#time

Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life... ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#civilization #compassion #contempt #man #time

Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#live-life #time #life

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated. ↗

— Thomas More

#few #greatest #many #our #our time

Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going? ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#time #life

The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#life

I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times. ↗

— Mukesh Ambani

#fundamental #grow #growth #i #i think

Our life is made up of time. Our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. [...] And yet time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could. ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#life

Confronted with the choice between having time and having things, we’ve chosen to have things. Today it is a luxury to read what Socrates said, not because the books are expensive, but because our time is scarce. ↗

— Gabriel Zaid

#time #age

Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#book #every #every time #get #i

Times do keep changing - thank God. ↗

— Cokie Roberts

#god #keep #thank #thank god #times