Learn Through Quotations

“This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is a flash of lightning in the sky. Rushing by,like a torrent down a steep mountain.”

“For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.”

“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”

“The middle years of childhood arrive just as your own are getting uncomfortably close.”

“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.”

“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.”

“Yesterday is but a vision, and tomorrow is only a dream. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a dream of hope.”

“Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.”

“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.”

“Childhood is a short season.”

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

“Time ripens all things. No man's born wise.”

“There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.”

“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”

“Envy is a waste of time.”

“Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.”

“The passing day is prey to error. Time commands success and achievement.”

“Failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.”

“Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.”

“Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we'd find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.”

“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”

“Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.”

“Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.”