“Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words ‘for ever.’ But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you…”— Marian Keyes, brainyquote.com
“I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.”— Michael Cunningham, amazon.com
“Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that’s the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.”— Henning Mankell, amazon.com
“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.”— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com
“To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com
“It seems the more time and distance you put between us, the larger you grow in my heart.”— Beau Taplin, wnq-writers.com
“Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every…”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”— Thomas Paine, amazon.com
“When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.”— Rick Warren, amazon.com
“We know where we're going But we don't know where we've been And we know what we're knowing But we can't say what we've seen And we're not little children And we know what we want And the future is certain Give us time to work it out.”— David Byrne, open.spotify.com
“We’ll pray to all the wrong decisions. This time, you’ll show all you can be. Grab your weapons now; we’ll run against the crowd and changing history”— Andy Biersack, open.spotify.com
“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, goodreads.com
“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”— John Keats, amazon.com
“Well is it said that neither love nor power Admit a rival, even for an hour.”— Geoffrey Chaucer, amazon.com