Time

• "What is time? I know what it is, but when you ask me I don't." - Augustine of Hippo
• "Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• This thing all things devours:

Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;

Gnaws iron, bites steel,

Grinds hard stones to meal;

Slays king, ruins town,

And beats high mountain down.

- Riddle by J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

• "Time is money." - Benjamin Franklin
• "I confess I do not believe in time." - Vladimir Nabokov
• "All things in this world are impermanent. They have the nature to rise and pass away. To be in harmony with this truth brings true happiness." ~ Buddhist chant
• "Be fully present for five minutes every day." ~ Geneen Roth
• "Each day a day goes by." ~ Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793)
• "Each moment is a place you've never been." ~ Mark Strand
• "Everything passes, but nothing entirely goes away." Jenny Diski
• "Forever is composed of nows." ~ Emily Dickinson
• "It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper understanding." ~ Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)
• "Life is what happens while you're busy doing other things." ~ John Lennon
• "Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour." ~ Stephen Leacock
• "Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone." ~ Alan Watts
• "Our true home is the present moment.

To live in the present moment is a miracle.

The miracle is not to walk on water.

The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment..." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

• "Pulling at an olive won't make it ripen faster." Italian proverb
• "Spend some time alone every day." ~ Dalai Lama
• "The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness." ~ Gail Sheehy
• "This I offer to the secret of great Truth: Do not waste time!" ~ The Sandokai
• "Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today." ~ Martial (c. 30 - c. 103)
• "Who plants trees although he knows he'll never sit in their shadows has at least begun to recognize the sense of life." ~ Anonymous
• "You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow." ~ Janis Joplin
• "You have the watches, we have the time." ~ Haitian proverb
• "Who has time? Who has time? But then if we never take time, how can we have time?" Merovingian , The Matrix Reloaded
• "The only reason time is so that everything does not happen at once" Einstein
• "If time was a book, a bookmark would be redundant." - Jan Kaim
• "Time present and time past

Are both perhaps present in time future,

And time future contained in time past.

If all time is eternally present

All time is unredeemable.

..." ~ T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets