50 phrases for reflection on time that will make you value life

The years go by, the months go by, the hours fly by, the minutes are lightning and the seconds we don’t even notice anymore.

Dirceu Azevedo

Don’t waste time, it’s what life is made of.

Margaret Mitchell

Neither the future nor the present exist. Nor can it be said that the times are three: past, present and future. Perhaps it would be better to say that the times are: the present of the past; the present of the present; the present of the future. And these are in the soul; I don’t see them elsewhere. The present of the past is memory, the present of the present is perception, the present of the future is expectation.

Saint Augustine

Time can be life’s great friend or enemy. The choice belongs to those who live!

Karyne Santiago

But you have to choose. Because time runs out. There is no time for everything.

Rubem Alves

We are young for such a small part of our lives, but we seem to remain young forever. Then we are old for years and years, but right now time is flying faster.

Anne Tyler

If time left marks on you, it was because you knew how to make the most of it.

Karyne Santiago

In the culture of haste, having time is almost forbidden.

Karyne Santiago

Is not life a hundred times too short to be bored?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Time is not something you buy or produce. It is within us, of our will.

Clarice Lispector

We spend a lifetime working to conquer time, but it doesn’t always let us reach it.

Karyne Santiago

You will have time, when you choose to have time. Otherwise, you will live an illusory search. Choice!

Karyne Santiago

Time is a locomotive that takes us to a certain station where there are no return tickets.

Jean Commerson

If we get stuck thinking about time, we will never enjoy it.

Karyne Santiago

Because you are so inventive and seem continuous, time, time, time, time, you are one of the most beautiful gods.

Caetano Veloso

Time is something you only enjoy in life.

Karyne Santiago

Time is only lacking for those who do not know how to make the most of it.

Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos

Share your time with people who pay attention to you. Otherwise, it will be wasted time.

Karyne Santiago

Life is like time. The time that is not perceived, the time that never was and never will be. The time that simply is. Eternally, it is.

Augusto Branco

Manage time with an eyedropper. Don’t forget the tap of life running, wasting your valuable time.

Karyne Santiago

Life runs after us to rob us of what we have less each day.

Joaquim Pessoa

Time undoubtedly transforms us. As a tree, we experience each season differently.

Karyne Santiago

As long as you don’t value yourself, you won’t value your time. As long as you don’t value time, you won’t do anything important.

M. Scott Peck

We only understand some of life’s mysteries as time passes.

Karyne Santiago

Time passes and man does not notice.

Dante Alighieri

Why such a hurry? Things need a certain moment to happen in the same way that fruits take time to be born.

Karyne Santiago

It felt like time never passed. But passed. Time always passes. This is the only certainty we have.

Tati Bernardi

The more you chase time, the further it gets away from you!

Karyne Santiago

Eternal, is everything that lasts for a fraction of a second, but with such intensity, that it petrifies, and no force ever rescues it.

Mario Quintana

Everything in this world has its time; everything has its occasion.

Ecclesiastes 3:1

Life is made of time, but it is also made of patience!

Karyne Santiago

We are not the ones who control time, it is he who controls us.

Karyne Santiago

I’m running after the time that has passed… In the time that is passing… I don’t know where I’m going anymore.

great othello

The only certainty we have about time is that it will at some point guide us towards the end of life. For the rest, everything is uncertain, everything changes, everything passes.

Karyne Santiago

There is no greater power in the world than that of time: everything subjects, everything changes, everything ends.

Father Antonio Vieira

The “always” exists, within the infinity of things that make you be you. Our mind is eternal!

Karyne Santiago

Time does not exist. What we call time is the movement of evolution of things, but time itself does not exist. Or it exists immutable and in it we move.

Clarice Lispector

Time is like money. We are always wanting more, but the more you have, the more you spend!

Karyne Santiago

My favorite pastime is letting time go by, having time, enjoying my time, wasting time, living in setbacks.

Françoise Sagan

Time is subjective. I’ve seen eternal loves last just a blink of an eye.

Karyne Santiago

What to spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.

Raymond Kurzweil

If you lack time, something is in excess.

Karyne Santiago

Time is not the movement of the clock’s hands, but how we perceive, live and feel this interval. Measured time is different from lived time!

Carlos Hilsdorf

Time brings. Time takes away. Time is lacking. Time prevails. The time flies. Time does not pass. Time is for or against. As per the time.

Martha Medeiros

Time does not stop! Only nostalgia makes things stop in time.

Mario Quintana

In any circumstance, choose the time. Without it, life has no chance of triumphing.

Karyne Santiago

So that’s how it is, we are present, past and future. Infinite time in one, this is the eternal.

Caio Fernando Abreu

Everything is bought, except the amount of time we will spend in life.

Karyne Santiago

If you don’t have time to do something well, what makes you think you’ll have time to redo it?

Seth Godin

We may not have all the time in the world, but we have as much time as we want.

Karyne Santiago