I can’t change the fact that my paintings don’t sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.
—Vincent Van Gogh
Such should be the outward biography of a man in time, a putting off of dead circumstance day by day, as he renews his raiment day by day.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Christ died, but he is not dead now. He is risen; he has gone up into his glory; he sits upon the throne of God; but, at the same time, by a very real spiritual presence he is with all his people, as he said to his disciples[…]”
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
—Mark Twain
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
—Socrates
Only time can heal what reason cannot.
—Seneca
It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.
—Vincent Van Gogh
I suspect I have been allotting habitually too little time to religious exercises, as private devotion, religious meditation, Scripture reading, etc. Hence I am lean, and cold, and hard.
—William Wilberforce
When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
—Seneca
That when you’re buying books, you’re optimistically thinking you’re buying the time to read them.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven’s name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Ordinary people merely think how they shall ‘spend’ their time; a man of talent tries to ‘use’ it.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.
—Søren Kierkegaard
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
Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast.. Of course, slowness is bad. Really skilful people never get out of time, and are always deliberate, and never appear busy.
—Miyamoto Musashi
Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only keep a good watch over their own lifetimes, but they annex every age to theirs.
—Seneca
Speak every time, my dear brother, as if it was your last; weep out, if possible, every argument, and as it were compel them to cry, Behold how he loveth us.
—George Whitefield
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
—Aristotle
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
—Thomas Edison
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
—Charles Darwin
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
—Seneca
There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.
—Charles Dickens
Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man is a mystery.
It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time.
I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).
—Mark Twain
We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.
—Carl Jung
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