“You know, going back to old places is not always a good idea.”
~ Paul McCartney / GQ
Marian Keyes on Patience
What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Wait it out, things will always change.
~ Marian Keyes / Guardian
Donald Hall on Foolishness
“When I was nineteen,
I told a thirty-
year-old man what a
fool I had been when
I was seventeen.
‘We were always,’ he
said glancing down, ‘a
fool two years ago.”
~ Donald Hall
Philip Larkin on Kindness
…we should be careful
Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.
~ Philip Larkin / The Mower
Cliff Crozier on Reconnaissance
Time spent on reconnaissance is seldom wasted.
Cliff Crozier / YouTube
Alec Soth on Art
“Waste more time.”
~ Alec Soth / LBM Newsletter, November 27th 2020
Barbara Ehrenreich on Slavery
What you don’t necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you’re really selling is your life.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
Stephen Dobyns on Rushing
Each thing I do, I rush through so I can do something else.
~ Stephen Dobyns / Pursuit
Paul Theroux on Time
He was building a raft, which he said he was going to sail around the country. I asked, ‘Do you think you can do it?’ He said, ‘You can go anywhere if you’re not in a hurry.’
~ Paul Theroux
Tacitus on Truth
“Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.”
~
Plato on Trifling
“Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling and useless things than they deserve.”
~ Plato
William Shakespeare on Truth
…but in the end truth will out.
~ William Shakespeare
Diogenes on Time
“It was a favourite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.”
~ Diogenes
Elizabeth Taylor on Patience
“It is very strange that the years teach us patience – that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.”
~ Elizabeth Taylor
J.R.R. Tolkien on Time
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
~ J.R.R. Tolkien / The Fellowship of the Ring
Alan Watts on Time
“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone”
~ Alan Watts
William Shakespeare on Time
“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me”
~ William Shakespeare
Geoffrey Chaucer on Time
“The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.”
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Hunter Thompson on Vengeance
“Because sooner or later the enemy will make a mistake and then you start grinding him down.”
~ Hunter Thompson
William Shakespeare on Reputations
“Men’s evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.”
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare on Enemies
“Here in these confines slily have I lurk’d,
To watch the waning of mine enemies”
~ William Shakespeare
Randy Pausch on Time
“The key question to keep asking is, are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.”
~ Randy Pausch
Carl Jung on Passions
“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”
~ Carl Jung
Carl Jung on Patience
“The greatest, most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.”
~ Carl Jung
William Shakespeare on Timeliness
“A little fire is quickly trodden out,
Which being suffer’d, rivers cannot quench.”
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare on Time
“Time’s glory is to calm contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light,
To stamp the seal of time in aged things,
To wake the morn, and sentinel the night,
To wrong the wronger till he render right”
~ William Shakespeare
Bertrand Russell on Leisure
“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
~ Bertrand Russell
William Shakespeare
“Truth will come to light.”
~ William Shakespeare
Marcus Aurelius on Living in the Moment
“Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see.”
~ Marcus Aurelius
Seneca on Patience
“If you want to determine the nature of anything, entrust it to time: when the sea is stormy, you can see nothing clearly.”
~ Seneca
Jean Racine on Secrets
“There are no secrets that time does not reveal.”
~ Jean Racine
George Eliot on Time
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
~ George Eliot