To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
Audrey Hepburn

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
Emily Dickinson

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
Leo Buscaglia

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
Leo Buscaglia

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
Voltaire

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
Voltaire

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
Voltaire

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
Leo Tolstoy

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Leo Tolstoy

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Steve Jobs

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Saint Augustine

I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family.
Walter Cronkite

The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him.
Rita Rudner

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
Thomas Merton

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
Thomas Merton