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Time Quotes Worth Reading Twice

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

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. – Ernest Hemingway

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

As time it feels normal to you. But there is no normal. There’s only change, and resistance to it, and then more change. – Meryl Streep

Being in the right place at the right time isn’t something you can force. It just happens when you keep busy. Effortlessly. – Mike Dooley

Being on time when the rest of the world is behind gives the impression of being ahead. – Jean-Luc Godard

Depressed? You’re living in the past. Anxious? You’re living in the future. At peace? You’re living now, in the present. – Lao Tzu

Do not wait. The time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. – Napoleon Hill

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. – Coco Chanel

Don’t waste your time with explanations. People only hear what they want to hear. – Paulo Coelho

Every man lives only this present time, which is an indivisible point, and all the rest of his life is either past or uncertain. – Marcus Aurelius

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past. – Anne Lamott

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity. – Coco Chanel

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific. – Lily Tomlin

I believe that there are more urgent and honorable occupations than that incomparable waste of time we call suffering. – Colette

I felt adrift in a sea of randomness, desperate and absurd, devoid of purpose, lost. And then I got paid and I purchased some unnecessary merchandise and now I feel fine. – Scott Adams

I have now made a habit of being prepared in all affairs of life for the worst. As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me but is indeed very soothing and consoling, and I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. I never lie down at night without reflecting that, young as I am, I may not live to see another day. Yet not one of all my acquaintances could say that in my company I am morose or disgruntled. For this blessing I daily thank my creator. – Johann Amadeus Mozart

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.  – Thomas Jefferson 

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. – Albert Einstein

I was unsuccessful in business for many years. Now I realize it was mostly the result of being young, stupid, stubborn, and naive. At the time, I thought that I was just unlucky. Then one day I got pretty good at stuff. Hurray! People think that things get easy once one becomes successful. For many, it’s ‘careful what you wish for’. If you’re up for it, it’s amazing, if not, every day is a burden. That’s why you gotta follow your passion. Love what you do and your life is a blessing. – Hugh Macleod

I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you need right up to the day you die. – William Wiley

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time. – Zig Ziglar

If you are depressed you are living in the past, if you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present. – Lao Tzu

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. Now put the foundations under them. –  Henry David Thoreau

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa

If you liberate yourself from the measurement of time, you can’t continue to take structure completely seriously. – John Cage

It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth, and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were there only one we had. – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

It takes a very long time to become young. – Pablo Picasso

Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life’s books each day. The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time. – Seneca

Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn’t necessarily mean harmony and peace and quiet, but it does mean huge involvement in everybody else’s affairs. – Marshall McLuhan

Love is difficult to conjugate, its past is not simple, its present is only indicative, and its future is always conditional. – Jean Cocteau

Managing energy, not time, is the key to high performance and personal renewal, to prevent burnout and improve productivity. – Tony Schwartz

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

Most people can stay excited for a period of time. A winner stays excited as long as it takes to get the job done. – Rich Thawley

Never try to sell a meteor to a dinosaur. It wastes your time and annoys the dinosaur. – Hugh Macleod

One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. – Paulo Coelho

One of the coolest things about time and space, besides cattails, polka dots, and a good beat, is that everything is free. – Mike Dooley

One of the schools of Tilon has reached the point of denying time. It reasons that the present is undefined, that the future has no other reality than as present hope, that the past is no more than the present memory. Another school declares that the whole of time has already happened and that our life is a vague memory or dim reflection, doubtless false and fragmented, of an irrevocable process. – Jorge Luis Borges

One’s past is either made useful or else mutates and becomes cancerous. – Dave Eggers

Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present. – Albert Camus

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Looking at its sad appearance who would think that those stiff branches, those jagged twigs would turn green again and blossom and bear fruit next spring. But we hope they will. We know they will. – Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Sometimes the best way to remain sane is to love like crazy. – Mike Dooley

Sometimes the easiest way to solve a problem is to stop participating in the problem. – Albert Einstein

Sometimes the most ordinary things can be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people. – Elizabeth Green

Sometimes the only available transportation is a leap of faith. – Margaret Shepard

Sometimes the questions are complicated, and the answers are simple. – Theodor ‘Dr. Seuss‘ Geisel

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. – Socrates

‎Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. The person who dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool. – Plato

The absolute tranquility is the present moment. Though it is at this moment, there is no limit to this moment, and therein is eternal delight. – Hui-Neng

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. – Friedrich Nietzsche

The best thing about the future is that is comes only one day at a time. – Abraham Lincoln

The illiterate of the future are not those who can’t read or write but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. – Alvin Toffler

The one charm of the past is that it is past. – Oscar Wilde

The only real way to influence your future is by what you do in the present. – Tony Robbins

The only thing we know for sure about the future is that it will be different. – Peter Drucker

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. – Buddha

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time. – James Taylor

The shortcut that’s sure to work, every time: Take the long way. – Seth Godin

The time is out of joint. O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right! – Shakespeare

The trouble is, you think you have time. – Buddha

There comes a time when silence is betrayal. – Martin Luther King, Jr

There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don’t like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn’t that a little like saving up sex for your old age? – Warren Buffet

There is nothing more surprising than right now. Right now is where you always are anyway. – James Broughton

There’s nothing you can do to not die on time. – Byron Katie

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us. – Max Frisch

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. – Anthony G. Oettinger

Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters. – Margaret Peters

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. – Hector Berlioz

Time is not a road. It is a room. – John Fowles

Time is the only critic without ambition. – John Steinbeck

Time. All things consume it, love alone makes use of it. – Paul Claudel

To be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future. – André Gide

To say “the camera cannot lie” is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name. – Marshall McLuhan

Waste no more time arguing about what a good person should be. Be one. – Marcus Aurelius

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. – R. Buckminster Fuller

We are the echo of the future. – W.S. Merwin

We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living fully in the present. – Marianne Williamson

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world. Except for children – who don’t know enough not to ask the important questions – few of us spend much time wondering why nature is the way it is. – Carl Sagan

We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future. – Marshall McLuhan

We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time. – T.S. Eliot

We must work at the future as weavers work at high-warp tapestry, without seeing it. – Anatole France

What is the cause, though, of the growth of an acorn? The oak that is to come! What is to happen in the future is then the cause of what is occurring now; and, at the same time, what occurred in the past is also the cause of what is happening now. In addition, a great number of things round about, on every side, are causing what is happening now. Everything, all the time, is causing everything else. – Joseph Campbell

What problem do you actually have in this moment? Not in an hour’s time or tomorrow morning. What problem do you have now? – Eckhart Tolle

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs. – Maxwell Maltz

Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself. – Hermann Hesse

You become what you think about most of the time. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can’t make people listen. They have to come around in their own time, wondering what happened, and why the world blew up under them. – Ray Bradbury

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity. – Henry David Thoreau

You can’t move forward until you let go of the past. You must never look back. – Debra Jones

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