Joyous
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
– Rodin
Complex
People find life entirely too time-consuming.
– Stanislaw J. Lec
Cautionary
All my possessions for a moment of time.
– Elizabeth I
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Joyous
A single day is enough to make us a little larger.
– Paul Klee
Complex
Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
– Daniel J. Boorstin
Cautionary
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
– William Shakespeare
Joyous
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Complex
By the time we’ve made it, we’ve had it.
– Malcolm Forbes
Cautionary
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.
– Steve Jobs
Joyous
So little time and so little to do.
– Oscar Levant
Complex
Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.
– Chuck Sigars,
Cautionary
O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.
– Helen Hunt Jackson
Joyous
There is never enough time, unless you’re serving it.
– Malcolm Forbes
Complex
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
– Mark Twain
Cautionary
If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
– Maria Edgeworth
Joyous
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
– Douglas Adams
Complex
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
– Robert H. Schuller
Cautionary
Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.
– Sophocles
Joyous
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
– Bonnie Friedman
Complex
Ruin has taught me to ruminate,
That Time will come and take my love away.
This thought is as a death, which cannot choose
But weep to have that which it fears to lose.
– William Shakespeare
Cautionary
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
– John Wanamaker
Joyous
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.
– Franklin P. Jones
Complex
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
– Will Rogers
Cautionary
Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.
– Henry Austin Dobson
Joyous
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
– Herb Caen
Complex
Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it’s just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don’t think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.
– Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess
Cautionary
Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
– Adam Hochschild
Joyous
I took some time out for life.
– James L. Brooks
Complex
It seemed like forever ago, like we’d had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
– John Green,
Cautionary
There’s time enough, but none to spare.
– Charles W. Chesnutt