Time Quotes

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

We live in a world where everything is connected. We can not longer think in terms of us and them when it comes to the consequences of the way we live. Today it's all about WE.

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.

It's always good to be underestimated.

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it.

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.

I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.

Worrying is arrogant because God knows what He's doing.

I'm not much but I'm all I have.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.

But life isn’t about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting your past. It’s about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes.

I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

Never try to outstubborn a cat.

The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.

When our focus is toward a principle of relatedness and oneness, and away from fragmentation and isolation, health ensues

If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.

Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.

I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.

Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies.

No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend

There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

Don't worry about it. The right thing will come at the right time.

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

Mass advertising can help build brands, but authenticity is what makes them last. If people believe they share values with a company, they will stay loyal to the brand.

The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough.

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.