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The Commonplace Book

A Digital Florilegium

§ On Time

Reflections on the river that carries us all

"Time is the longest distance between two places."

— Tennessee Williams

"The present is the only thing that has no end."

— Erwin Schrödinger

"Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind."

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Lost time is never found again."

— Benjamin Franklin

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."

— Leo Tolstoy

"Time moves in one direction, memory in another."

— William Gibson

"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven."

— Ecclesiastes 3:1

"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."

— William Gibson

"Time is the fire in which we burn."

— Delmore Schwartz

"What then is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I wish to explain it, I know not."

— St. Augustine

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

— Mother Teresa

"Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time' is to say 'I don't want to.'"

— Lao Tzu

"We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right."

— Martin Luther King Jr.

"The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it."

— Thich Nhat Hanh

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."

— Annie Dillard

✎ To truly see something, first you must stop labeling it.

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