Time

"I never think that I am the one who must see to it that cherries grow on stalks"

"Men were foolish and were made only so that they should die, while mountains and rivers went on for ever and did not notice the passing of time."

"I would describe the distinction between city and landscape like this: cities tend to excite and agitate me; they make me feel big or small, self-confident, proud, curious, excited, tense, annoyed... or they intimidate me. But the landscape, if I give it the chance, offers me freedom and serenity. Nature has a different sense of time. Time is big in the landscape while in the city it is condensed, just like the city's space."

"No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work."

"During my time in high altitude astronomy, I routinely witnessed workers breathing medical oxygen, industrial carbon dioxide, nitrogen and helium gas as part of their daily work routine."

"It’s not possible to move from one activity to the next at blinding speed and be reflective at the same time. The more complex and demanding the work we do, the wider, deeper and longer the perspective we require to do it well. It’s almost impossible to do that when we create no white space in our lives."

"There is always more we can do in ministry, but God is not asking 'Can you do more'. He is asking 'Do you love me' Some of those extras are not always as vital as we think them to be."

"For the present time, just do your job well"

"The hour is only long thus, if you've waited."

"He had not been tossed aside by time, but lost in it."

"For Japanese people before 1868, Europeans were little more than curious beasts, strange and incomprehensible. Then, after the Meiji Restoration, everything changed. Along with European science and technology, European art flooded into Japan, all forms of it representing themselves as the universal—and most advanced—model. The same was true of novels. The Japanese, with characteristic diligence, began to read masterpieces of European literature, first in the original and then in translation. And such is the power of literature that through the act of reading, little by little the Japanese came to live the lives of Europeans as if they were their own. They began to live the ambitions of Julien Sorel, the happiness of Jane Eyre, the sufferings of young Werther, and the despair of Anna Karenina as if they were their own. They thus began living a new temporality—that which flows in the West, dictated by the Gregorian calendar, marked by major historical events in the West. And by so doing, they eventually joined what the Europeans called "humanity."

"Awareness of our lost youth and charged with foreknowledge of our fate is terribly burdensome. Nonetheless, awareness of inexorable forward march of time and comprehension of our transience is a key component of our humanness. Awareness of time serves as a constant jab in our flank. It shapes our sense of being and toys with our mental equilibrium."

"The most rewarding times are those spent in changing lives for the sake of humanity."

"All those minds that are interested in finding out the truth communicate with each other across the distances of space and time. I, too, was taking part in the effort which humanity makes to know."

"Anybody that does not value time does not value life."

"Each second of every time has its own story and history to be filed."

"Respect is reverence out of love, Fear is reverence out of hate. Choose Wisely"

"Fear is the most prodigious enemy of our soul"

"Stop explaining to others, people will only understand from their level of discernment."

"We travel to ancient times by reading history books."