temporal value Quotes

time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.

When Jesus warns us not to store up treasures on earth, it's not just because wealth might be lost; it's because wealth will always be lost. Either it leaves us while we live, or we leave it when we die. No exceptions....Realizing its value is temporary should radically affect our investment strategy.... According to Jesus, storing up earthly treasures isn't simply wrong. It's just plain stupid.

Some things we have only as long as they remain lost, some things are not lost only so long as they are distant.

Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.

Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.

Time, the ultimate arbiter of what is of value in life.

Even the best thief in the world can't steal time.

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would set a high price? It would be just as if a man should fall in love with one of the sparrows which fly by, but it has already passed out of sight.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrecoverable.

Time did not mean anything to those who had too much of it, but it was even more precious once it was limited.