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Learn to use time, think of it as a friend, not an enemy. Don’t waste it in going after things you don’t want.
MKMichael Kordaborn 1933Power: How To Get It, How To Use It (1976)
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers1879–1935Daily Telegram #1172, Will Rogers Sees No Value In All The Time We Save (28 April 1930)
It’s only when you’re forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
Erica Jongborn 1942Fear of Flying (1973)
Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, O Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is in due time for thee.
Marcus Aurelius121–180Meditations, Book IV, 23
- Nature
If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
Jim Carreyborn 1962Carrey: ‘Life Is Too Beautiful’: Star Talks About Bouts With Depression And His Spirituality 60 Minutes (21 November 2004)
As you get older, all those dumb clichés, they’re all true. You only have a certain amount of time left, and you should only spend it doing the things that you want to do.
Rob Reiner1947–2025“Rob Reiner on his favorite films, and why he changed the ending of ‘When Harry Met Sally…’”, A.V. Club (September 3, 2016).
- Age
All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822Ozymandias (1818)In context
- Power
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche, Frankfurt (25 June 1963)
- Change
Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), Ch. 43
To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future.
Emma Goldman1869–1940My Further Disillusionment in Russia (1924), Afterword
I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Life Without Principle (1863), pp. 486–7
- Work
One luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.
Robert Frost1874–1963Acquainted with the Night, West-Running Brook (1928)In context
I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future and in some way involve the stars.
Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986“The Garden of Forking Paths”, Ficciones (1944)
I have existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931“Song of Man”, A Tear and a Smile (1914); tr. Juan Cole in The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul (1994)
- Life & Death