time

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. … The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.

—Seneca

It’s not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.

—Seneca

People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.

—Seneca

Every time you judge yourself you break your own heart.

– Swami Kripalvauanda

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

– J.R.R. Tolkien

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

—Georg Hegel

Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you do, and you will presently come to love him. – C.S. Lewis

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

—Ernest Hemingway

The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting.

—Vincent Van Gogh

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

Stranger: There is a time when God guides the world in its course; and there is a time, on completing a cycle, when he lets go.

—Plato

Stranger: There is a time when God guides the world in its course; and there is a time, on completing a cycle, when he lets go (Statesman)

—Plato

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have laboured hard for.

—Socrates

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

—Socrates

Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

—Immanuel Kant

Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.

—Immanuel Kant

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

—Immanuel Kant

Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.

—Immanuel Kant

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

—Aristotle

Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

—Aristotle

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

—Oscar Wilde

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

—Blaise Pascal

‘Tis not a vain thing to praise him. We cannot spend time better for our souls. It doth good to the heart in that manner to be lifted up unto God.

—Jonathan Edwards

It is a petty view of our Father’s love and wisdom which demands or expects an answer according to our desires, apart from His wisdom. We see hardly one inch of the narrow lane of time. To our God eternity lies open as a meadow.

—Amy Carmichael

He cannot, at one and the same time, follow his own will, and follow the will of God: He must choose the one or the other; denying God’s will, to follow his own; or denying himself, to follow the will of God.

—John Wesley

I have wasted my time alas! O may I make a better use of it and from purer motives.

—William Wilberforce