Quotes about Time
A young student reflecting on his own experience wrote recently: When loneliness is haunting me with its possibility of being a threshold instead of a dead end, a new creation instead of a grave, a meeting place instead of an abyss, then time loses its desperate clutch on me. Then I no longer have to live in a frenzy of activity, overwhelmed and afraid for the missed opportunity.
— Henri Nouwen
I know now that I have to speak from eternity into time, from the lasting joy into the passing realities of our short existence in this world, from the house of love into the houses of fear, from God's abode into the dwellings of human beings.
— Henri Nouwen
Distractions mean that we are being pulled into the past or into the future. That is what a distraction is. We start thinking about what happened yesterday or what is happening tomorrow. Distractions mean we are not yet fully here. We are not fully present yet.
— Henri Nouwen
Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God's guidance.
— Henri Nouwen
Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, I love you, too.
— Henri Nouwen
"Praying at all times" has come to mean "dwelling in the house of God all the days of our lives."
— Henri Nouwen
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
— Henry David Thoreau
I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.
— Henry David Thoreau
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches today to save nine tomorrow.
— Henry David Thoreau
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short." [ Letter to Harrison Blake ; November 16, 1857]
— Henry David Thoreau
I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
— Henry David Thoreau
God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.
— Henry David Thoreau