesco Guicciardini
• Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple. Edward de Bono
• If you can fix the thing that worries you, then fix it, otherwise don’t waste precious time or energy on it. Colleen Grant
• In the race of life, don’t waste your energy and time trying to compare with others. Sometimes you are ahead, sometimes behind.  The race is long and in the end it’s only with your self. Rishika Jain
• Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding. M I Finley
• Self-pity means wasted time where you should be fighting all the harder to swing your luck into the proper channel, or to force yourself over fate’s barricade. Grantland Rice
• The ‘how’ thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ‘ifs’. Norman Vincent Peale
• Playing the victim is a toxic waste of time that not only repels other people, but also robs the victim of ever knowing true happiness. Bronnie Ware
• What a waste of time to be posthumously famous. Orson Scott Card
• You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. Ruth E. Renkl

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Work out where you’re wasting time by recording it

• Grab a notebook and a pen; for an entire week, write down everything that you do and how much time you spend on it. You may be shocked to discover that you waste enormous amounts of time aimlessly surfing the web, reading blogs that don’t really help improve your quality of life, “chatting” on Twitter, and so on. Ask yourself how your life would improve if you used that time productively instead. Marelisa Fábrega

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Here are ways to prevent the waste of time

• By reducing unscheduled time and unplanned activity, you automatically reduce waste. Dan Kennedy
• Unless required for your work, never say ‘Yes’ to spending your time with someone or doing something they ask you to do unless you really want to do it. Learn to say ‘No’ to activities and people that will waste your time. Jerry Bruckner

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Don’t let people waste your time

• People who would never trespass on your property will trespass on your time, as if your time were not your property. Robert Brault
• Our time’s the most precious thing we’ve got to offer folks, and the worst thing a body can do is to take it away from us. Charles de Lint
• He who robs you of your time steals your greatest treasure. James Lendall Basford
• People who would never trespass on your property will trespass on your time, as if your time were not your property. Robert Brault
• Our time’s the most precious thing we’ve got to offer folks, and the worst thing a body can do is to take it away from us. Charles de Lint
• People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do. Thomas Sowell

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Nothing is a waste of time if you use it to learn and grow

• Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. Auguste Rodin
• Nothing is lost upon a person who is bent upon growth; nothing is wasted on one who is always preparing for his work and life by keeping eyes, mind, and heart open to nature, men, books, experience. Such a man finds ministries to his education on all sides; everything cooperates with his passion for growth. Hamilton Mabie
• Learning,  Growth

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Time spent with your children is not wasted time

• Remember that no time spent with your children is ever wasted.   Jackson Brown Jr.

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Time feeling good is not wasted time

• Do not think it wasted time to submit yourself to any influence that will bring upon you any noble feeling. John Ruskin
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Performing acts of love and kindness is never wasted time

• Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. Barbara De Angelis
• No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop
• Love,  Kindness

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Rest and leisure is not wasted time …

• Never waste any time you can spend sleeping. Frank H. Knight
• Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. J. Lubbock
• Sleep is not a waste of time. During sleep, a variety of biological processes take place that restore our bodies and minds. Nancy Foldvary-Schaefer
• The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. Bertrand Russell
• Time is the only one of life’s resources that when it’s all spent, you wish you had spent more of it foolishly. Robert Brault
• Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. Marthe Troly-Curtin
• You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. James M. Barrie
• Creativity is the residue of time wasted. Albert Einstein
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Here are more things that are never a waste of time

• I have never been in a natural place and felt that was a waste of time. I never have. And it’s a relief. If I’m walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile. Viggo Mortensen
• Time spent with a cat is never wasted. Colette
• Perhaps this is how you know you’re doing the thing you’re intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it’s a waste of time. Curtis Sittenfeld
• Do not think it wasted time to submit yourself to any influence that will bring upon you any noble feeling. John Ruskin

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We need to use our time wisely…

• People who value themselves highly allocate their time carefully. They give their time usage a lot of thought. When you love your life, you love every minute of it. You are very careful about misusing or wasting any of the precious minutes and hours of each day. Brian Tracy
• The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. Michael Altshuler
• The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything. Lee Iacocca
• Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Louisa May Alcott
• A mastery of time allows you to squeeze the maximum possible achievement in the direction of your dreams out of every hour, every day – without going crazy. Tony Robbins
• I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. Lord Chesterfield
• We will always have time enough, if we will but use it aright. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. Charles Buxton
• All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. R.R. Tolkien
• This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Today, be aware of how you are spending your 1,440 beautiful moments, and spend them wisely.
• We always have time enough, if we will but use it right.  Goethe
• The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it. Michael LeBoeuf
• I value my time. I choose to use it wisely and do not let others steal it from me. Paula Peisner
• All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. R.R. Tolkien
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… to make time count …

• Don’t count every hour in the day, make every hour in the day count.
• Time is clay. Go make something. Barbara Bach
• Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Much may be done in those little shreds and pathes of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. Charles Caleb Colton
• Know the true value of time! Snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no procrastination. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. Philip Chesterfield
• We all get 24 hours a day… It’s up to us as to what we do with those 24 hours. Sam Huff
• Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes. Robert Brault
• Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. Jackson Brown Jr   
• Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. Thomas Jefferson
• Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it, no small deduction from the life of man. Charles Caleb Colton
• Take care of the minutes, and the days will take care of themselves. Eliza Cook

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… by managing it effectively

• All time management begins with planning. Tom Greening
• Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else. Peter F. Drucker
• Time is the scarcest resource; and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed. Peter F. Drucker
• The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it. Michael Leboeuf

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It is our use of time that determines our success or failure

• In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure. Malcolm X
• It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. Henry Ford
• Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything. Benjamin Franklin
• Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time. Denis Waitley
• Success,  Failure

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We need to invest our time, not just spend it   

• The key is in not spending time, but in investing it. Stephen Covey
• There’s a huge difference between spending time and investing it. The word “spending” means that you’re using something up or exhausting it. When you spend time, you’re not really looking to get anything back. When you invest in something you expend resources, but you do so with an expectation of getting a good return on your investment (ROI). Investing your time means that you engage in activities which are calculated to bring you meaningful rewards.  Marelisa Fábrega
• The ultimate measure of our lives is . . . how much energy we invest in the time that we have. Tony Schwartz
• Do you spend time or invest time?   Examples of time invested: developing new skills, doing what you love, creating a legacy, exercise, working towards goals, personal development, finding solutions, nurturing happy, loving relationships, decluttering and organising, planning and deciding, creativity, preparation, true recreation, increasing your income potential.
• Each of us has a bank account of time, into which a deposit is made and withdrawals are taken. No matter how depleted that account was at the end of yesterday, today it is chock- full of moments to cherish, memories to make, and minute after minute to spend wisely or not. Michael Rawls
• Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. Earl Nightingale
• Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects. Horace Mann

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Managing time is really about managing ourselves

• Time management” is really a misnomer – the challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves. Stephen Covey
• Highly effective people do not really manage time—they manage themselves. Stephen Covey
• Managing your time really means managing yourself. If your time is out of control, it means you are out of control.  Marrill Douglass
• Time management is really life management, personal management, management of yourself. Brian Tracy
• Stop managing your time. Start managing your focus. Robin Sharma
• Time management is really life management, personal management, management of yourself. People who value themselves highly allocate their time carefully. They give their time usage a lot of thought. When you love your life, you love every minute of it. You are very careful about misusing or wasting any of the precious minutes and hours of each day. Brian Tracy
• Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days. Zig Ziglar
• Time management’ is a foolish idea. You don’t manage time. Have you ever mismanaged five minutes and come up with six? Or four-and-a-half? Time just is. Our actions are what we manage, during time. David Allen

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Instead of finding time, make it

• You will never “find” time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. Charles Bruxton
• Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to. Lao Tzu

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Make time for what is important

• You can always make time to do the thing you want to do, if you want it enough.  Al Koran
• Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important. Stephen Covey
• Devote 100% of your time to the critical issue. Robert Townsend
• There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing. Brian Tracy
• We can no more afford to spend major time on minor things than we can to spend minor time on major things.  Jim Rohn
• The time spent on any matter is usually inversely proportional to its importance. C. Northcote Parkinson
• A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first. Robert J. McKain
• As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.  Stephen Covey
• If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got. Lee Iacocca
• Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you’ll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, ‘Is this necessary?’  Marcus Aurelius
• What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time?  Stephen Covey
• The key isn’t to do things for the sake of doing them. It’s to spend our time on the activities that truly matter to us. Margarita Tartakovsky M.S.
• Focus,  Dump what is unimportant

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Make time for thinking

• The more you think, the more time you have. Henry Ford
• The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it. Sydney J. Harris
• The more you think, the more time you have. Henry Ford
• Time given to thought is the greatest time saver of all. Norman Cousins
• Make time for thinking

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Make time for renewal

• Although I have a regular work schedule, I take time to go for long walks on the beach so that I can listen to what is going on inside my head. Albert Einstein
• Rest and renewal

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Make time for what you love

• It’s worth making time to find the things that really stir your soul. That’s what makes you really feel alive. You have to say ‘no’ to other things you’re used to, and do it with all your heart. Roy T. Bennett
• You can always make time to do the thing you want to do, if you want it enough.  Al Koran
• Do what you love

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Make time for being

• Sometimes I think and other times I am. Paul Valéry
• Being

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Make time for the ones you love

• You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life. Matthew Quick
• Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family. Mother Teresa
• No man on his death bed ever looked up into the eyes of his family and friends and said, ‘I wish I’d spent more time at the office.’ John Piper
• We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly. Mark Twain
• The best thing to spend on your children is your time. Louise Hart
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Make time for caring and kindness

• Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. Henri Frederic Amiel
• There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. Coco Chanel
• Caring, Kindness

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Make time for reflection and contemplation

• We schedule events back to back and overlapping, with no time to rest or reflect. Jack Zavada
• Try finding twenty minutes today to pay attention to a spiritual need. I’ll make time for prayer and peaceful contemplation today, to help me become quiet and calm. Amy E. Dean
• Reflection,  Contemplation

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Make time for exercise

• It’s hard to make time for exercise when you have a jam-packed schedule, but experts say that it may ultimately help you get more done by boosting your energy level and ability to concentrate. Jen Uscher
• Exercise

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Make time for creating

• Time is clay. Go make something. Barbara Bach
• Creativity

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Make time for yourself

• Often we make time for our family or other loved ones, but we neglect ourselves. Schedule time for yourself, doing something you love doing by yourself. For me, that’s reading and running, but others might like crafts or meditation or yoga or going on hikes or surfing or whatever. Leo Babauta
• Always spend some dedicated time with yourself each day. Practice meditation or yoga to feel connected and relaxed. Nigel Coates

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Make time for play

• So while you may think you don’t have time to play, this is the best thing you could possible be doing. Jill Murphy Long
• Play

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We rush through life, forever conscious of time …

• God made time, but man-made haste. Irish Proverb
• The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short. Rajneesh
• Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits’-end by urgent work, business to attend do or some service to render. George Sand
• The less time I have to work with, the more things I get done. Andy Rooney
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… always fearful we’ll run out of time…

• Hurry is a manifestation of fear; he who fears not has plenty of time. Wallace D. Wattles
• The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is, rather, born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life.  Eric Hoffer
• I’m afraid of time… I mean, I’m afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I’m afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can’t fix them without time. I’m afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies. Ann Brashares
• I’m afraid of time… I mean, I’m afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I’m afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can’t fix them without time. I’m afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies. Ann Brashares

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… often wasting time through undue haste…

• One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time. G.K. Chesterton
• I have no time to be in a hurry. Henry David Thoreau
• There’s no advantage to hurrying through life. Shikamaru Nara
• When is the perfect time? A: Who can say, but probably somewhere between haste and delay – and it’s usually most wise to start today. Rasheed Ogunlaru

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We rush to save time, then end up killing the time we save

• Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. Will Rogers
• Modern man thinks he loses something–time–when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains–except kill it. Erich Fromm

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We cram the hour with constant busyness …

• Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork… They run their unswerving course from object to object, directed by some mysterious inner needle that points all the time to what they must do next. You can only marvel at such misuse of time. Elizabeth Bowen
• Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues. Sogyal Rinpoche
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… for cramming time is unduly respected in the frenetic time we live in

• If you want work well done, select a busy man — the other kind has no time. Elbert Hubbard
• Never say that you have no time. On the whole it is those who are busiest who can make time for yet more, and those who love more leisure time who refused to do something when asked. What we lack is not time, but heart. Henri Boulard
• Time is a treasure to the industrious, a burden to the indolent. Elia Cook
• The less time I have to work with, the more things I get done. Andy Rooney

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Free up your time by dumping what’s not important

• One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not be done at all. Brian Tracy
• I’m so busy doing what I must do that I don’t have time for what I ought to do… and I never get a chance to do what I want to do! Son, that’s universal. The way to keep that recipe from killing you is occasionally to do what you want to do anyhow. Robert A. Heinlein
• Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. Og Mandino
• We can no more afford to spend major time on minor things than we can to spend minor time on major things.  Jim Rohn
• Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you’ll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, ‘Is this necessary?’  Marcus Aurelius
• To detonate your time revolution, slow down. Stop worrying. Do fewer things. Chuck your to do list, make a not to do list. Act less, think more. Reflect on what really matters to you. Stop doing anything that isn’t valuable, that doesn’t make you happy. Savor life. Swim against the tide of acceleration. Be unconventional, even eccentric. Purge your dairy. Dump your cell phone. Stop going to meetings or events that bore you. Reclaim your time for yourself and people who care about you. Richard Koch
• The time spent on any matter is usually inversely proportional to its importance. C. Northcote Parkinson
• Eliminate what is not important

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Become friends with time by creating a sense of its abundance

• Like time starvation, time abundance is a mind-set. Know that there is a reason for every season. Time abundance states you have more than enough time to get everything done that serves your ultimate purpose.  Christine Louise Hohlbaum
• An unhurried sense of time is in itself a sort of wealth. Bonnie Friedman
• I don’t really want more time; I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real and time to laugh long, time to give You glory and rest deep and sing joy and just enough time in a day not to feel hounded, pressed, driven, or wild to get it all done-yesterday. Ann Voskamp
• The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Rabindranath Tagore
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Become friends with time by slowing down…

• Time is like that: cussed when we try to speed up, a dear friend when we slow down. Richard Koch
• Time, the cradle of hope…. Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends. Charles Caleb Colton
• Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste. Benjamin Franklin
• Slow down and take the time to really see. Take a moment to see what is going on around you right now, right where you are.  You may be missing something wonderful.   Michael Thomas
• If you keep too busy to look at time you will not know that it is passing. Lewis F. Korns
• There is more to life than simply increasing its speed. Mahatma Gandhi
• Take time for deliberation. Haste spoils everything. Publius Papanius Statius
• Take time for all things. Benjamin Franklin
• Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. Rabindranath Tagore
• The sense of deep time brings a deep peace with it, a detachment from the timescale, the urgencies, of daily life… a profound sense of being at home, a sort of companionship with the earth. Oliver Sacks
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…by spending time in nature

• The sense of deep time brings a deep peace with it, a detachment from the timescale, the urgencies, of daily life. Seeing these volcanic islands and coral atolls, and wandering, above all, through this cycad forest on Rota, has given me an intimate feeling of the antiquity of the earth, and the slow, continuous processes by which different forms of life evolve and come into being. Standing here in the jungle, I feel part of a larger, calmer identity; I feel a profound sense of being at home, a sort of companionship with the earth. Oliver Sacks
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Become friends with time by doing one thing at a time

• The essence of Zen. One thing at a time and take your time.
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Become friends with time by cultivating patience

• All in good time.  Horace
• Patience and time do more than strength or passion. Jean de LaFontaine
• The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. Leo Tolstoy
• Time, that aged nurse, Rocked me to patience. John Keats
• Patience is being friends with Time. Vanna Bonta
• Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather, it is “timing”; it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.  Fulton J. Sheen
• Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury. Jean De La Fontaine
• Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer that there must be time.  Let the tree first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.  Epictetus
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Become friends with time by becoming friendly with the present moment

• If you pay attention at every moment, you form a new relationship to time. In some magical way, by slowing down, you become more efficient, productive, and energetic, focusing without distraction directly on the task in front of you. Not only do you become immersed in the moment, you become that moment. Michael Ray
• The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of the ego. The ego can never be in alignment with the present moment, which is to say, aligned with life, since its very nature compels it to ignore, resist, or devalue the Now. Eckhart Tolle
• Pay complete attention to the present moment and become friendly with it . Eckhart Tolle
• the present moment becomes your friend, and you begin to experience life as supportive, rather than hostile. This is the miracle of transformation. Eckhart Tolle

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Become friends with time by working with it, not against it …

• Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side. The Talmud
• If thou takest time into thy affairs, it will allay and arrange all things. Apollodorus
• One must work with time and not against it. Ursula K. Le Guin
• ‘Time’ for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water. Roman Payne
• Time cannot be spurred on like a horse. Kobo Abe
• They that drive away time spur a free horse. John Mason

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… by allowing time to unfold in its own way

• Man goes nowhere. Everything comes to man, like tomorrow. Antonio Porchia
• I release the need to push myself to be doing more, and allow the actions to flow through me in their own perfect time. The periods of inaction are equally important as the periods of action. Amanda Harvey
• Slow down you’re doing fine. You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.  Billy Joel
• Go with the flow,  Non-resistance

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Become friends with time by forgiving the past

• The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that’s why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they’ve really done is they’ve shifted their relationship with time. Caroline Myss
• The past,  Forgiveness,  Regret

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There was a time when time did not exist at all

• There was a time when time did not yet exist. Emil Cioran
• You can’t get to a time before the big bang, because there was no time before the big bang. Stephen Hawking
• Time, you’ll be pleased to know–and since one must start somewhere–was created in creation. The question What was there before creation? is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation. Glen Duncan
• “What was there before the Big Bang?” Physicists reply, with Gertrude Stein, “There’s no ‘there’ there. There’s no ‘then’ then.” Space and time, matter and energy, sprung into existence at the moment of creation; “before” that moment the concepts do not apply. Eknath Easwaran

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Get in touch with the timeless within you …

• When you sink below the surface of the manifest world and awaken to the timeless depth of that empty ground, you find yourself contemplating consciousness in its primordial state, free from all content, before it entered the stream of time. In this dimension, nothing has ever happened. The universe has not yet emerged; you have not been born; even time itself has not yet begun.   Andrew Cohen
• The ways of the mind are ancient, but you are timeless. Mooji

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… by connecting with the timeless awareness that you are …

• The timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream. Kahlil Gibran
• Put your awareness to work, not your mind. The mind is not the right instrument for this task. The timeless can be reached only by the timeless. Your body and your mind are born subject to time; only awareness is timeless, even in the now. Nisargadatta Maharaj
• In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love. Eckhart Tolle
• Only the human heart can live in present moment awareness. The human mind cannot, because its essential nature is to ponder the past and plan the future. This is why all wise beings encourage us to go beyond the mind into the timeless, boundless transcendence of heart-centered awareness. David Simon
• Awareness,  Who is the experiencer of all you experience?

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… by becoming deeply still …

• Becoming conscious of stillness whenever we encounter it in our lives will connect us with the formless and timeless dimension within ourselves, that which is beyond thought, beyond ego. Eckhart Tolle
• Through meditation one discovers one’s own light. That light you can call your soul, yourself, your God—whatsoever word you choose—or you can remain just silent because it has no name. It is a nameless experience, tremendously beautiful, ecstatic, utterly silent, but it gives you the taste of eternity, of timelessness, of something beyond death. Rajneesh
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… by becoming deeply present within the timeless Now

• Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future, so it perceives the timeless Now as threatening. Time and mind are in fact inseparable. Eckhart Tolle
• The most precious thing in life is the present moment, the timeless ‘now’; for this timeless ‘now’ is all there is in life. For anything to be precious in life, it has to exist in life, and the only thing that exists in life is this timeless moment – the ‘now.’ Dr. Vijai Shankar
• As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless. Rodney Yee
• Eternity is not ever-lasting time but the real, unfading, indestructible, and timeless Present, for, as Schroedinger said, the present is the only thing that has no end. Ken Wilber
• Everything is just now. Your existence is just now. Just timeless Now. All the rest is just a dream due to conditioning and memory. Mooji
• As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless. Rodney Yee
• The river is now. This moment. This breath between us. The space between your heartbeats. The moment before you blink. The instant a thought flashes through your mind. It is everything that is around us. Life. Energy. Flowing, endlessly flowing, carrying you from then…to now…to tomorrow. Listen: you can hear the music of it. Of the passage of time. Lisa Mangum
• Now is a priceless gift

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Carry the timeless within you even in the midst of doing

• When doing becomes infused with the timeless quality of Being, that is success. Unless Being flows into doing, unless you are present, you lose yourself in whatever you do. Eckhart Tolle

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Enjoy carefree timelessness with the ones you love

• Carefree timelessness is time together without an agenda. All relationships thrive under the condition of carefree timelessness. Carefree timelessness is carefree. It has nothing to achieve other than the enjoyment of each other’s company… The lack of carefree timelessness is the reason the rest of us fall out of love so easily. Carefree timelessness causes us to fall in love with life and others. Matthew Kelly
• Standing there absorbing the beauty of this place, I stepped out of time. In this timeless moment, I saw and felt the unity of all things. Judith Rich

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Eternity is timeless

• Eternity is a fascinating concept, one that doesn’t indicate a perpetual existence in time without end. Eternity doesn’t mean a limitless temporal sequence. Rather, it resides outside of time altogether. Robert Lanza
• Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end. Woody Allen
• Eternity is just another name for our true nature of Awareness. Rupert Spira
• Eternity is not ever-lasting time but the real, unfading, indestructible, and timeless Present, for, as Schroedinger said, the present is the only thing that has no end. Ken Wilber
• Eternity, not as a static “now,” nor as a sequence of “nows” rolling off into the infinite, but as the “now” that bends back into itself. Thinking the most difficult thought of philosophy means thinking being as time. Martin Heidegger
• For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end. Erwin Schrodinger
• That which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time. Rabindranath Tagore
• The present is the only thing that has no end. Erwin Schrodinger
• The recognition that took place was that now was eternal. The importance of the moment itself somehow defeated death by being outside time. Steve Taylor
• The Self doesn’t live forever in time, it lives in the timeless present prior to time, prior to history, change, succession. The Self is present as Pure Presence, not as everlasting duration, a rather horrible notion. Ken Wilber
• Ultimately, all moments are really one, therefore now is an eternity. David Bohm
• We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second. Rabindranath Tagore

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Now, the space in which our experience arises, exists outside time

• Now is not a succession of moments. Now exists outside time. Rupert Spira
• Now is not a time. Here is not a place. They both exist in timeless, dimensionless awareness. Anthony Lambert
• Now is not a moment in time. Experience arises in timeless awareness. Rupert Spira
• Plato was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience. Erwin Schrodinger
• The ‘now’ is not a moment moving through time. It has no duration. There is no time through which we move. Rupert Spira

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Time is an ocean on which we float

• Time travels like a ship in the wide ocean, which hath no bounding shore to mark its progress. Joanna Baillie
• Time is a great ocean, which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains. We cannot weep over everything. Every man has his own sorrows, every century its own pity, and this is enough. Alphonse de Lamartine
• Time is a lake, getting deeper year by year, drop by drop. Surface tension, the electric presence of our staccato acts, keeps us scuttling like water bugs on its surface, unmindful of the depths we traverse. We’re safe, afloat in the now, until we stop moving and begin to sink into the past. Only then do we realize how important all those yesterdays were, how they hold each present moment to the sun; and how many people we leave behind, stricken in time like ambered insects. Michael Marshall
• Time is not a thing that passes … it’s a sea on which you float. Margaret Atwood
• There is a desert of time as well as of land. Edward Counsel
• The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not. Thomas Carlyle
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Time is a river

• 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. Marcus Aurelius
• Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire. Jorge Luis Borges
• The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not. Thomas Carlyle
• Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. Henry David Thoreau
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Time is an abyss in which moments are sunk

• The sands of time are quicksands … so much can sink into them without a trace. Margaret Atwood
• One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past. James Long
• I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner)
• Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time. Jean De La Bruyere

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Time is a ghost

• Time has ghosts. That’s what time is: the ghost of every instant passed, haunting the potential of every moment to come. Tiim Lebbon
• The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now. Bill Cosby

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Some advocate being on time …

• I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me. Lord Nelson
• I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time. Lord Nelson
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… for punctuality is respecting the time of another

• Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you. Karen Joy Fowler
• If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own. Richard Cecil
• Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person’s money as his time. Horace Mann
• Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late.  William Shakespeare
• Just being alive should make you late for everything. In case you’ve never noticed, the dead are always on time. Arlene Ang
• I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time. Marilyn Monroe
• If I promise you I’ll show up fifteen minutes late, I’ll always arrive on time. Jarod Kintz
• Others do not advocate being on time
• Punctuality is the thief of time. Oscar Wilde
• Among life’s regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything. Robert Brault
• Punctuality: The art of wasting nobody’s time but your own.
• If you’re there before it’s over, you’re on time. James J. Walker
• Punctuality: The art of arriving for an appointment just in time to be indignant at the tardiness of the other party.
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Time is but a parenthesis of eternity

• Every pulsation in earthly life is but the ticking of eternity’s clock. James Lendall Basford
• Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions. James Joyce
• Eternity is in love with the productions of time. William Blake
• Time is the chrysalis of eternity. Richter
• If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been. John Donne
• Time is but the ante-chamber to eternity. Susannah Moodie
• Time … thou ceaseless lackey to eternity. William Shakespeare
• Eternity, not as a static “now,” nor as a sequence of “nows” rolling off into the infinite, but as the “now” that bends back into itself. Thinking the most difficult thought of philosophy means thinking being as time. Martin Heidegger
• The end of time is the birthday of Eternity. Edward Counsel
• Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time. Thomas Wolfe

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There is a time for everything

• To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. Bible, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
• I sincerely believe that there is a time in life for drifting. There is a time for sitting back and getting in touch with yourself.  Some of our most interesting illuminations and ideas will come when we take time to reflect, time to kick back and cruise awhile.  Rudolfo Anaya
• Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over. Octavia Butler
• Separate your day: a time for creating, and a time for consuming and communicating. And never the twain shall meet. Leo Babauta
• There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go. Tennessee Williams
• At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time. Ovid
• There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. Coco Chanel
• Life is a natural cycle of summer, autumn, winter, spring

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The time is always right to do what is right

• The time is always right to do what is right. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. Nelson Mandela
• Right action,  Morality and ethics

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The time will never be just right so start anyway

• 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 HillPeople who wait for the “perfect” time to act never take action. Mike Mahler
• You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating. Barbara Sher
• If you wait for that ‘perfect moment’ you’re not going to be very productive. Scott Belsky
• Making a start

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Freezing time is the art of photography

• All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt. Susan Sonrag
• Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. Dorothea Lange
• A photograph is the pause button on life. Ty Holland
• Photography is the art of frozen time… the ability to store emotion and feelings within a frame. Meshack Otieno
• Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption. Andre Bazin
• All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify. Susan Sonrag
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• A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. John B. Priestly
• A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.
• Among life’s regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything. Robert Brault
• And what if you were told: one more hour? Elias Canetti
• As the old saying goes, a man with one watch always knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never sure. Daniel J. Levitin
• Aside from velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe. You can’t see it or touch it, yet a plumber can charge you upwards of seventy-five dollars per hour for it, without necessarily fixing anything. Dave Barry
• Computer: An electronic time-saving device that is commonly used for time-wasting activities. Warwick Annear
• Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. Ambrose Bierce
• Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Déjà vu. Robert Brault
• For disappearing acts, it’s hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. Doug Larson
• Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper our friends are true and our happiness is assured.  Ambrose Bierce
• Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. Will Rogers
• How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you’re on. Zall’s Second Law
• I am definitely going to take a course on time management… just as soon as I can work it into my schedule. Louis E. Boone
• I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.   Douglas Adams
• I said I did not have time, but to what did I give the time, and was it a fair exchange? Muriel Strode Lieberman (1875–1964)
• I try to take one day at a time but sometimes several days attack me at once. Ashleigh Brilliant
• I want to go to sleep in my time machine and wake up eight hours in the future. Jarod Kintz
• I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness. Bill Watterson
• If you’ve got time to kill, work it to death.
• Let not the sands of time get in your lunch. Tony Hendra
• Never KILL time – it’s much too precious!
• Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right — it holds my golden time! Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Questions
• Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I’ll waste no time reading it. Moses Hadas
• Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once. There is more than a little truth in that. Bernard Haisch
• The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. Michael Altshuler
• The lesson of Good Friday is to never lose hope — or at least give it 48 hours. Robert Brault
• The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time. Marilyn Monroe
• There are whole years for which I hope I’ll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi. Mignon McLaughlin
• There is no present like time.
• Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. An odd moment in the afternoon. Today it is intolerable. Jean-Paul Sartre
• Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. Anthony G. Oettinger
• Time is a figure eight, at its centre the city of Déjà vu. Robert Brault
• Time is amazing… it has only one thing to say to anyone… “When?” Doug Firebaugh
• Time is like a movie. All people see it in its full length. Some people fast forward or rewind to their favorite times and skip the bad. Others are stuck watching only bad acting. Some people direct and all want to be stars but in the end everyone gets cut from the script.
• Time moves everyone forward, but it’s always forgetting to bring me. Amanda Stern
• Time is nature’s way of keeping everything from happening at once. Woody Allen
• Time is that stuff between paydays. Leo Ochs
• Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. John Archibald Wheeler
• Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities. Daniel J. Boorstin
• Time may be a great healer but’s it’s a lousy beautician.
• Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.
• Time wastes our bodies and our wits, but we waste time, so we are quits.
• Time wounds all heels. Groucho Marx
• Time: That which man is always trying to kill but which ends in killing him. Herbert Spencer
• Time’s fun when you’re having flies.  Kermit the Frog
• To make time fly, throw your watch out the window.
• Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous? Bill Watterson
• Why waste your time looking up your family tree? Just go into politics, and your opponents will do it for you. Mark Twain