Time Quotes

We all get the same 24 hours. These quotes explore what we do with them and why it matters.

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"I teach that we should care for the moment and not worry about distant rewards."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Time does not heal all wounds; understanding heals them."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Time is the gift we are given to perfect ourselves."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"Eternity is not length but depth of experience."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"Time is the stage upon which eternity plays."
Jacob Böhme
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"In each moment lies eternity."
Jacob Böhme
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"Time is the most precious gift, yet we treat it as though we have endless supplies."
Jonathan Edwards
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"Every moment wasted is a fragment of eternity lost forever."
Jonathan Edwards
"The time for compassion is always now, never tomorrow."
Charles Wesley
"Time is the canvas upon which we paint the masterpiece of our lives."
Charles Wesley
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"The eternal recurrence is the greatest weight that one can bear."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Those who know the value of time never waste it on trivial matters."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Every moment of joy carries within it the seed of future sorrow."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry."
John Wesley
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"The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion."
William James
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"Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society."
William James
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"The present moment is all that any of us can ever live in."
William James
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"The essence of time is found not in its passage but in its presence."
Jacob Böhme
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"Time is a gift given to those who understand its preciousness."
Jacob Böhme
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"Time is a divine gift that reveals to us the consequences of our choices."
Emanuel Swedenborg
"Let us not postpone the work of redemption, for time reveals all things."
Charles Wesley
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"Time is something relative to imagination."
Spinoza
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"Time is the measure of change."
Ibn Arabi
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"Every moment contains eternity."
Ibn Arabi
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"Time is the canvas on which we paint our lives."
Ibn Arabi
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"Keep in the eternal now, where time ceases."
George Fox
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"Every moment offers an opportunity for spiritual growth."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"Every moment offers an opportunity for spiritual awakening."
Jacob Böhme
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"Time is an illusion; eternity is the only reality."
Jacob Böhme
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"Every moment contains an eternity."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)