Life and Time

1.1.1. About life

Running is the greatest metaphor for life because you get as much from it as you invest in it. (Oprah Winfrey)

In every person’s life there are two most important days: the first one is when he was born, and the second one is when he realized what for. (William Barclay)

The great art of living is to play a lot but risk a little. (Samuel Johnson)

The whole world is a theatre, we are all involuntarily actors, an omnipotent Fate distributes roles, and heaven watches our game. (Pierre de Ronsard)

To take everything from life is to give it entirely to yourself. (Arkady Davidowitz)

You created the time, and the time could not pass until you created it. If there was no time at all before the heaven and the earth, why should you ask what you did then. When there was no time, there was no “then”. (Augustine of Hippo)

All the life is a risk management, not a risk elimination. (Walter Wriston)

Each period of life has its own value. (Wilhelm Dilthey)

There are only two forms of life: decay and burning. (Maxim Gorky)

Short is the moment between the past and the future, which is the instant that is called life! (Leonid Derbenyov)

Life is an album. A person is a pencil, while their business is a landscape. Time is an elastic gum – it bounces and erases. (Kozma Prutkov)

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Life is a mountain – you climb slowly and go down quickly. (Guy de Maupassant)

Life is like a play in a theatre – what matters is not how long it lasts, but how well it is played. (Seneca)

Life is nothing but a long series of efforts to bring happiness to yourself. (Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste)

Life is a candle in the wind. (Unknown author)

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. (Oscar Wilde)

Life is a journey, not a home. (Felix Feldheim)

Life is a sum of troubles that give a feeling of joy for being. (Tamara Kleiman)

Life is a rude thing. If you’ve started this journey, you’ll definitely slip, and you’ll get stabbed, and you’ll fall, and you’ll get tired, and you’ll exclaim, “I’d better die!” and, therefore, you’ll lie. (Seneca)

Life is looking in different mirrors in search for its own face. (Wojciech Bartoszewski)

Life is not something, but only a possibility of something. (Christian Friedrich Hebbel)

Life is almost a continuous chain of your own discoveries. (Gerhart Hauptmann)

Life is a solo on the violin in front of an audience, you only learn to play during the performance. (Samuel Butler)

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans for future. (Thomas La Mance)

Life is the series of decisions we make. (Nostradamus)

Life is outrageous when you think about it, and it’s beautiful when you live it. (Karol Cord)

Life is no brief candle to me, it is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, that I want to make burn as brightly as I can before passing it on to future generations. (George Bernard Shaw)

Life is a movement from desire to desire, and not from possession to possession. (Samuel Johnson)

Life is most charming when it vacillates between joy and sorrow, good and evil, light and shadow: in other words, when it is diversity in unity. (Pyotr Tchaikovsky)

Life is like a merrymaking. Some come to compete, others come to trade, and the happiest of all come to watch. (Pythagoras)

Life itself is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil, depending on what they turn it into. (Marcus Aurelius)

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. (George Bernard Shaw)

To live means to change, to change means to grow up, and to grow up means to constantly create yourself. (Henri Bergson)

The art of living is to embody the subtlest life of soul into a life of body. (Henry David Thoreau)

The art of living demands not only choosing the right train, but getting off at the right station. (Andre Siegfried)

When you like a flower, you pluck it. But if you love a flower, you water it daily. One, who understands this, understands life. (Buddha)

The world is a lottery of wealth, titles, honours and rights sought without any reason and distributed without any choice. (Voltaire)

The world can be compared with a chessboard – either day or night. And what about pawns? – Just you and me. We are pushed, squeezed and beaten, and put into a dark box to rest. (Omar Khayyam)

In our life we find solely what we invest in it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

We are born mortal, and we are in power of death from birth. (Juan de Jauregui)

Our life is a river flowing into the sea. (Jorge Manrique)

Our life has an experimental manner. (Jules Renard)

Our biggest success in life consists in fertilization of an egg cell by our sperm cell and not by three hundred million others. (Unknown author)

Life fest paradox: how many people are cheerful under a table, and how many people are bored at a table. (Vytautas Karalus)

Our real life is when we are alone with ourselves, we deal only with our thoughts. (Leo Tolstoy)

The salt of life is in search for something new. (Clint Eastwood)

To be able to enjoy your spent life means to live twice. (Martial)

Human life is like a box with matches. It is ridiculous to treat it seriously. It is dangerous to treat it frivolously. (Ryunosuke Akutagawa)

I realized that life is worth nothing, but I also realized that nothing is worth life. (Andre Malraux)

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Nothing is promised to you in your life. No agreement is signed with you. (Charles Bukowski)

All life is a path to a single phrase “I love you,” with further running away from it. (Francis Scott Fitzgerald)

Sometimes it seems you cannot live in this world, but if you drink, living becomes possible! (Ivan Goncharov)

Life is a struggle against fools. (Unknown author)

Life is a quarantine at the entrance to paradise. (Karl Julius Weber)

Life is a severe test, and the first hundred years are the hardest. (Wilson Mizner)

When I hear someone sigh and say, “Life is hard,” it always tempts me to ask, “Compared to what?” (Roger Miller)

The natural rhythm of human life is a routine punctuated by orgies. (Aldous Huxley)

The worst thing in life is that it passes away. (Emil Krotki)

An average person, who does not know what to do with their life, dreams of another one which would last forever. (Anatole France)

What we call life is usually just a to-do list for today. (Wanda Blonska-Wolfarth)

I think that a better world than ours would be worse than our world as a more successful combination of elements would result in more significant disadvantages. (Jean-Baptiste-Rene Robinet)

I will not refuse to live my life again from beginning to end. I will only ask the right used by authors to correct the second edition from errors present in the first one. (Benjamin Franklin)

1.1.2. Meaning of life

There is no meaning to life except the meaning that a person gives their life through the development of their abilities. (Erich Fromm)

There is something infantile in a presumption that somebody else (parents in case of children, God in case of an adult) has a responsibility to give meaning and point to your life. It reminds the infantilism of those who look around for someone to sue at the moment they twist their ankle. (Richard Dawkins)

Life has no meaning. The living things appeared under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet’s history, and as there had been a life beginning in it, so there definitely would be an end under the influence of other conditions. A man (being not more significant than other forms of life) had come not as the climax of creation but as a physical reaction to the environment. (William Somerset Maugham)

For if life were meaningless, the world would be devoid of its cruelty. (William Somerset Maugham)

Three grand essentials in this life are: something to do, something to love and something to hope for. (Joseph Addison)

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to live. That is what life means and what life is for. (George Mallory)

The meaning of life is in achievement of its purpose, the purpose of life is in making it meaningful. (Unknown author)

The meaning of life is the goals that make you value it. (William James)

Labor is the fundamental condition of life, wisdom is the goal, and happiness is the reward. (Friedrich Schiller)

The aim of life is self-development. To realize your nature perfectly, that is what each of us is here for. (Oscar Wilde)

The ABC of life is all the way from “A” to “Z”, but what about “I?” (Vladimir Lebedev)

What a tremendous blindness, what a pitiful self-deception of insignificant creatures, tiny beings traversing a speck of dirt, who, born without meaning and dying in an instant, dream about the meaning of their lives. (Semyon Frank)

Not everything is lost as long as there is something to lose. (Arkady Davidowitz)

1.1.3. Life and its logic

There is no love of life without despair of life. (Albert Camus)

The happiest life is to be without thought. (Sophocles)

The bliss of life always coincides with the end of its reasonability. (Karl Jaspers)

Life is like being at the dentist. You always think the worst is still to come though it is already over. (Otto von Bismarck)

There is nothing irrecoverable in life because nothing is important. (Simone de Beauvoir)

Nothing comes for free in life. The point is that you shouldn’t overpay. (Alfred Konar)

At the end, it’s not the years in your life that are important, but the life in your years. (Unknown author)

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a snake, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty just nothing at all. (Baltasar Gracian)

Everything is beautiful only as long as it does not concern us. Life is never beautiful, but only the pictures of life are so in a transfiguring mirror of art or poetry. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

Everything flows, everything changes. (Heraclitus)

Even when life is terrible, the world is beautiful. (Alexander Genis)

A man has two worlds: the one that created us, and the other that we create from the time immemorial to the best of our ability. (Nikolay Zabolotsky)

Money makes life more comfortable although does not replace it. (Vin Diesel)

If you have seen the changing of the seasons, they express the infancy, the youth, the virility and the old age of the world. The year has played its part, and it knows no other art but to begin itself again. (Michel de Montaigne)

The life of each person is a diary in which he or she is going to write one story, and, in fact, writes another one. (James Matthew Barrie)

Life appears dreadful when measured solely by its moments of happiness. (William Somerset Maugham)

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you react to what happens to you. (William Somerset Maugham)

Life doesn't cease to be humorous when people die, nor does it cease to be serious when people laugh. (George Bernard Shaw)

Life is like a theatre, often very bad people occupy the best seats. (Euripides)

Life is really finest when it’s tragic. (Theodore Dreiser)

In truth, life revolves around a person's preoccupation with themselves. (Maxim Gorky)

Life creates order, but order does not create life. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer, and then you find there is nothing in it. (James Gibbons Huneker)

And only with the years you realize that it doesn’t matter what car you have, but that you have places to go and people waiting for you. (Lev Novozhenov)

Each person lives their own life and pays their own price for living it. (Oscar Wilde)

Without events there is no life itself. (Pierre Daninos)

Those who have been beaten will achieve more in their lives. Those who have tasted the bitterness of life appreciate sweetness. Those who have shed tears can laugh heartily. Those who have faced death know what it means to truly live. (Omar Khayyam)

Whoever owns the moment, owns life. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)

To love something more than life is to make life something more than it is. (Jean Rostand)

Love and money rule the world. (Friedrich Schiller*)

People of nature can be idle, people of education can be restless; the former enjoy life, the latter pursue it. (Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste)

A person bears full responsibility for their life, not only for their actions but also for their failures to act. (Irvin Yalom)

We only exist when we do not conform to scenarios. (Alexander Lobok)

The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. (Horace Walpole)

Our lives always reflect the outcome of our dominant thoughts. (Soren Kierkegaard)

Our lives are like trees in the forest that commingle their roots in the dark underground. (William James)

You can live on even if the poppy harvest fails. (Russian saying)

There is nothing permanent except change. (Heraclitus)

One person is a creator of their destiny, and another one is its creation. (Honore de Balzac)

The conditions of life might include error. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

The first hour that gave us life took away also an hour. (Seneca)

How many things can I do without? (Socrates)

Those at a very tender age see the entire life ahead of them, those at a very old age see the entire life behind them, and those who are between are so busy with life that they don’t see anything. (Ray Bradbury)

To be is to feel, for feelings shall prevail over reason. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

There is no happy life, there are only happy days. (Andre Theuriet)

So is it worth it to dream of an immaculate life in the world where everything is shaky like smoke and fragile, everything is changeable like wind and wave. (Pierre de Ronsard)

Whether the life events are good or bad depends a lot on how we perceive them. (Michel de Montaigne)

The circus artists will tell you that it is the hardest to juggle objects of uneven weight, when some are very light and others are very heavy. But after all, this is what you are doing your entire life. (Gilbert Cesbron)

In nasty moments of life I wish I had the function to “Restore previously saved version”. (Namdok)

Everything is possible except what is impossible, but it also sometimes happens. (Unknown author)

Life begins after forty for some people, for others it begins after one hundred millilitres. (Leonard Dzhevetsky)

Life can be split into two phases: first, there is no brain, then, there is no health. (Leonid Sukhorukov)

The life of every person could become a framework for an unparalleled and fascinating novel if it weren't for the same beginning, common plot, and trite ending. (Stas Yankovsky)

Life is short, but boredom makes it longer. No life is short enough for boredom to find its place. (Jules Renard)

Life is beautiful, you just need to choose the right antidepressants. (William Seward Burroughs)

Living on Earth, perhaps, is a little expensive, but you get a free annual cruise around the sun. (Ashleigh Brilliant)

Think to yourself that every day is your last one. (Horace)

When I was born, I was so surprised that I didn’t talk for a year and a half. (Gracie Allen)

The world gets better every day, then worse again in the evening. (Kin Hubbard)

One of the most difficult transitions to make is the transition from a good-looking life to a good one. (Leo Tolstoy)

To make the story of their own life, every person adds small legends. (Marcel Jouhandeau)

1.1.4. Downsides

“A life full of pleasures” does not mean “a life full of idleness.” (Thomas Fuller)

Most of all, I regret that impulsiveness has disappeared from my life. (Michael Jay Fox)

What a small limit the life of many people is fit to. (Pliny the Younger)

Life can be hated only because of apathy and laziness. (Leo Tolstoy)

Take each day separately and there will not be a single unfilled, put them together and you will be amazed to see how empty they are. (Tacitus)

We all want to live in a perfect world, but each of us waits others to make this world perfect. (Unknown author)

Appreciate even bitter days of life, for they are gone forever too. (Middle East saying)

A wicked life leads to a wicked death. (Moliere)

If you fill your ears with Walkman headphones and your eyes with soft soap of television, you may end up understanding nothing in life in a hundred years. (Leonid Kaganov)

A man had hardly been born, and the death already stands as a master above him. (Bhartrhari)

Life is a fountain of joy, but where the crowd gathers to drink, all wells are poisoned. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Life is a clownage. (Charlie Chaplin)

Life without a goal leads to personal degradation of an individual, as a rule. (Richard Byrd)

Life stops without a struggle for life. (Unknown author)

Does life pass by? Life passes, but death will not pass. (Alexander Petrovich-Syrov)

A person’s life takes place in the analysis of their past, in complaints about the present, and in fear of the future. (Antoine de Rivarol)

Tomorrow, tomorrow, always tomorrow – this is how passes us by. (Latin saying)

Filling life is not yet enriching it. (Unknown author)

Who managed to use life properly? Who has not lost half of their dreams in either conversations with fools or love in torment, or time wasting? (August von Platen-Hallermunde)

A light attitude towards life makes it difficult. (Emil Krotki)

People have not learned to respect themselves, and therefore life. (Heinrich Mann)

People do not know how to live. They are not taught this. (Coco Chanel)

People spend their whole lives to get what they apparently need for life. (Seneca)

The world is miserable only for a miserable person, the world is empty only for an empty person. (Ludwig Feuerbach)

The world is full of beautiful things, but it has become poor in a number of beautiful moments. (Friedrich Nietzsche*)

We are victims of the twenty-first century plague, though it is not the Black Death but the Gray Life. (Aldous Huxley*)

We always invent something to pretend that we live. (Samuel Beckett)

We are simply a representation of a habit. (Etienne Bonnot de Condillac)

A drug addict does not need to work hard for a long time, then to buy a ticket and fly somewhere to enjoy an ocean sunset. And exactly this is what destroys him, not chemicals. The meaning of life consists precisely in these movements on a way to the sunset. (Oleg Shesterikov)

Our life passes in running towards the things we do not have, and in regrets concerning the things we won’t have any more. (Jacques Roux)

Do not be afraid that your life may end: be afraid that it will never begin. (John Henry Newman)

The one who changes their place, but does not change their lifestyle and habits, will never improve their fate. (Francisco de Quevedo)

One of the laws of life says that as soon as one door closes, another one opens. But the whole trouble is that we look at the locked door and do not pay attention to the opened one. (Andre Gide)

Life passes while we put it on a back burner. (Cato the Younger)

While you are saying not the way you think, while you are listening not the way you believe in, and you do things you are not intended for, someone else lives instead of you during this time. (Han Xiangzi)

Contempt for life is an absurd feeling because ultimately it is all that we have. (Michel de Montaigne)

To go through the world and remain imperfect is the same as leaving the bath unwashed. (Ali-Shir Nava’i)

Emptiness can also fill life to the limit. (Ivan Ivanyuk)

The habit of luxury is the saddest thing that can be in life. (Charlie Chaplin)

Today I let the sun rise earlier than me. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)

The one who neglects their life does not value it. (Laozi)

A person has ruined their stomach, and they complain about lunch. The same thing happens to people who are unhappy with their life. (Leo Tolstoy)

It happens that we do not want to live, but this does not mean that we want to die. (Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)

You have to try doing everything in your life. By “everything” we usually mean gambling, drugs, debauchery, and much less often it will be nuclear physics or mountaineering. (Unknown author)

Things which are worse than death may happen in your life. Have you ever spent an evening in company of an insurance agent? (Woody Allen)

I cherished myself for something great throughout my life, and now I’ve got a massive heart attack. (Leonid Shebarshin)

Life without packaging weighed nothing. (Gennady Malkin)

Life always distracts our attention, and we don’t even have time to notice exactly from what. (Franz Kafka)

How easy it is to ruin a person’s life! A pebble in a boot, a cockroach in spaghetti, a woman’s laugh ... (Henry Louis Mencken)

I feel good in total but bad in particular. (Dragan Susic)

We begin to think about life and money when it comes to an end. (Emil Krotki)

There was something terrible with me tonight – nothing happened. (Phyllis Diller)

A session, a holiday break, a session, a holiday break until we finish our studies, and then work, work, work until we die. (Clive Staples Lewis)

1.1.5. Do not ignore

Save time: this is the fabric from which life is woven. (Samuel Richardson)

In life, you must strive to overtake not others, but yourself. (Maltbie Davenport Babcock)

In life must be a pause. Such pauses when nothing happens. When you just sit and look at the World, and the World is watching. (Karl Renz)

Two goals should be set in life. The first goal is the realization of what you are striving for. The second goal is the ability to rejoice at what has been achieved. Only the wisest representatives of humanity are capable of achieving the second goal. (Logan Pearsall Smith)

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. (William James)

Take back responsibility for your own life. (Jorge Bucay)

Everything is unsteady in life. If everything goes well, enjoy it, for it will not last forever. If everything goes bad, don’t worry, it won’t last too long. (Unknown author)

You cannot do anything to change the length of your life, but you can do something to change its width and depth. (Archimedes)

The main thing is to do everything with pleasure, it graces your life significantly. (Lev Landau)

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable. (Storm Jameson)

If there is no pleasure in life, then there should be at least some sense. (Diogenes)

If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich. (Epicurus)

If you want to make life smiling for you, give it your good mood first. (Baruch Spinoza)

You live only once. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Live and let live. (Gavrila Derzhavin)

Live every day the way you live your whole life just for this day. (Vasily Rozanov)

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. (Mahatma Gandhi)

Life is a huge supermarket. We can put everything we want in our shopping cart, but we should remember that the checkout is in front, which means we’d have to pay. (Unknown author)

Life is short. And you should be able to stop watching a bad movie. Stop reading a bad book. Dump a bad person. (Mikhail Zhvanetsky)

Life should have misfortunes so that it does not turn sour. (Maxim Gorky)

Life requires movement. (Aristotle)

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The art of living: satisfy hunger while maintaining your appetite. (Anita Daniel)

Every morning, upon waking, you should say, “I see, I hear, I move and I am not in pain. Thank you! Life is lovely.” (Jules Renard)

When a person is uncomfortable to lie on one side – he rolls over to the other, and when he is uncomfortable to live – he only complains. So make an effort: roll over! (Maxim Gorky)

Whoever understands life is in no hurry. (Matsuo Basho)

Whoever wants bliss in this world, let him be engaged in trade; whoever wants bliss in the other world, let him seek abstinence and piety. Whoever wants bliss in both worlds, let him concentrate on learning and seeking knowledge in addition to the above. (Quran)

Catch a moment! (Horace)

You have to look at a day like at a little life. (Maxim Gorky)

We must live so that every day we live would seem new. (Sergey Konenkov)

We should put our lives in such conditions that labor is necessary. Without labor, there cannot be a pure and joyful life. (Anton Chekhov)

Start living your life right now the way you want to see it at the end. (Marcus Aurelius)

Do not forget that everything you possess in this world will be in hands of another person after the day you die. But what you are is yours forever. (Henry Miller)

Do not envy the one who is strong and rich, after dawn there always comes a sunset. With this short life, equal to a breath, treat yourself with the rental you have. (Omar Khayyam)

Changes provide the best spice for life. (Christopher Isherwood)

The first and most important thing in life is to control yourself. (Wilhelm von Humboldt)

The most valuable thing life taught me is to regret about nothing. (William Somerset Maugham)

Follow your way and let people say anything they want. (Dante Alighieri)

Look at every morning dawn as at the beginning of your life, and at every sunset look as at the end of it. May each of these short lives be marked by some good deed, some kind of victory over oneself or acquired knowledge. (John Ruskin)

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. (Oscar Wilde)

Strive for a goal, but do not forget to live today. (Eero Voutilainen)

Dance like nobody’s watching. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Sing like nobody’s listening. Live like it’s heaven on earth. (Mark Twain)

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself. (Joseph Campbell)

Respect the current hour and day. Respect every single minute, for it will pass and never happen again ... (Janusz Korczak)

So that life does not seem unbearable, you need to accustom yourself to two things: the wounds that time inflicts, and the injustices that people repair. (Nicolas de Chamfort)

To go your own way in the world, it is useful give yourself a lot of latitude for forethought and indulgence: the first will protect us from sorrows and losses, the second, from disputes and quarrels.. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

A sense of humor is a great thing. Going through life without a sense of humor is just as ridiculous as riding in a wagon without springs. (Henry Ward Beecher)

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day. (George Bernard Shaw)

Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry. (Mark Twain)

If it seems to you that you need to change something in this life, then it does not seem to you. (Rinat Valiullin)

The art of living is living in spite of the absence of life. (Arkady Davidowitz)

Live as if this day is the last one, and one day it will happen. And you will be fully armed. (George Carlin)

Live, love, enjoy. After all, you never know when you … (Unknown author)

Surely there is a place where we will live better, but so far it is here. (German saying*)

Do not take everything from life – why do you need so much trouble?! (Victor Sumbatov)

Don’t go to sleep, so many people die there. (Mark Twain)

It is good if your clothes have no holes. And it’s not a sin to think of daily bread. And all the rest is not necessary at all – life is more valuable than all the wealth and honours. (Omar Khayyam)

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. (Elbert Hubbard)

1.2.1. Time

An insane takes comfort in the past, an idiot in the future, an intelligent in the present. (Indian saying)

The future is something towards which each of us rushes at a speed of 60 minutes per hour. (Clive Staples Lewis)

The future always seems better than the present. (Polybius)

Time is a precious gift given to us to be smarter, better and more mature. (Thomas Mann)

The happier time, the quicker it passes. (Pliny the Younger)

Time loves nobody, and it does not hate anyone, time is not indifferent to anyone – it carries everyone away. (Indian saying)

Time approaches slowly and leaves quickly. (Vladislav Gzheschik)

Yesterday is a history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift! (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Year is a horse that races at a gallop, but in small steps. (Adrien Decourcelle)

The past day is always better than the present. (Ovid)

If it were possible to see into the future just as we know the past, then the day of death would seem as close as our past, for example, as close as our childhood. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

Even the longest day ends quickly. (Pliny the Younger)

Dreams and memories, the future and the past, these are only decorations for the present. (Ilya Shevelev)

Minutes are long, but years are fleeting. (Henri-Frederic Amiel)

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past. (Thomas Carlyle)

The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future. (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz)

Unexpectedness is a necessary part of life, for if we could know the future for sure, it would become the past. (Alan Watts)

There is no past or future; everything is happening in the eternal present. (James Joyce)

There have never been those good old days. (Unknown author)

The past is an object of our memory, and the future is an object of our expectations. (Unknown author)

The past kept in mind is a part of the present. (Tadeusz Kotarbinski)

If there is a future, it is easy to break up with the past. (Unknown author)

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

The future has got several names. The impossibility is the name of the future for a weak-willed person. The unknown is for a faint-hearted. The ideal is for a wise. (Victor Hugo)

A smiling futurity looks like a picturesque landscape: all the charm disappears when penetrating into it. (Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste)

Only the present belongs to a human, neither the past nor the future: the past is gone, and nobody knows whether the future will come. (Claudius Aelianus)

I was afraid of wasting my time until I realized that life is what’s happening right now. Everything else is not the time. The time is right now. (Marlon Brando)

Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted. (John Lennon)

We all live on the account of the future. Not surprisingly, it expects bankruptcy. (Christian Friedrich Hebbel)

If all the past was present, and the present continued to exist side by side with the future, then who would be able to recognize where the causes and where the consequences are. (Kozma Prutkov)

You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony. (John Barrymore)

The past will not return. At least return the faith in future! (Boris Krutier)

The most surprising thing in future is a thought that our time will be called the good old days. (John Steinbeck)

Three in the afternoon is too early or too late for anything. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

I was, I am, I will be is a problem of grammar, but not of existence. (Emil Cioran)

1.2.2. About bad times

The future abducts our present, and dreaming steals reality. (Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste)

The future disturbs us, and the past holds us. That is why the present escapes from us. (Gustave Flaubert)

The memory of lost always seems higher than what we can expect from the future. (Stendhal)

Time is money, but unlike money lost time is never regained. (English saying)

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. (William Penn)

You say that time goes by. You are passing by, madmen. (Talmud)

If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one. (John Galsworthy)

Was there anyone ever who was able to value the time? (Seneca)

Most people live mainly in the present, people like that are thoughtless; others live in the future, they are fearful and disturbed. It is rare for people to comply with measure. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

Nobody gives away property of their own accord, but everyone willingly shares time with their fellow beings. Although, prudence is useful and worthy of praise with regard only to the latter. (Michel de Montaigne)

Until the past has not passed, there will be no future. (Arkady Davidowitz)

The biggest waste is the waste of time. (Theophrastus)

The one who looks back often does not deserve their future. (Oscar Wilde)

The humankind lives for the future. The instruments are always tuned, but the beginning of the concert is not foreseen. (Ludwig Borne)

The future is not what it used to be. (Paul Valery)

If you postpone everything till tomorrow, you may not live to see it. (Unknown author)

To know the past is quite unpleasant, to know the future in addition would be unbearable. (William Somerset Maugham)

Between the murky past and the promising future, our gloomy present flows. (Alexander Mikheev)

Only think about tomorrow, and this day is already the day before yesterday. (Przekroj)

1.2.3. Recommendations on time

Keep track of every day, bear in mind every minute wasted! Time is the only thing where stinginess is praiseworthy. (Thomas Mann)

Think of the past as of a dream ... And it will stop bothering you. (Vitaly Gibert)

If a caterpillar held onto the past, it would never become a butterfly. (Unknown author)

If you want to change the world, start with yourself. (Mahatma Gandhi)

Yoga is the effort to experience one’s divinity personally, and then to hold on to that experience forever. (Elizabeth Gilbert)

Who is the most important person, what is the most important time? The most important person is the one with whom you are speaking at the moment, the most important time is the one in which you live now. (Leo Tolstoy)

Do not be the slave of your own past. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (New Testament, Gospel of Matthew)

Do not blight the present cause of frustrated hopes in the past or constant concerns for the future. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. (Buddha)

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Do not squander time. That is the stuff life is made of. (Margaret Mitchell)

The present is the only reality and the only certainty. Thus, it should be treated carefully and with conscious enjoyment every single minute free from troubles and pain. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

Put your head down in front of the past, roll up your sleeves in front of the future. (Henry Louis Mencken)

The past is already beyond our control, but the future depends on us. (Pyotr Chaadayev)

The past should be used as a flame for lightning the future. (Andocides)

Utilize the present, so you don’t end up blaming yourself in your old age for a youth lived in vain. (Giovanni Boccaccio)

Know the value of today, although it is little. Yesterday has passed, but tomorrow has not come yet. (Ibn Yamin)

Life is beautiful! ... If you do not think of the past and do not think of the future. (Unknown author)

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. (Unknown author)

What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer – the Future so much brighter? (Charlotte Brontë)

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