Best wish & time Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by his passions. The time of the one is long, because he does not know what to do with it; so is that of the other, because he distinguishes every moment of it with useful or amusing thoughts--or, in other words, because the one is always wishing it away, and the other always enjoying it.”

Knows Men Long Doe Ideas Moments Time Passion Wish Enjoy Hours Wise Fool Amusing

Book:The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

Source: The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

“When one cannot be sure that there are many days left, each single day becomes as important as a year, and one does not waste an hour in wishing that that hour were longer, but simply fills it, like a smaller cup, as high as it will go without spilling over.”

Years Doe Important Time Left Wish Hours Waste Cups Spilling

Author:Natalie Kusz

“I have a vocabulary all my own. I "pass the time" when it is wet and disagreeable. When it is fine I do not wish to pass it; I ruminate it and hold on to it. We should hasten over the bad, and settle upon the good.”

Should Self Time Wish My Own Fine Settling Good Times Wet Vocabulary Disagreeable

Book:The Essays

Source: The Essays

“Courage changes things for the better...[With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.”

Long Two Enough Age Success Time Three Hope Wish Change Realizing Courage Four Succeed

Author:Earl Nightingale

“What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.”

Ifs Knows Time Asks Wish Ask Me Time Management Concept Of Time

Book:Confessions

Source: Confessions

“Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of their beauty. Every sign indicates that nature wants us and wishes for collaboration with us, just as we long for nature to be fulfilled in us. If our original state was to live in a garden, as Adam and Eve did, then a garden signals our absolute origins as well as our condition of eternity, while life outside the garden is time and temporality.”

“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.”

Ifs Men Long Age Time Wish Philosophical Aging Old Age Good Times Old Man Time Management 50th Birthday Funny Old Age Birthday

Author:Marcus Aurelius

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