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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walden (1854)In context
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
I love a broad margin to my life.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walden (1854), SoundsIn context
- Life & Death
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Four, Chapter VIII
Whereas before you dwelt in time and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to past and future.
Eckhart Tolleborn 1948The Power of Now (1997)
To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment.
Eckhart Tolleborn 1948The Power of Now (1997)
- Freedom
Ask yourself what “problem” you have right now, not next year, tomorrow, or five minutes from now. What is wrong with this moment?
Eckhart Tolleborn 1948The Power of Now (1997)
The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be; otherwise, you will be forced to relive the past again and again.
Eckhart Tolleborn 1948Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth (2008)
The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869), Bk. X, ch. 16
Huck was always willing to take a hand in any enterprise that offered entertainment and required no capital, for he had a troublesome superabundance of that sort of time which is not money.
Mark Twain1835–1910The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Chapter XXVIn context
- Comedy
- Money
There is time for everything.
?UnattributedOften credited to Thomas Edison
Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
John Updike1932–2009A Month of Sundays (1975)
Truth was the only daughter of Time.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
- Truth & Lies
The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Time bears away all things, even our minds.
Virgil70–19 BCEclogues (37 BC), Book IX, line 51