The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.
We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.
Time by itself means nothing, no matter how fast it moves, unless we give it something to carry for us; something we value. Because it is such a precious vehicle, is time.
Time is the Mercy of Eternity
What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.
The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow.
O aching time! O moments big as years!
Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
There's two dates in time That they'll carve on your stone And everyone knows what they mean What's more important Is the time that is known In that little dash there in between That little dash there in between
Time isn't just a fleeting thing. It never moves forward without engraving its mark upon the heart.
Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing. Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that 'yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name
We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.
You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
