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Tag: life, time

Hanya Yanagihara

But time, I have come to realize, is not for us to fill in such great, blank slabs. We speak of managing time, but it is the opposite. Our lives are filled with businesses because those thin chinks of time are all we can truly master.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is more highly to be prized than the value of each day

I suffered most from the feeling that custom was daily petrifying our lives into one fixed shape, that our minds were losing their freedom and becoming enslaved to the steady passionless course of time.

And if you don’t find what you’re looking for?”At Roy’s question Addie looked up.”Then all I’ve lost is time.

Charlaine Harris

The full moon symbol on my calendar no longer seemed to be a period marking the end of something, but just another way of counting time.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.

Michel de Montaigne

The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

Time wounds all heals.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because the moment simply is.

Wallace Stegner

No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.

Dorothy Koomson

Every second counts