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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"Memory of past pleasures provides pleasure in the present moment."
Epicureanism Epicurus
"Time is the space between what was and what will be."
Laozi
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"We should live as though we might die tomorrow, yet plan as though we might live forever."
Epicureanism Epicurus
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"Time wasted in unnecessary pursuits can never be recovered."
Epicureanism Epicurus
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"No one steps in the same river twice."
Heraclitus
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"Time is a river of passing events."
Heraclitus
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"One cannot enter the same river twice."
Heraclitus
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"Time waits for no one, yet everything comes to those who wait."
Heraclitus
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"If one takes care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves."
Confucius
"Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river of passing events."
Thales of Miletus
"The present moment is all we truly possess."
Thales of Miletus
"The moment the flower blooms, it is already dying."
Laozi
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"Time cannot exist in a changeless universe."
Zeno of Elea
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"The moment is both eternal and fleeting."
Zeno of Elea
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"Being has no temporal extent."
Zeno of Elea
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"The infinite cannot be completed in time."
Zeno of Elea
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"True being transcends the categories of time."
Zeno of Elea
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"The infinite cannot be traversed in time."
Zeno of Elea
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"Time is the canvas upon which we paint our lives."
Pythagoras
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"You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you."
Heraclitus
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"Time is a child playing a board game; the kingship is in the hands of a child."
Heraclitus
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"Time is not a river flowing away from us, but a mirror in which we see ourselves."
Zhuangzi
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"The beginning and end of all things are found in the present moment."
Zhuangzi
"The oldest of all things is the sun, for it illuminates all that came before."
Thales of Miletus
"The stars above teach those below about order and harmony."
Thales of Miletus
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"Time is the fire in which we burn; use it wisely."
Pythagoras
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"Time passes whether we use it or waste it; choose wisely."
Pythagoras
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
Laozi
"Time is the greatest healer; this too shall pass."
Epicurus
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"Consider the arrow in flight: at each instant it occupies a space equal to itself, and if it occupies such a space, it is at rest."
Zeno of Elea