#time

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

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#life #time #life

I was fourteen then. He was eighteen. Everything is biographical, Lucien Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to, why we cannot forget. Everything is collage, even genetics. There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#philosophy #sentiment #life

The idea is that we're doing it just for the joy of the actual physical experience. We may record something just for the fun of it, but the idea is just to be truly joyful and truly fun, especially for me, because I take myself too seriously all the time. ↗

— Lauren Ambrose

#because #doing #especially #experience #fun

The happiest people don’t bother about whether life is unfair. They just concentrate on what they have. ↗

— Andrew Matthews

#happiness #happiness-in-hard-times #life

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#time #life

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

— Will Rogers

#half #life #our #rushed #save

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing. ↗