Appreciating Time Quotes

From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

Everyone's dying. A little, every day. Make it count.

Life isn't what you think it is. It's like water, and the young let it trickle away between their fingers without even noticing. Cup your hands, keep it safe. Life eventually becomes something else, something hard, something simple, something you can hold in your hand and nibble on contentedly as you sit in the sun.

What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. Theyare to be happy in: Where can we live but days?

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.

I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. It is unstealable. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.

Everything matters. Time is precious.

Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.

Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey.

Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?

As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.

It seems to me so shocking to see the precious hours of a man's life - the priceless moments that will never come back to him again - being wasted in a mere brutish sleep.

There are dreams of love, life, and adventure in all of us. But we are also sadly filled with reasons why we shouldn't try. These reasons seem to protect us, but in truth they imprison us. They hold life at a distance. Life will be over sooner than we think. If we have bikes to ride and people to love, now is the time.

Time did not mean anything to those who had too much of it, but it was even more precious once it was limited.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them.

I don't mind aging - I'm glad to be aging. I'll never die young.