Quotes about Time

The present moment is significant, not as the bridge between past and future, but by reason of its contents, which can fill our emptiness and become ours, if we are capable of receiving them

Now is the only time we own; give, love, toil with a will. And place no faith in tomorrow, for the clock may then be still.

The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

Yesterday has gone. Tomorrow may never come. There is only the miracle of this moment. Savor it. It is a gift.

Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you, and anything that is ever going to happen to you, is just a thought.

Today was once the future from which you expected so much in the past.

Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

Every April, God rewrites the Book of Genesis.

All kings, and all their favourites, All glory of honours, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes time, as they pass, Is elder by a year now than it was When thou and I first one another saw. All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This no to-morrow hath, nor yesterday; Running it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.