Don’t worry too much about making money. It won’t change the way you live. Time spent earning enough money is time reasonably well spent. Time earning an excess of money far beyond that required to meet one’s needs, however, is time wasted.
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No person hands out their money to passersby, but to how many do each of us hand out our lives! We’re tightfisted with property and money, yet think too little of wasting time, the one thing about which we should all be the toughest misers.
— Seneca
Carl Sagan once said that human beings are like butterflies who flutter for a day, and think it is forever…
… Compared to the life span of the universe, our lives begin and end in a single day.
I have come to understand it this way.
The stars aren’t just balls of gas burning billions of miles away. They are also a reminder of the brief time we share on this planet.
… time and distance are the heart’s natural enemies.
Everyone we meet, everyone we love, how we got here, what path we choose, and who we choose to remember, they are all a part of our story.
But we cannot allow the story to be written for us. Because we don’t have forever.Sometimes all we have is a single day.”
From Movie “The Sun is also a Star” at 1 hour 25 minute
There is only one time that is important: NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. To create a meaningful life, we need to take action. And the power to act exists only in this moment. We can take action only here & now
— Leo Tolstoy
It’s always time we run out of…
We meant to save for our retirement… We meant to stop eating so much… We meant to spend more time with our parents when they were still alive, or more time with our children when they were still little.
But we didn’t have enough time. We ran out of it.
It’s always time, not money. The richest person in the world runs out of time, just like we do.
We meant to say something to someone we cared about… but time got away from us.
We would have… we should have… we could have… But each time, we ran out of time.
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Time is what gets us all. We run out of it. Everyone is running out of time. And it can’t be stretched. It can’t be printed. It can’t be saved up, stitched up, or revved up.
It waits for nobody and no thing. And all we are left with are regrets.
We wish we had used our time better. We wish we had begun saving for our retirement earlier. We wish we had taken the time to learn Spanish or how to play the piano…”
— Bill Bonner
Wealth not in material but spiritual terms…
— Julia Guth
…there’s more to a genuine sense of wealth than just working, saving, and investing. For one thing, we have to define what “being rich” actually means to us. Then, no matter how much financial success we enjoy, we have to learn how to spend not just our money but also our two most precious commodities: our time and attention.”
