Time Quotes - Page 55

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

When I live lucidly I see that I am both mortal and immortal. The person I appear to be in time had a beginning and will come to an end. But the deep self isn't in time, just like a dreamer isn't in a dream.

Sometimes you get the sense that the Creator is getting to that point of "Yeah, we might have to reboot."

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

Sometimes it's better not to look back.

Sometimes it's what you don't say that counts.

I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time' is to say 'I don't want to.'

The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination.

Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.

Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

We only get to play this game one time, one life.

Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the one you are with; you are not liking the person you have become.

In nightlife you can become a star, while in the daytime you can just be a nobody.

The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor's edge of Now - to be so utterly, so completely present that no problem, no suffering, nothing that is not who you are in your essence, can survive in you. In the Now, in the absence of time, all your problems dissolve. Suffering needs time; it cannot survive in the Now.

Sometimes we are too polite with our suffering and allow it to dominate our life.

Time is the metre, memory the only plot.

Now is our time to change the world

Americans are given the sole option of electing their jailer for four years and sometimes do him the honour of re-electing him.

Time is money'... Waste it now. Pay for it later!

Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.