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Time Quotes by John O'Donohue
- If you live in this world with kindness, if you don't add to other people's burdens, but if you try to serve love, when the…
- Imitate the habit of twilight,/Taking time to open the well of color/That fostered the brightness of day.
- Either we are in the universe to inhabit the eternity of our souls and grow real, or else we might as well dedicate our days…
- When a blessing is invoked, a window opens in eternal time.
- Each morning we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of time; each night we surrender to the…
- The beauty of nature insists on taking its time. Everything is prepared. Nothing is rushed. The rhythm of emergence is a gradual, slow beat; always…
- We have surface time, which is the time we move through every day, but we need to reach the rhythms of deep time. Like the…
- The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released from the prison of shape and the burden of exposure. Each thing…
- All the possibilities of your human destiny are asleep in your soul. You are here to realize and honor these possibilities. When love comes in…
- Every friendship travels at sometime through the black valley of despair. This tests every aspect of your affection. You lose the attraction and the magic.…
- Your beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their arrival seemed so…
- When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence.
- ...the only difference between a young person at the height of their exuberance and a very old person who is frail and physically wasted is…
- Transience is the force of time that makes a ghost of every experience. There was never a dawn, regardless how beautiful or promising, that did…
- You have traveled too fast over false ground; Now your soul has come to take you back. Take refuge in your senses, open up To…
- On its outer surface time is vulnerable to transience. Regardless of its sadness or beauty, each day empties and vanishes. In its deeper heart, time…
- Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.
- This is the time to be slow, Lie low to the wall Until the bitter weather passes. Try, as best you can, not to let…
- We rush through our days in such stress and intensity, as if we were here to stay and the serious project of the world depended…
- We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrender. Each morning, we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new…
More Time Quotes
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time. — J. J. Abrams
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani