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900 Best Quotes About Time: Inspire, Motivate (2023)

1. “Take one day at a time. Today, after all, is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”


2. I notice everything, but I don’t show it on my face or in my eyes because that would be weird and rude to do so if someone doesn’t know me very well yet or only met me for the first time at work today, for example.


3. “Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us.” – Nicole Reed


4. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. — Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace


5. “Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.”


6. “Time is nature’s way to keep everything from happening all at once.”


7. “To live is so startling, it leaves little time for anything else.” — Emily Dickinson


8. “Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.” — George Harrison


9. “A good friend of mine once told me that each morning when you wake up, think about winning the day. Don’t worry about a week from now or a month from now – just think about one day at a time. If you are worried about the mountain in the distance, you might trip over the molehill right in front of you. Win the day!”


10. “Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery, and self-control more than anything else.”


11. “My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don’t worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.”


12. “It’s not that we have a little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.”


13. Think ... of the world which you carry within yourself ... and set it above everything that you notice about you. Your inmost happening is worth your whole love, that is what you must somehow work at, and not loose too much time and too much courage in explaining your attitude to people. - Author: Rainer Maria Rilke


14. “You notice. And noticing, you live.” – John Graves


15. You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” -Jon Kabat-Zinn


16. “Life is flying by. You don’t have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward.”


17. “I’m not a legend or a hero, I don’t slay dragons, I don’t do any of the things that a real hero can. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom.”


18. We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. - Marian Wright Edelman


19. “In meditation we discover our inherent restlessness. Sometimes we get up and leave. Sometimes we sit there but our bodies wiggle and squirm and our minds go far away. This can be so uncomfortable that we feel’s it’s impossible to stay. Yet this feeling can teach us not just about ourselves but what it is to be human…we really don’t want to stay with the nakedness of our present experience. It goes against the grain to stay present. These are the times when only gentleness and a sense of humor can give us the strength to settle down…so whenever we wander off, we gently encourage ourselves to “stay” and settle down. Are we experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What’s for lunch? Stay! I can’t stand this another minute! Stay!””


20. Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.” — Ray Cummings, The Girl in the Golden Atom


21. “Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn’t work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.”


22. “The key is to have a balanced life. Set aside a fraction of your time to carry out your dreams and ambitions.” ~ Michael Lee


23. “The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.” — William Butler Yeats


24. Sometimes what matters most is how YOU feel about yourself and how others treat you.


25. “It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up – that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross


26. “And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”


27. “Enjoy yourself. It’s later than you think.” ~ Chinese Proverb


28. Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun


29. “Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all its pupils.”


30. “Half our time is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”


31. “I had been too good too many times. It could become a problem. But what could I do? Be stupid for a while? I wasn’t sure I knew how, even after so many years of careful observation.”


32. “Maybe,” he said, rubbing her forehead. “But don’t worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination. It’s your superpower. Tapping into the dream. It’s a good thing not a bad thing.” ― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being


33. “With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have.” — Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper


34. “Living life one day at a time can be a great stress- and anxiety-reducer. Just being in the now instead of in the past or a possible future in your mind makes life lighter and simpler.”


35. There’s only one thing more precious than our time and that’s…


36. “I live one day at a time. I dream one dream at a time. Yesterday's dead, and tomorrow is blind. And I live one day at a time.”


37. “We all know our money isn’t infinite, yet we end up treating our time and energy and attention as if they are.”


38. “If you are a grandfather, give your grandchildren what they long for most – your time.” ~ Carolyn Booth


39. “Time is a gift that most of us take for granted. We get so caught up in the busyness of our daily lives that we rarely stop and take a serious look at how we’re spending this gift.” ~ Cheryl Richardson


40. “Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.”


41. “I’d say many features of string theory don’t mesh with what we observe in everyday life.” — Brian Greene


42. “Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!”


43. “Time is a great healer but a poor beautician.” —Lucille S. Harper


44. I notice everything I just pretend not to.


45. “So little time and so little to do.” —Oscar Levant


46. “You must vie with time’s swiftness in the speed of using it, and, as from a torrent that rushes by and will not always flow, you must drink quickly.”


47. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” — Bruce Lee


48. “All of us are watchers – of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway – but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.”


49. “Life’s so full that you just take it one day at a time.”


50. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” —Michael Altshuler


51. “I’ve been sober now for a couple of years and I’m taking my sobriety very seriously – one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.”


52. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have 24-hour days.”


53. “Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.”


54. “Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.” ~ Tim Ferriss


55. “Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion. ”


56. “Give your attention to the experience of seeing rather than to the object seen and you will find yourself everywhere.” – Rupert Spira


57. “It is not the load that breaks you down. It’s the way you carry it.” — Lena Horne


58. I spend my days silently observing the world around me, and I never get angry or offended by anyone or anything.


59. “The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.”


60. “When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you” -Lao Tzu


61. “Take one step at a time. A complex problem can be overwhelming, even when you’ve got your plan mapped out, but remember: the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Just focus on one small goal at a time.”


62. “You can’t make up for lost time. You can only do better in the future.” — Ashley Ormon


63. “The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.” – Albert Einstein


64. “True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.” ― Henry James, Roderick Hudson


65. “Everyone is lonely, we have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot worry about the past or future. Happiness is in the now.”


66. Mindfulness can help people of any age that’s because we become what we think. –Goldie Hawn


67. “The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything.”– Eckhart Tolle


68. “One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.” – Alphonse Bertillon


69. The moment that you are willing to step outside of tomorrow, outside of needing more time, or having more time, everything becomes possible. And you may finally notice where the Buddha has always been. - Author: Adyashanti


70. Never overlook the littlest things that can mean pure happiness to someone else. - Mischa Temaul


71. “You ought to spend a little more time trying to make something of yourself and a little less time trying to impress people.”


72. “Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.”


73. “As important as it is to have a plan for doing work, it is perhaps more important to have a plan for rest, relaxation, self-care, and sleep.”


74. “I don't talk things, sir,' said Faber. 'I talk the meaning of things. I sit here and know I'm alive.”


75. “My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.”


76. “If it weren’t for the last minute, nothing would get done.”


77. “He who knows most grieves most for wasted time.”


78. “Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time.”


79. “If you train your mind to search for the positive things about other people, you will be surprised at how many good things you can observe in them and comment upon.” – Alan Loy McGinnis


80. “No measure of time with you will be long enough. But let’s start with forever.” — Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn


81. “Life at its essence boils down to one day at a time. Today is the day!”


82. “The present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own.” —Charles Caleb Colton


83. “One can find time for everything if one is never in a hurry.”


84. “You only lose what you cling to.” ~ Buddha


85. “The present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own.” ~ Charles Caleb Colton


86. “Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep t, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it, you can never get it back.” —Harvey Mackay


87. “You have a treasure within you that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.” ~Eckhart Tolle


88. “Time you enjoy wasted was not time wasted.” — John Lennon


89. “Aside from Velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe. You can’t see it or touch it, yet a plumber can charge you upwards of $75 per hour for it without necessarily fixing anything.” —Dave Barry


90. “I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.” — John Donne


91. “We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.”


92. “Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of non-forgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence.” -Eckhart Tolle


93. “People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.” – Thich Nhat Hanh


94. “Let go of your mind and then be mindful.


95. “If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.” — Daniel Goleman


96. “From the dawn of exact knowledge to the present day, observation, experiment, and speculation have gone hand in hand; and, whenever science has halted or strayed from the right path, it has been, either because its votaries have been content with mere unverified or unverifiable speculation (and this is the commonest case, because observation and experiment are hard work, while speculation is amusing); or it has been, because the accumulation of details of observation has for a time excluded speculation.”


97. “Let go, or be dragged.” ~ Zen proverb


98. “Mindless fear is greater than mindful fear.”


99. “Time is a created thing. To say “I don’t have time” is to say “I don’t want to.” “ ~ Lao Tzu


100. I am a person who is always thinking, but I don’t speak much. I observe everything that happens around me, but I rarely talk about it. I notice everything, but I do not talk about it openly.


101. “When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help.”


102. “In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility.” – Victoria Moran


103. It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't dodge a fly. - Josh Billings


104. “The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn


105. “A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I’ve got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.”


106. “Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.” — Lucille S. Harper


107. “We need to determine what activities best utilize our time in order to achieve the results we desire in all areas of our life! “ ~ Catherine Pulsifer


108. ”Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” – Thich Nhat Hanh


109. “I take one day at a time. I’ve always been like that.”


110. Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. - Dean Acheson


111. “You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.” — Charles Buxton


112. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”


113. “The thing about Time is that its so abundant for everybody, everyone has exactly twenty four hours in a day to prove ourselves, to achieve all we have for that day.” ~ James Clear


114. “There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.”


115. “Time isn’t the main thing. It’s the only thing.” ~ Miles Davis


116. It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes. - Robert Duvall


117. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”


118. “It’s one day at a time, that’s all there is to it, and so I don’t have to worry about it. All I do is, okay, I do not have to drink. And if I feel like it, I postpone it for ten minutes, and that way I find something else to do in the meantime.”


119. “The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.” — Sydney J. Harris


120. “The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.” ~Albert Einstein


121. “I sometimes think my head is so large because it is so full of dreams.”


122. “It's a waste of time to think about what I should have done and what I didn't… I live my life one day at a time.”


123. “Strong minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Weak minds discuss people.” – Socrates


124. Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right’. Start…


125. “Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.” — Marcel Proust


126. “Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.” — Jorge Luis Borges


127. “When I’m doing a movie, I’m not doing anything else. It’s all about the movie. I don’t have a wife. I don’t have a kid. Nothing can get in my way… I’ve made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.”


128. “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” ~ Roy T. Bennett


129. “Although we try to control it in a million different ways, the only things you can ever really do to time are enjoy it or waste it. That’s it.” —A.J. Compton


130. I notice, however, that Peter only pretends to inject himself - when he presses the plunger down, the fluid runs down his throat, and he wipes it casually with a sleeve.


131. “All your power resides in the now. Mindfulness is the best tool to tap you into that power.” — Anita M. Scott


132. Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but…


133. “Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.” ~ Peter Drucker


134. “I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.” – Christopher Isherwood


135. “If you are facing in the right direction, all you need to do is keep on walking.” – Buddha


136. “The way to live in the present is to remember that ‘This too shall pass.’ When you experience joy, remembering that ‘This too shall pass’ helps you savor the here and now. When you experience pain and sorrow, remembering that ‘This too shall pass’ reminds you that grief, like joy, is only temporary.” – Joey Green


137. “Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.” — Alice Walker, The Color Purple


138. “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”


139. It all adds up


140. “Four things come not back, the spoken word, the sped arrow, time past, and the neglected opportunity.”


141. “There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” — Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever


142. “Every time we become aware of a thought, as opposed to being lost in a thought, we experience that opening of the mind.” – Joseph Goldstein


143. “It’s okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others, and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.” — Faith Hill


144. “I’m mesmerized by lipstick prints on coffee cups.


145. An inch of time is an inch of gold, but you can’t buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.” — Chinese Proverb


146. “Observation is an old man’s memory.” – Jonathan Swift


147. “Time is the longest distance between two places.” ~ Tennessee Williams


148. “We feast on time as time feasts on us.” ~ Maria Popova


149. I notice everything but I decided to stay quiet because now I am tired.


150. But when oxidation nibbles more slowly - more delicately, like a tortoise - at the world around us, without a flame, we call it rust and we sometimes scarcely notice as it goes about its business consuming everything from hairpins to whole civilizations. - Author: Alan Bradley


151. “Every minute of your time is either spent helping or hurting your chance for the victory you are seeking in your life. Each minute can be an investment.” ~ Lisa Kardos


152. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”


153. “Through clever sleuthing, guesswork, and observation, Hazel discovers that Mr. Petrusca can’t read.”


154. The key to happiness!


155. “The important thing is to take your time and not get stressed.”


156. “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” ~Amit Ray


157. I am not particularly interested in saving time; I prefer to enjoy it.” — Eduardo Galeano


158. “So little time and so little to do.”


159. “Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.” — William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury


160. “Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.”


161. “Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.” — Robert Orben


162. “You may delay, but time will not.”


163. “Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.”


164. “A sunset, almost formidable in its splendor, would be lingering in the fully exposed sky. Among its imperceptibly changing amassments, one could pick out brightly stained structural details of celestial organisms, or glowing slits in dark banks, or flat, ethereal beaches that looked like mirages of desert islands. I did not know then (as I know perfectly well now) what to do with such things—how to get rid of them, how to transform them into something that can be turned over to the reader in printed characters to have him cope with the blessed shiver—and this inability enhanced my oppression.”


165. Sometimes, little things make a big difference. - Nino Varsimashvili


166. “Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.” ~ Theophrastus


167. “Make use of time, let not advantage slip.”


168. “I remind myself every day just how lucky I am to do what I love! I feel so fortunate and I’m just trying to take my life one day at a time.”


169. I’m working on being more positive and present in my life—and less concerned about how other people are acting around me.


170. “Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.” — Tim Ferriss, Tools of Titans


171. “No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.”


172. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” – Henry David Thoreau


173. I keep quiet about most of this because I care about you and your feelings. But sometimes, I need to share my observations with someone who will listen without judgment. If that’s something you’re interested in, let’s talk!


174. “Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.” — Camille Pissarro


175. Little strokes fell great oaks. - Benjamin Franklin


176. “We go back and forth between being time’s master and its victim.” — James Gleick


177. A man who dares to waste one hour of time has…


178. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring


179. “Wholeheartedly do what it takes to awaken your clear-seeing intelligence, but one day at a time, one moment at a time. If we live that way, we will benefit this earth.”


180. And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about. - Roger Penrose


181. “The only time you should ever look back is to see how far you’ve come.”


182. It’s About Time: Why Time Is of the Essence


183. “Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.” – Susan Sontag


184. “That’s life: starting over, one breath at a time.” – Sharon Salzberg


185. “Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.”


186. “For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.” ~ Anonymous


187. “Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Jung


188. “I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.


189. “Cherish time. Your most valuable resource. You can never make up the time you lose. The most important choices you’ll ever make are how you use your time.” ~ David Kekich


190. “With technology and over-scheduling, we are forgetting to invest time in simple connective moments with others.”


191. “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” ~ Rodin


192. “I will only observe that ethereal sense – sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.” — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin


193. “Every time we ponder a thought, act on an impulse, or dwell on a desire, we are setting in motion a cause that will have a future effect. Mindfulness enables us to choose wisely.” – Tamara Levitt


194. “The way we spend our time defines who we are.” ~ Jonathan Estrin


195. Your actions dictate our relationship, plain and simple. And when those actions aren’t up to snuff, I won’t keep you in my life. So be good to me, and we’ll never have a problem!


196. “Big things are built one brick at a time. Victories are achieved one choice at a time. A life well-lived is chosen one day at a time.”


197. “I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.


198. “Time itself comes in drops.” — William James


199. “Our own worst enemy cannot harm us as much as our unwise thoughts. No one can help us as much as our own compassionate thoughts.” ~Buddha


200. “We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.”


201. “Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.”


202. “You have to remember one life, one death–this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death, whether we catch it on the inbreath or outbreath, requires only a moment, this moment. And along with it all the mindfulness we can muster, and each stage of our ongoing birth, and the confident joy of our inherent luminosity. (24


203. “I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don’t want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time.”


204. “Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading.Take down a musical instrument.” ― Rumi


205. “Doing nothing has become one of the lost luxuries in these hectic times. But doing nothing, even for five minutes, can be rejuvenating. Go for it: You”


206. “You never know where life is going to take you. So everything I do, I just take it one day at a time, and it always leads you to the right place.”


207. “Being mindful means that we suspend judgment for a time, set aside our immediate goals for the future, and take in the present moment as it is rather than as we would like it to be.” – Mark Williams


208. “How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness, how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?” —Dr. Seuss


209. “Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.”


210. “You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” ~Jon Kabat-Zinn.


211. Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you. –Bethany Hamilton


212. “Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.”


213. “The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.”


214. “Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts.”


215. “It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?”


216. “As time goes by, you seem to weed out the things that were making your life hard.” — Tom Petty


217. “Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”


218. “There are really only three important things to remember in life: To care, to share, and to be fair. This is not a new idea at all, and yet, observing how most people live their lives, you might think it was.” – Frederick Lenz


219. “Yoga is the dance of every cell with the music of every breath that creates inner serenity and harmony.” – Debashis Mridha


220. “The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action.” — bell hooks


221. “Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”


222. “Rule your mind or it will rule you.”


223. “Thus, by science I mean, first of all, a worldview giving primacy to reason and observation and a methodology aimed at acquiring accurate knowledge of the natural and social world. This methodology is characterized, above all else, by the critical spirit: namely, the commitment to the incessant testing of assertions through observations and/or experiments — the more stringent the tests, the better — and to revising or discarding those theories that fail the test. One corollary of the critical spirit is fallibilism: namely, the understanding that all our empirical knowledge is tentative, incomplete and open to revision in the light of new evidence or cogent new arguments (though, of course, the most well-established aspects of scientific knowledge are unlikely to be discarded entirely).


224. “The shorter way to do many things is to only do one thing at a time.”


225. “Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.” – Eugene Delacroix


226. “Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires.”


227. “Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren’t? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?”


228. “As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.” ~ Henry David Thoreau


229. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” ~ Charles Darwin


230. “No man goes before his time—unless the boss leaves early.” —Groucho Marx


231. “This isn’t just “another day, another dollar.” It’s more like “another day, another miracle.” (213


232. The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re…


233. “Every moment nature is serving fresh dishes with the items of happiness. It is our choice to recognize and taste it.” – Amit Ray


234. “A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.” – William Faulkner


235. “In life, when presented with any situation, breathe, take your time, focus and then decide what to do.”


236. “Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. ” ~ William Penn


237. “You can only do things one day at a time… Sometimes… that's the only way you can get through it.”


238. “I made a promise to keep a watch over myself, to remain master of myself, so that I might become a sure observer.” – Paul Gauguin


239. “Observe things as they are and don’t pay attention to other people.” – Huangbo Xiyun


240. “When the chest is opening, the mind is opening, and we feel emotionally shiny and stability comes.” – Vanda Scaravelli


241. “You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.”


242. “When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.”


243. “Let that shit go.” – Unknown


244. “Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.”


245. “Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” ~ M. Scott Peck


246. “All great achievements require time.” — Maya Angelou


247. “Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is to say, ‘I don’t want to.”


248. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” ~ Steve Jobs


249. “It takes careful observation, and education, and reflection, and communication with others, just to scratch the surface of your beliefs.”


250. “Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.”


251. “You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires. You decide. And if you don’t decide, others will decide for you.”


252. I notice everything, but I keep quiet. I have a lot of thoughts in my head, but I don’t say them out loud. Sometimes people think I’m weird because I don’t talk much. But when you know more than the other person, you can’t say it. You have to let them conclude on their own.


253. “Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful. so when I'm observing that's what I'm watching for. The choices people make”


254. Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to think there are no little things. - Bruce Barton


255. “Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.” ~ Margaret Peters


256. It’s a simple formula


257. Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment. –Deepak Chopra


258. “Time is the longest distance between two places.” —Tennessee Williams


259. “It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up – that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.” ― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross


260. “We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth.” ~ Seneca


261. Sometimes, I hate how much people can change, but I love how much I can adapt.


262. I don’t have time is just saying it’s not a priority.


263. “You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.”


264. “Progress changes consciousness, and when people’s consciousness changes, then their awareness of what is possible changes as well a virtuous circle.”


265. “There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sprouting of the second group and transforming the first group.”


266. “When people go through something rough in life, they say, ‘I’m taking it one day at a time.’ Yes, so is everybody. Because that’s how time works.”


267. “The life I've been exposed to has let me know what step to take and how not to go back a step. I take life one day at a time, and I prepare myself for each one of those days.”


268. I notice everything, but I keep quiet and pretend I don’t. I’m not afraid to speak my mind, but I will wait until the time is right. I’ll let the truth come out when it’s ready to be heard.


269. I notice that you always wear the same perfume and that it smells like heaven, like warm bread and fresh flowers on a summer day. I remember all of these things because they’re part of who you are and how we met in the first place.


270. “Don’t let a day go by without asking who you are…each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness.” ― Deepak Chopra, The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life


271. “A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.” – Alexander Pope


272. There’s never enough time to do it right, but there’s always enough time to do it over.” — Jack Bergman


273. “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” ~ Andy Warhol


274. Training your mind to be in the present moment is the number one key to making healthier choices. — Susan Albers


275. “If one has no time, one has also lost oneself.” — Marc Wittmann, Felt Time


276. “Breathe in the good shit. Breathe out the bull shit.” – Karen Salmansohn


277. I watch people, which is why I notice things about them. I don’t always share what I notice with them, though. It’s not always appropriate or necessary for me to do so. I see everything, but most of the time, I don’t judge people on it because everyone has their own story.


278. “Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.” – Publilius Syrus


279. I notice everything, but I keep quiet. I wouldn’t say I like to talk about my feelings because I think they’re too personal. I know that I can be annoying sometimes, but it’s just because I care so much. I think you look beautiful today.


280. “To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.”


281. “There’s only one thing more precious than our time, and that’s who we spend it on.” —Leo Christopher


282. “There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”


283. Just when you feel you have no time to relax, know this is the moment you most need to relax. –Matt Haig


284. “One must work with time and not against it.“


285. “Awareness is the greatest agent for change.” – Eckhart Tolle


286. “Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else’s happiness or success.” – Matthieu Ricard


287. “For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald


288. “If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” – William Blake


289. Time isn’t the main thing. It’s the only thing.” — Miles Davis


290. When someone you care about starts distancing themselves from you emotionally or physically, it’s not always easy to see what they’re doing; they might be so subtle that you don’t even notice it.


291. “The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


292. Sometimes the little opportunities that fly at us each day can have the biggest impact. - Danny Wallace


293. “We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.” – Sharon Salzberg


294. “I am definitely going to take a course on time management — just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.”


295. “At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.”


296. “For the present is the point at which time touches eternity.” ~ C.S. Lewis


297. “Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.” — Hans Christian Andersen


298. I notice the little things in life and tend to stay quiet about them. It’s not because I don’t care or because it doesn’t matter to me. It’s because sometimes there aren’t words for what you’re feeling inside when something wonderful happens. Sometimes all you can do is take a deep breath and smile at how incredible life is.


299. “Don’t wait. The time will never be ‘just right.’”


300. I notice everything I just don’t speak on it.


301. “It’s easy to make it through the good times; it’s how we handle the bad times that can separates us from the crowd and move us closer to our goals.” ~ Phillip Crone


302. “No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.” ~ George Eliot


303. “We all make time for what we feel is important in our lives.” ~ Anonymous


304. “When you get a groove going, time flies.”


305. I don’t play detective or set traps or any of that; time reveals all eventually, and everything comes to light at some point or another. Your actions dictate our relationship; once you show me who you are for real, then you can make your own choices about whether my reality check is something you want to accept or not.


306. Learn to appreciate small quiet moments, the ocean, a walk on the beach, time alone, your health, your strength, your smile, your life. - Germany Kent


307. “Observe the life by cause and consequence. Explore the life by wisdom. Treat the life by equality. Complete the life by love.” – Gautama Buddha


308. “When you feel like you can’t fight anymore — don’t give up. Just take some time to rest.”


309. “I notice everything, but I don’t react simply because not everyone is worth my order, attention, and reaction.”


310. “We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves.”


311. “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then is an empty desk a sign?” – Albert Einstein


312. “Relentlessly prune bullshit, don’t wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That’s what you do when life is short.” ~ Paul Graham


313. “Time is a Non Renewable Resource. Once it is gone, it is gone. You will never see this moment again.” ~ Invajy


314. “Take it one day at a time. Then break that day into small steps. Then focus only on getting the first step all the way to done. And then the next step. That’s how you get the things that matter done every day.”


315. “The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.” —Lord Chesterfield


316. “Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”


317. “Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.” — Eleanor Brown


318. “Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom.” – Bhante Henepola Gunaratana


319. “There are no secrets that time does not reveal.” — Jean Racine


320. “The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” - Bertrand RussellCLICK TO TWEET


321. “The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment.”


322. “Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.” ~ Ray Cummings


323. “Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so. This is enough for us. In this belief we are content to live and die. If by any possibility the existence of a power superior to, and independent of, nature shall be demonstrated, there will then be time enough to kneel. Until then, let us stand erect.”


324. “The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.” ~ Thích Nhất Hạnh


325. “There is enough time for self-care. There is not enough time to make up for the life you’ll miss by not filling yourself up.”


326. “Ask yourself: Where am I? Answer: Here. Ask yourself: What time is it? Answer: Now. Say it until you can hear it.” – Ram Dass


327. “In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility. (17


328. “Self-care is one of the active ways that I love myself. When you can and as you can, in ways that feel loving, make time and space for yourself.” — Tracee Ellis Ross ‍


329. “The way we spend our time defines who we are.” — Jonathan Estrin


330. “The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.”


331. “There’s no straighter road to success than exceeding expectations one day at a time.”


332. The way you speak to yourself matters. –Unknown


333. “Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time’ is to say ‘I don’t want to.’” —Laozi


334. “Mindfulness is like taking your brain for a virtual walk. Like our bodies, our minds need time to recover after a difficult workout. It is a way to ‘walk’ it off—catch your breath, settle your muscles, and be fully present. Notice what you see, smell, feel, and hear. Be in the moment as you gain insight and nurture yourself. Even a few seconds or minutes is enough. Don't overthink—it isn't the formal practice of meditation … and you don't need sneakers.” — Lori Maney Lentini


335. “There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.” — Coco Chanel


336. “A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.”


337. “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” —Coco Chanel


338. “I’m just taking it one day at a time. Actually, that’s a total lie. I always think about what’s in front of me.”


339. It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. - Arthur Conan Doyle


340. “Sometimes it is the quiet observer who sees the most.”


341. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” ~ Michael Altshuler


342. “Remember the blue sky. It may at times be obscured by clouds, but it is always there.” — Andy Puddicombe


343. “Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.” — Robert Frost


344. “Time and tide wait for no man.” – Geoffrey Chaucer


345. “When it hurts – observe. Life is trying to teach you something.” – Anita Krizzan


346. “Art demands constant observation.”


347. “Don’t spend a dollar’s worth of time on a ten-cent decision. ” ~ Peter Turla


348. “How can we resent the life we’ve created for ourselves? Who’s to blame, who’s to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us? “ ~ Richard Bach


349. “Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”


350. “Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.”


351. “One day at a time is all we do. One day at a time is good for you.”


352. Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed, nothing…


353. “We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.” – John F. Kennedy


354. “The first opinion which one forms of a prince, and of his understanding, is by observing the men he has around him.”


355. Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie


356. “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”


357. “In a world full of doing, doing, doing, it’s important to take a moment to just breathe, to just be.” – Unknown


358. “Somewhere in this process you will come face-to-face with the sudden and shocking realization that you are completely crazy. Your mind is a shrieking gibbering madhouse on wheels barreling pell-mell down the hill utterly out of control and hopeless. No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way and you just never noticed. You are also no crazier than everybody else around you. The only real difference is that you have confronted the situation they have not.”


359. “The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.”


360. “One of the things that has been truly incredible to observe, though, is the amount of venture investment that has gone into early stage security technology.” — John W. Thompson


361. “When life is tough then take it just one day at a time. Or sometimes an hour at a time.”


362. “In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.”


363. “Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.”


364. “Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.” — Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner


365. “An inch of time is an inch of gold but you can’t buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.”


366. “Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it, you can never get it back.” — Harvey MacKay


367. “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”


368. “I believe that the best way to prepare for a future life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.”


369. “I still follow that model: just go hard every day, and take it one step at a time.”


370. “A battle is a day of your life. So we do one day at a time in self-discovery.”


371. “Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.”


372. Sometimes the people closest to us are the ones who hurt us most deeply, and we have to put on our brave faces and pretend we don’t care.


373. “Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something, then you have the time to do something about it.”


374. “The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” ~ C.S. Lewis


375. “The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can’t save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly.”


376. “To stay both focused and consistent with the action you take, go smaller. Take it one day at a time and nothing more than that.”


377. “Everything takes time. Everything that hurts passes with time where each person heals on their own schedule.” ~ Byron Pulsifer


378. “You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.”


379. “Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” — Jim Rohn


380. “Time flies so fast. Day by day left us. With or without smiles, the new days will come.”


381. Here are the best enjoy the little things quotes to read from famous people that will surely inspire you. Little things mean a lot, and you should learn to appreciate them. Sometimes, you fail to acknowledge these little things, and in the end, you lose sight of the things that matter most. May these it's the little things quotes help you realize that there is so much in these little things if you'll give some of your attention to notice them and make you understand the importance of these small things. Then you will see their immense contribution to your future success. Share these little things in life matter quotes with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them to enjoy the so-called little things in life.


382. Make “success” a meaningful word


383. “In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.”


384. “We are all visitors to this time this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home.” – Unknown


385. “Pause practice creates an open doorway to the sacredness of the place in which you find yourself.” – Pema Chodron


386. I’ve got a lot going on in my head at all times, but I see everything happening.


387. “Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.”


388. “With enough time, you can get used to almost anything.”


389. “It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.” — Vincent Van Gogh


390. Time is the wisest counselor of all.” — Pericles


391. “Time makes more converts than reason.” – Thomas Paine, Common Sense


392. “Time is a gift that most of us take for granted. We get so caught up in the busyness of our daily lives that we rarely stop and take a serious look at how we’re spending this gift.”


393. “It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it”


394. “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery


395. “Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.” ~ Rich Warren


396. “I’m becoming more silent these days. I’m speaking less and less in public. But my eyes, god damn, my eyes see everything.” – Unknown


397. “Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste your life, or master your time and master your life.”


398. “No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away.” —Haruki Murakami


399. “Am I crazy?” she asked. “I feel like I am sometimes.”


400. “I try not to worry about the future – so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.”


401. “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” — Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart


402. It's the little things that count, hundreds of them. - Cliff Shaw


403. “You can’t build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.”


404. “The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” —C.S. Lewis


405. “You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”


406. “I never have planned a whole lot of future. It’s one day at a time.”


407. “Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand, and melting like a snowflake.”


408. “Time is a storm in which we are all lost.” — William Carlos Williams


409. “If you’re going through difficult times today, hold steady. It will change soon. If you are experiencing smooth sailing and easy times now, brace yourself. It will change soon. The only thing you can be certain of is change.”


410. “Who knows, I have always lived one day at a time. Probably more adventure and excitement.”


411. “Stepping out of the busyness, stopping our endless pursuit of getting somewhere else, is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit” – Tara Brach


412. You will never find time for anything. If you want time…


413. “Time is the wisest counselor of all.” ~ Pericles


414. “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”– Thich Nhat Hanh


415. Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.


416. “It’s not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.” — Seneca


417. “But I can see. I can see everything. I can see things that Mom and Dad can’t. Or won’t.” — Edward Bloor


418. Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.


419. “It’s okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others, and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.”


420. “Today I will live in the moment. Unless the moment is unpleasant in which case I will eat a cookie.” – Unknown


421. “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff that life is made of. ” ~ Benjamin Franklin


422. “There is no time like the present to start making changes, but I have found that the best time is to start by going about your day differently as soon as you wake up.” ~ Kevin Kerr


423. “Be where you are, not where you think you should be.” – Unknown


424. “I observe the world and the people surrounding me.” — Eric Cantona


425. “We do the best we can in life, we take things one day at a time and sometimes we all just need a simple reminder of that.”


426. “Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we’re outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.” — Dani Shapiro


427. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”


428. “Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choice. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom.” – Bhante Henepola Gunaratana


429. “Do one thing at a time and do that one thing as if your life depended upon it.”


430. “A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.”


431. “I learned that, with grief, you have to take it one day at a time and learn how to find the happiness amid the heartbreak.”


432. “The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”


433. “A dinosaur held his nose as he looked around.”


434. “Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are.”


435. “Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.”


436. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” — Michael Altshuler


437. “A person playing a role will eventually forget their act. Pay attention.”


438. “Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.”


439. “Time is a game played beautifully by children.” —Heraclitus


440. “Dream big, my friend, and never give up. We all make mistakes, but none of us are mistakes. Take one day at a time. Embrace the positive attitudes, perspectives, principles, and truths I share, and you, too, will overcome.”


441. “Shy people notice everything but they don’t get noticed.”


442. “Take life on life’s terms – one day at a time. And have fun while you’re doing it.”


443. “Free time was the most precious time when you should be doing what you loved, or at least slowing down enough to remember what made your life worthwhile and happy.”


444. “The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.” — Charles Caleb Colton


445. “Take one day at a time. Allow yourself to change.”


446. “People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.”


447. “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” ~ Albert Einstein


448. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller


449. “To diminish the suffering of pain, we need to make a crucial distinction between the pain of pain, and the pain we create by our thoughts about the pain. Fear, anger, guilt, loneliness and helplessness are all mental and emotional responses that can intensify pain.” – Howard Cutler


450. “You cannot control the results, only your actions.” ~ Allan Lokos


451. “People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time.”


452. “Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.”


453. “It pays to be silent and observe at times.” – Unknown


454. “Live one day at a time and make it a masterpiece.”


455. “I’ll never worry about not being successful. I’ll just take it one day at a time, one season at a time. And play as hard as I can.”


456. “Time is long but life is short.” — Stevie Wonder


457. “The mind is just like a muscle– the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets, and the more it can expand.” – Idowu Koyenikan


458. “It’s not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. The question is, what are you industrious about?”


459. “Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.”


460. “I was quiet, but I was not blind.”


461. If you go too fast you might not notice everything. On the other hand, you don't want to be late. - Author: Maira Kalman


462. “Mindfulness is a quality that’s always there. It’s an illusion that there’s a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you’re either mindful or you’re not.” ~Richard Gere


463. “If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”


464. Don't think your practice is right or wrong. Simply bring your whole heart to your practice. — Michael Stone


465. “Altogether, the idea of meditation is not to create states of ecstasy or absorption, but to experience being.” ~Chögyam Trungpa


466. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot”


467. “The trouble is, you think you have time.” ~ Buddha


468. The key is not spending time, but in investing it.


469. “As soon as we wish to be happier, we are no longer happy.” ― Walter Landor


470. In our times, it is radical to choose to sit still and be silent, to resist an identity of busyness, ceaseless motion, and noise, and to reclaim our sanity and humanity by coming home to ourselves." — Sumi Loundon Kim


471. “To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.” – Marilyn vos Savant


472. “Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.” — Ray Bradbury


473. “If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.” ~Pema Chodron


474. I notice everything, but I keep quiet. I believe that people who talk too much don’t know the meaning of what they’re saying. I am often silent, but my silence does not mean I do not like or agree with you. It is my way of enjoying life.


475. “Believe me, my journey has not been a simple journey of progress. There have been many ups and downs, and it is the choices that I made at each of those times that have helped shape what I have achieved.”


476. “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door”


477. I see how your eyes crinkle up when you smile at me, or maybe it’s a squint from being in the sun too long. Either way, it’s cute when people squint because they’re trying to see better. It makes them look like little kids who want their mommy’s attention but aren’t sure how


478. “Although I believe we were certainly made to live with and fellowship with other people, I also believe that everyone needs their own time.


479. “Just because things are taking time, it doesn’t mean that they won’t happen.” ~ AJ Winters


480. “Seeing is the consequence of optics; observing is the consequence of imaginative contemplation.” – Ian Semple


481. I think a lot I notice everything but I never say a word.


482. “Own time, or time will own you.” — Brian Norgard


483. No step forward is too small. Just be sure it's taking you to the right dream, then take more of those tiny steps. - Israelmore Ayivor


484. “Work hard in silence. Let your success be your noise.” ~Frank Ocean


485. “Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.” – Rumi


486. “There is magic in knocking down your most important domino day after day. All you have to do is avoid breaking the chain, one day at a time until you generate a powerful new habit in your life.”


487. There's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. - Scott Adams


488. “No matter how difficult your situation is, you can get through it if you don’t look too far into the future, and focus on the present moment. You can get through anything one day at a time.”


489. “I don't need time, I need a deadline.” — Duke Ellington


490. “Scientists tend to build a reputation on refuting the theories of those who have gone before. Yet, whatever we hypothesize, observe, measure, or record about the natural world, it leaves more unanswered questions.” — Robert Winston


491. “The mind is like water. When it’s turbulent, it’s difficult to see. When it’s calm, everything becomes clear.” – Prasad Mahes


492. “Never waste any time you can spend sleeping.” —Frank H. Knight


493. “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”


494. “One can only forget about time by making use of it.”


495. “I am definitely going to take a course on time management … just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.” —Louis E. Boone


496. “Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.” ~ Amit Ray


497. “We waste so much energy trying to cover up who we are when beneath every attitude is the want to be loved, and beneath every anger is a wound to be healed and beneath every sadness is the fear that there will not be enough time.


498. “People often complain about lack of time when lack of direction is the real problem. ” ~ Zig Ziglar


499. “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” — Albert Einstein


500. “I try to take it one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.”


501. “Lost time is never found again.” ~ Benjamin Franklin


502. “Now I’m starting, relatively, to think straight again. I live one day at a time, one hour at a time. What makes it all worthwhile is my children.”


503. “That’s why, to experience that, you know for a fact that a human being is capable of so much more, because to go to that place and to step outside yourself and observe yourself do these things, while the rest of the world is moving in slow motion, is really incredible.” — Marcus Allen


504. “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” ~ Bruce Lee


505. “Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.” —Art Buchwald


506. Time Quotes: The 25 BEST Quotes About Time


507. “It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.” ― Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy


508. “Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.”


509. “There’s time enough, but none to spare.” – Charles W. Chesnutt


510. “It’s a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.” — J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire


511. “Extreme observation serves artists very well – perhaps it is the best teacher.”


512. I notice everything, but I keep quiet. I’m not a talker. I’m a doer. I don’t talk much, but when I do, it’s important. When I say something, it’s because I mean it. I don’t talk to people who don’t deserve my time.


513. “There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.”


514. “If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.” – Pema Chodron


515. “Live one day at a time, unless you can figure out how to live two.”


516. “How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?”— Dr. Seuss, “How Did it Get So Late So Soon?”


517. “Punctuality is the thief of time”


518. “Life is so fast. And I still remember when I came up to the big leagues and played as if it were yesterday. Time flies.”


519. “You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.” – Eric Hoffer


520. “The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh


521. Open the window of your mind. Allow the fresh air, new lights, and new truths to enter. -Amit Ra


522. “I have the feeling that I’ve seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.” — Anton Chekhov


523. “You cannot breathe deeply and worry at the same time.” – Sonia Choquette


524. “Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.” – Harry Potter


525. “Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn


526. “I don’t have time is just saying it’s not a priority.”


527. “I like my life. I’ve had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it’s an easy burden.”


528. “Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” ~ Lord Chesterfield


529. “There’s never enough time to do it right, but there’s always enough time to do it over.” ~ Jack Bergman


530. “Each place is the right place–the place where I now am can be a sacred space.” – Ravi Ravindra


531. “As we speak, cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow.”


532. “If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.” – Robert Baden-Powell


533. “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”


534. “Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.”


535. “The timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.” ~ Kahlil Gibran


536. “Time is money, especially when you’re talking to a lawyer, or buying a commercial.”


537. “Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.”


538. “Great people notice everything, but they never get offended. They pay close attention to what is going on around them and can absorb valuable information from their surroundings. They also notice how people act, which helps them understand people’s personalities better.” — Orrin Woodward


539. “You’ve got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what you want, you realize that all there is left then is time management. You’ll manage your time to achieve your goals because you clearly know what you’re trying to achieve in your life.”


540. “I refuse to entertain negativity. Life is too big and time is too short to get caught up in empty drama.


541. “Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.” – Eckhart Tolle


542. “I don’t speak on it all, but I notice. These mental notes have always been on point, I’ve never been naïve. Don’t underestimate what I know just because I’m selective about what I share. People think that just because you don’t care to catch them in every single lie that you aren’t paying attention. That’s a mistake. I don’t play detective or set traps or any of that. Time reveals all; eventually, everything comes to light. Your actions dictate our relationship. I don’t keep people in my life who haven’t shown me they deserve to stay. The little things add up. Always remember that.”


543. “I notice everything but I don’t show it.”


544. “The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly.” — Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh


545. “Time is a waste of money.” — Oscar Wilde


546. “Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won’t).” – James Baraz”


547. “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”


548. “Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.”


549. “Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.” – Tara Brach


550. “Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.”