Time Quotes - Page 132

Love is what sometimes holds us and binds us when we’re not so happy.

Twelve to seventeen minutes is plenty on the treadmill--if it's done fast. That's all you need for cardiovascular benefit. You don't need to spend that extra time unless you are over weight and you need to burn off extra calories. Do it vigorously, like somebody is chasing you. You've got to do it hard. Otherwise, if you just take it easy and do it longer, you are spending all that time when you don't need it. Use that extra time with your weights instead.

In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.

No one will go to hell simply because all they needed was a little more time and they died prematurely.

The Soul is repository of information that we gather during a lifetime.

The violence of our time is caused by obedience.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.

It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.

Sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut.

Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime.

One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.

Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.

Sometimes, God is going to have you sow a seed. Sometimes, God is going to have you water a seed that someone else sows. Sometimes, God is going to have you reap where others have sowed and watered.

If you really think back to the great writers, there's a lot of happiness in Tolstoy; there's a lot of love, there's childbirth, and there's dances. And likewise in Shakespeare and even Cervantes, there's a lot of celebrations of the positive manifestations of life. Technically, I found it harder to do, so that's kind of a good late-life challenge - without getting sentimental or chirpy.

Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.

Religion has what is EASILY the greatest bullshit story of all time.

The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.

The joy sometimes is in the simple beauty.

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

We all would love sometimes to be free from our own knowledge. It is even the most difficult to unlearn - as the most important problems are.