The time to invest is when there’s blood running in the streets.
The biggest obstacle to achievement has been the brevity of the human lifespan. It’s prevented us from working on projects that require centuries, maybe even millennia, to see through.
That’s really all we want, isn’t it? More time with the people we love.
Sometimes it takes a long time to understand who’s the real source of our harm.
Seneca says the problem with this life is not that it’s short. It’s that we waste an awful lot of it dicking about.
Rich white men don’t do time, they buy it.
Photographs are so ironically impermanent. They capture one moment in time to perfection. A painting can capture eternity.
People think time is fragile. Precious. Beautiful. Sand in an hourglass, all that. But it’s not. Time is savage. It always wins.
People are fragile. They need time to adapt. They accept change gradually.
One thing I know how to manage is time.
No one gets the privilege of being themselves all the time.
Never wish for more time. The gods might hear you and grant that wish.