Lost time is never found again.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1748
Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.
—John Lubbock, 1895
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And – which is more - you’ll be a Man, my son!
—Rudyard Kipling, 1896
One should count each day a separate life.
—Seneca, *65 AD
Thing of today, accomplished today.
—Chinese proverb
Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
—Albert Camus, 1957
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day’s work absorb your entire
energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
—William Osler, 1899
Happy is the man who can recognize in the work of to-day a connected portion of the work
of life and an embodiment of the work of eternity.
—James Clerk Maxwell, 1854
Life itself is brief, and that is what charges each day with such ridiculous beauty.
—Garrison Keillor, 1990
If a man has a great deal to put into them, a day will have a hundred pockets.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take,
all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
—John Burroughs, 1913
I arise in the morning torn by a desire to improve (or save) the world, and a desire to enjoy
(or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
—E. B. White, 1969
The intellect of man is forced to choose
Perfection of the life, or of the work.
—William Butler Yeats, 1933
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—Benjamin Franklin, 1748
Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.
—John Lubbock, 1895
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And – which is more - you’ll be a Man, my son!
—Rudyard Kipling, 1896
One should count each day a separate life.
—Seneca, *65 AD
Thing of today, accomplished today.
—Chinese proverb
Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
—Albert Camus, 1957
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day’s work absorb your entire
energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
—William Osler, 1899
Happy is the man who can recognize in the work of to-day a connected portion of the work
of life and an embodiment of the work of eternity.
—James Clerk Maxwell, 1854
Life itself is brief, and that is what charges each day with such ridiculous beauty.
—Garrison Keillor, 1990
If a man has a great deal to put into them, a day will have a hundred pockets.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take,
all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
—John Burroughs, 1913
I arise in the morning torn by a desire to improve (or save) the world, and a desire to enjoy
(or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
—E. B. White, 1969
The intellect of man is forced to choose
Perfection of the life, or of the work.
—William Butler Yeats, 1933
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