The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
—Robert Byrne
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
—Unknown
The year hastens to its close. What is it to me? That I am twenty-five or fifty-eight is as nothing. Should I mourn that the spring flowers are gone, that the summer fruit has ripened, that the harvest is reaped, that the snow has fallen?
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.
—Charles Caleb Colton
Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time? My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
—Jonathan Safran Foer in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.
—Louis L'Amour in Lonely on the Mountain
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
—Kahlil Gibran
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
—Mark Twain
If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juicy middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.
—Sarah Dessen in The Moon and More
In the Buddhist view, I depend on you for my existence. All things depend on each other, equally. Welcome to the doctrine of dependent origination. It's teeter-totter metaphysics—I arise, you arise; you arise, I arise. Forget about our presumed Maker, the divine machinist in the sky. Take a look at this moment right now. You are you because you are not something else; therefore, what you are not—the chair beneath you, the air in your lungs, these words—births you through an infinity of opposites. It's like the ultimate Dr. Seuss riddle: Without all the things that are not you, who would you be you to? There's no Higher Power in this system to grab on to for support; we are all already supporting each other. Pull a person or people the wrong way and you immediately redefine yourself in light of what you've done to your neighbor.
—Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk
You may delay, but time will not.
—Benjamin Franklin
Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.
—Groucho Marx
Autumn's the mellow time.
—William Allingham
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
—Ludwig Mies van der Rohe