Time
But not all time is spent equally. There are certain areas of our lives where the preciousness of time is heightened, and this awareness allows you to approach the concept of time more mindfully. Not only are you more aware of how you’re spending it, but you are much more grateful when others give it to you as well.
Lawrence Yeo • Why Having a Wedding Makes Sense
“Time steals some things, but it gives us back others. Making time our ally is an important part of our work.”
Haruki Murakami • Killing Commendatore: A novel
How strange that we cannot love time. It spoils our loveliest moments. Nothing quite comes up to expectations because of it. We alone: animals, so far as we can see, are unaware of time, untroubled. Time is their natural environment. Why do we sense that it is not ours?
A quote from A Severe Mercy
Our future selves understand the value of time better than any of us. The version of ourselves looking back over the landscape of our lives, staring down oblivion, knows damn well the importance of time.
Elysha Dicks • Someday Is Today
the value of time comes not from the sheer quantity you have, but from whether you’re in sync with the people you care about most.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
Time is a cage we’re stuck within. Fine. Now I want to explore that cage to its very limits.
And the best way to do that — and push back against the relentless ticktockticktock of the clock — is through passion. We gain absolutely everything in embracing all of the things we love.