Fancy Schmancy Quotes About Time

Personally, I love quotes. Quotes hold so much meaning in so few words. Last year I was searching for a cool quote to put on a giant clock. I wasn't too excited about the "love at home" and "Families are Forever" sayings (maybe because I'm single). I wanted something different and something that meant more to me. I came up with these two:

Time discovers truth.
-Seneca

Life, if lived well, is long enough.
-Seneca

Seneca, a Roman philosopher, had quotes that really touched me and contained mountains of truth in his sayings. If you live your life well, it doesn't matter how long or short it is. In the process of time, all truths will be revealed. We just have to be patient.

I found a lot more quotes about time and life that I liked on the internet. Here's the list of quotes that didn't make the cut:

We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves.”

-Alice Bloch

You may delay, but time will not.

-Benjamin Franklin

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.”

Leonard Bernstein quotes (American Conductor, Composer and Pianist. 1918-1990

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

Jef Raskin, interviewed in Doctor Dobb's Journal

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

Bill Watterson (1958 - ), cartoonist, "Calvin and Hobbes"

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.”

Henry Van Dyke quotes (American short-story Writer, Poet and Essayist, 1852-1933

The time is always right to do what is right.”

--Martin Luther King Jr.

Time heals what reason cannot.

--Seneca

“The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.”

--Seneca

“He is most powerful who has power over himself”

--Seneca

Many things have fallen only to rise higher.

Seneca

No one can wear a mask for very long.

Seneca

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed

through life trying to save.

Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.

Unknown

There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.

Doctor Who

Arguing with the World

Lately, I’ve been thinking that it would be really cool to go to film school. I love movies, and would love to create them. But I worry that when in a film class, I will be subjected to material that I would never watch by choice. Material that is far below my standards and that will destroy my efforts to stay clean. I’ve wondered how I would explain my position to my professors, what words I would use to beg them to let me watch something else. This is an imagined conversation with a professor who can’t understand why I don’t want to watch a movie with sex scenes or that has demeaning sexual innuendo:
Sir, in my religion we are taught that physical intimacy between husband and wife is incredibly sacred. It is God’s way of gifting us with his own power of creation. Think of it! We believe that God created the heavens and the earth and he has given us that same power in our children. The power to give life, and to raise his sons and daughters as righteous members of his kingdom.
Because creation is such a powerful gift, God has commanded that we use it responsibly and with great care. In my religion, we are taught that physical intimacy must only happen between two people bonded as husband and wife. We are to practice complete abstinence before marriage, and complete fidelity afterwards.
If the power to give life is misused, it will have terrible consequences and is a mockery of God’s gift.
Sir, considering all these things I have been taught, how can I go and watch a sitcom where sex is treated like a cheap rag, something to be thrown around to satisfy desires, simply a way to get what you want. It astonishes me how sex is now as cheap as a penny, almost worthless. How can I treat physical intimacy as a sacred thing when the whole world screams at me to use it for personal gain and self indulgence?
No. I will not stand for this. I am a child of God, with a divine destiny and a divine heritage. God has seen fit to give me the gift of life and the gift of a physical body. I am precious in his sight, and I will treat myself as such. My body is not something to be thrown around to satisfy vile pleasures. I am more than that, a precious daughter who has a right to the full blessings of heaven if I but follow God’s commandments. I respect his will and his love by promising to use his gifts correctly.
So you tell me—how can I possibly watch something so demeaning to my divine identity? Something that tells me I am worth no more than my carnal pleasures, that I am nothing more than an animal. How can I watch Television shows that constantly tell me that bodies are cheap, that my life is nothing more than a quest to satisfy my sensual desires?
I say NO. I am more than that. I am of noble birth, and I refuse to fill my head with such despicable lies. I promise to watch worthy, uplifting entertainment that reminds me who I am, that encourages me to be good, that tells me I am worth something.
No sir, I will not watch such things.