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There is only one time
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you are happy or angry, time passes either way. You decide how to spend you life.
/phil
Appreciate every single moment
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
Dr. Seuss
/phil
About time
To realize the value of one year, ask a student who failed a grade.
To realize the value of one month, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby.
To realize the value of one week, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the value of one day, ask the person who was born on February 29th.
To realize the value of one hour, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
To realize the value of one minute, ask a person who missed the train.
To realize the value of one second, ask a person who just avoided an accident.
To realize the value of one millisecond, ask the person who won a silver medal in the Olympics.
Time is extremely relative, it’s perception extremely subjective. Try to remember that.
/phil
Enjoy your time
No such thing as spare time,
no such thing as free time,
no such thing as down time.
All you got is life time. Go!
Henry Rollins.
There is this concept of work and spare time that I really oppose: Work time is not supposed to be fun, it is not supposed to brighten your day, it is work. You do it in order to gain money wich will increase the quality of your highly-valued spare time.
This concept of time is extremely strange because it gives you the illusion that suffering at certain points in life will make other parts inevitably better. I ask: Why not have fun all the time? We have 24 hours a day, why don’t we just enjoy our waking hours no matter what we are doing?
To me the term work merely means I get paid to do it, no matter what it is. Therefore work is not something negative, but something awesome. See: Normally I do what I like. At work I do what I like and on top of having fun in the moment I get paid for it. Isn’t that nice? Why yes, of course it is!
You have 24 hours a day, enjoy them! Do not waste your time doing stuff you don’t like, dreaming about better times.
/phil
The Marmelade Jar and two cans of beer
When things in your lives seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the marmelade jar and the 2 cans of beer.
A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty marmelade jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.
The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.
The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with an unanimous “yes.”
The professor then produced two cans of beer from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed.
“Now,” said the professor as the laughter subsided, “I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things–your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions–and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.
The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your car.
The sand is everything else–the small stuff. “If you put the sand into the jar first,” he continued, “there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are important to you.
“Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your spouse out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal. Take care of the golf balls first–the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.”
One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the beer represented. The professor smiled. “I’m glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there’s always room for one or two cans of beer with a friend.”
/phil
Make use of your time
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
But also know this: Time enjoyed wasting is not wasted. Not everything that seems useless is wasted time as long as you have fun doing it.
/phil
“I don’t have time”
Important point, I stress this often and for a good reason:
You will never find time for anything. If you want the time, you must make it.
Charles Buxton
You decide what you have time for by setting your priorities. You have 24 hours a day just like everyone else.You have the same amount of time like Obama, Schwarzenegger or Jobs. And now you say you don’t have time for something?
Look at what they did with their time!
You say you don’t have time when you a) have other priorities or b) feel that the amount of time you invest ist already enough. Both can be valid and good reasons and saying “I have not time for that” is not necessarily a bad thing as long as you keep in mind why you say it.
There is no outer force that determines wether you have time or not. You decide about your time schedule!
/phil
About wasting time
He who knows most grieves most for wasted time.
Dante
/phil
Time will pass anyway
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
Earl Nightingale
/robin
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