#passageoftime — Public Fediverse posts

A quotation from Terence

DEMEA: No one has ever plotted out his life’s plan so successfully that he never faces
   New challenges and discoveries brought about by circumstances, the passing of time,
   Or experience itself. Inevitably, you discover you don’t know what you thought you did,
   And the principles we first formed don’t hold up in the face of everyday practice.
 
[Nunquam ita quisquam bene subducta ratione ad vitam fuit
Quia res, Ætas usus semper aliquid apportet novi
Aliquid moneat, ut illa, quæ te scire credas, nescias
Et, quæ tibi putaris prima, in experiundo ut repudies.]

Terence (186?-159 BC) African-Roman dramatist [Publius Terentius Afer]
Adelphoe [Adelphoi; Adelphi; The Brothers], Act 5, sc. 4, l. 855ff (160 BC) [tr. Christenson (2010), Sc. 22]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/terence/85152/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terence #challenge #challenges #change #changeofmind #circumstance #conduct #control #experience #growingup #ignorance #illumination #maturity #passageoftime #presuppositions #principles #reallife #realitycheck #theories #theory

A quotation from James Howell

Old wine, and old friend, and old gold are beloved in all places.
 
[Vin vieux, amy vieux, Y or vieux sont amez en touts lieux.]

James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian, writer, aphorist
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “Proverbs in French” (1659)
[compiler]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/howell-james/85085/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #proverb #age #books #comfort #custom #enjoyment #familiarity #friend #maturity #money #needs #passageoftime #provisions #supplies #tradition #wine

A quotation from James Howell

Old wine, and old friend, and old gold are beloved in all places.
 
[Vin vieux, amy vieux, Y or vieux sont amez en touts lieux.]

James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian, writer, aphorist
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “Proverbs in French” (1659)
[compiler]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/howell-james/85085/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #proverb #age #books #comfort #custom #enjoyment #familiarity #friend #maturity #money #needs #passageoftime #provisions #supplies #tradition #wine

A quotation from Shakespeare

VIOLA: O Time, thou must untangle this, not I;
   It is too hard a knot for me t’ untie.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Twelfth Night, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 40ff (2.2.40-41) (1601)

More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #twelfthnight #complexity #conundrum #passageoftime #problem #puzzle #tangle #time #untangle

A quotation from Shakespeare

VIOLA: O Time, thou must untangle this, not I;
   It is too hard a knot for me t’ untie.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Twelfth Night, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 40ff (2.2.40-41) (1601)

More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #twelfthnight #complexity #conundrum #passageoftime #problem #puzzle #tangle #time #untangle

✮ A Semblance of Life ✮

Subscribe to keep reading

Become a paid subscriber to get access to the rest of this post and other exclusive content.

✮ A Semblance of Life ✮

Subscribe to keep reading

Become a paid subscriber to get access to the rest of this post and other exclusive content.

✮ A Butterfly’s Twilight Song ✮

Subscribe to keep reading

Become a paid subscriber to get access to the rest of this post and other exclusive content.

✮ A Butterfly’s Twilight Song ✮

Subscribe to keep reading

Become a paid subscriber to get access to the rest of this post and other exclusive content.

✮ Blinker ✮

We spend so much time blinking and looking away,
we blink so much that we don’t realize our fuse is alight.
A turn of the dial,
into another scene,
never rooted in the moment,
as transient as everything mortal.
We blink, to erase the unpleasant,
we blink, to jump forward,
coil our bodies around rest,
wrap paychecks inside our hands,
so, we can blink a little more.
We skip and jump out of the day,
when tomorrow is worse than today,
we blink it away,
as if we have unlimited blinks,
and soon enough we’ll hit a wall
and wish we could have kept our eyes open
more frequently.

Here today; gone tomorrow, never take anything for granted.

When complaining about long walks, someone is dreaming of having such luxury. Walks that people take for granted mean everything to someone else who is bound by a condition that prevents them from doing so. They could be bedridden; they could be hiding in fear in a war zone; they could be impeded by physical conditions that limit them.

You complain about tidying up. It’s because you have a home. You stress out over traffic. It’s because you have a car. You can’t deal with the noise. You have a family. Someone out there wants what you have but can only dream of it.

When frowning in dissatisfaction over a prepared meal, think about that person who took time and poured every ounce of their heart, hoping to bring you happiness. Think.

Be grateful that you are in school; not everyone is afforded such an opportunity. Not as a promise to secure a job, but to learn. Bitterness often comes from discounting what people already have. Contentment, as they say, is the key to happiness. Dream, but be forgiving. If it’s yours, it will come to fruition. If not, steady your heart and live with what you have.

Never neglect people or things that add, give, and bring value to your life. Blessed are those who can’t count how many people they love with their fingers. If you do, you’re already rich. Hurray! You will have someone to turn to.

At the end of the day, when all that you take for granted is gone, what will be left of you?

Copyright © Erwinism. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations used in critical reviews or scholarly work. This work is protected under international copyright laws. Unauthorized use or reproduction of this material is strictly prohibited and may result in legal action.

Live it Up!

✮ Blinker ✮

We spend so much time blinking and looking away,
we blink so much that we don’t realize our fuse is alight.
A turn of the dial,
into another scene,
never rooted in the moment,
as transient as everything mortal.
We blink, to erase the unpleasant,
we blink, to jump forward,
coil our bodies around rest,
wrap paychecks inside our hands,
so, we can blink a little more.
We skip and jump out of the day,
when tomorrow is worse than today,
we blink it away,
as if we have unlimited blinks,
and soon enough we’ll hit a wall
and wish we could have kept our eyes open
more frequently.

Here today; gone tomorrow, never take anything for granted.

When complaining about long walks, someone is dreaming of having such luxury. Walks that people take for granted mean everything to someone else who is bound by a condition that prevents them from doing so. They could be bedridden; they could be hiding in fear in a war zone; they could be impeded by physical conditions that limit them.

You complain about tidying up. It’s because you have a home. You stress out over traffic. It’s because you have a car. You can’t deal with the noise. You have a family. Someone out there wants what you have but can only dream of it.

When frowning in dissatisfaction over a prepared meal, think about that person who took time and poured every ounce of their heart, hoping to bring you happiness. Think.

Be grateful that you are in school; not everyone is afforded such an opportunity. Not as a promise to secure a job, but to learn. Bitterness often comes from discounting what people already have. Contentment, as they say, is the key to happiness. Dream, but be forgiving. If it’s yours, it will come to fruition. If not, steady your heart and live with what you have.

Never neglect people or things that add, give, and bring value to your life. Blessed are those who can’t count how many people they love with their fingers. If you do, you’re already rich. Hurray! You will have someone to turn to.

At the end of the day, when all that you take for granted is gone, what will be left of you?

Copyright © Erwinism. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations used in critical reviews or scholarly work. This work is protected under international copyright laws. Unauthorized use or reproduction of this material is strictly prohibited and may result in legal action.

Live it Up!

A quotation from James Howell

Time and Tyde stayes for no man.

James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
[compiler]

More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/84759/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #proverb #passageoftime #tide #time #timemarcheson

A quotation from Carlyle

So here hath been dawning
Another blue Day:
Think wilt thou let it
Slip useless away.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Poem (1837-08), “Today,” st. 1

More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/84633…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #carpediem #creation #dawn #idleness #indolence #liveinthepresent #opportunity #passageoftime #present #seizetheday #sloth #today

Neil deGrasse Tyson explains why time accelerates as we get older and how to slow it down

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/neil-degrasse-tyson-is-time-speeding-up-ex1/

Neil deGrasse Tyson explains why time accelerates as we get older and how to slow it down

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/neil-degrasse-tyson-is-time-speeding-up-ex1/

A quotation from Franklin

Dost thou love Life? then do not squander Time; for that’s the Stuff Life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1746 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/15…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklin #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #benjaminfranklinquote #poorrichard #poorrichardsalmanac #passageoftime #timemarcheson #life #living #loveoflife #sloth #time #wasteoftime #wastingtime

A quotation from Kit Marlowe

FAUSTUS. Ah, Faustus,
   Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,
   And then thou must be damn’d perpetually!
   Stand still, you ever-moving Spheres of Heaven,
   That time may cease, and midnight never come;
   Fair Nature’s eye, rise, rise again, and make
   Perpetual day; or let this hour be but
   A year, a month, a week, a natural day,
   That Faustus may repent and save his soul!

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 5, sc. 2 (sc. 14), l. 1451ff (1594; 1604 “A” text)

More about this quote: wist.info/marlowe-christopher/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #kitmarlowe #christophermarlowe #countdown #damnation #delay #fear #outoftime #passageoftime #pause #postponement

A quotation from Bill Watterson

CALVIN: There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1988-08-28)

More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/82791…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #brevity #enjoyment #passageoftime #play #playing #sloth #summer #time #vacation #relaxation

A quotation from Bill Watterson

CALVIN: There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1988-08-28)

More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/82791…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #brevity #enjoyment #passageoftime #play #playing #sloth #summer #time #vacation #relaxation

A quotation from Kurt Vonnegut

The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) American novelist, journalist
Slaughterhouse-Five, ch. 2 (1969)

More about this quote: wist.info/vonnegut-kurt-jr/557…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #vonnegut #kurtvonnegut #kurtvonnegutjr #slaughterhousefive #death #lifespan #passageoftime #past #perspective #present #simultaneity #time

A quotation from Thoreau

All streams are but tributary to the ocean, which itself does not stream, and the shores are unchanged but in longer periods than man can measure. Go where we will, we discover infinite change in particulars only, not in generals.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
A Week on the Concord and Marrimack Rivers, “Monday” (1849)

More about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoroeau #henrydavidthoreau #change #details #era #generalities #macro #micro #particular #passageoftime #perspective #scale #time

A quotation from Douglas Adams

MARVIN: The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn’t enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.

Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, “Fit the 5th” (BBC Radio) (1978-04-05)

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/35056/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #marvintheparanoidandroid #badtimes #complaint #depression #hyperbole #marchoftime #passageoftime #pessimism #waiting #worst

A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

Tell yourself, when you feel exasperated and out of all patience, that this mortal life endures but a moment; it will not be long before we shall one and all have been laid to rest.
 
[ὅταν λίαν ἀγανακτῇς ἢ καὶ δυσπαθῇς, ἀκαριαῖος ὁ ἀνθρώπειος βίος καὶ μετ᾿ ὀλίγον πάντες ἐξετάθημεν.]

Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 11, ch. 18 (11.18) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/8183…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #anger #annoyance #brevity #death #frustration #grievance #impatience #indignance #life #lifeisshort #loseyourtemper #mortality #passageoftime #provocation #resentment #upset #vexation #worry

A quotation from Shakespeare

RICHARD: I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, Act 5, sc. 5, l. 50 (5.5.50) (1595)

More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #richardii #dying #monotony #mortality #oldage #regret #wastingtime #passageoftime

A quotation from Cicero

Nothing flourishes for ever; each generation gives place to its successor.
 
[Nihil enim semper floret; aetas succedit aetati.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 11, ch. 15 / sec. 39 (11.15/11.39) (43-02 BC) [ed. Harbottle (1897)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #philippic #impermanence #age #change #era #flourish #flower #generation #passageoftime #success #succession #successor #transience

#photography #grief #shadows #passageoftime

A quotation from Le Guin

I feel like I was walking across Nevada, like the pioneers, carrying a lot of stuff I need, but as I go along I have to keep dropping off things. I had a piano once but it got swamped at a crossing of the Platte. I had a good frypan but it got too heavy and I left it in the Rockies. I had a couple ovaries but they wore out around the time we were in the Carson Sink. I had a good memory but pieces of it keep dropping off, have to leave them scattered around in the sage brush, on the sand hills.

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) American writer
Story (1995-11), “Ether, OR,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction, Vol. 19

More about this quote: wist.info/leguin-ursula-k/8020…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #leguin #ursulakleguin #change #growingold #lettinggo #lifespan #lifetime #passageoftime #riddance #aging #memory

A quotation from Philip Jose Farmer

The old ladies sitting on the side porch waved and called out to him, and he waved back at them. They sat like a bunch of ancient crows on a branch. Time was shooting them down, one by one.

Philip José Farmer (1918-2009) American author
“Stations of the Nightmare — Part One,” Continuum I [ed. Roger Elwood] (1974)

More info about this quote: wist.info/farmer-philip-jose/8…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #philipjosefarmer #death #mortality #oldage #passageoftime

A quotation from Carl Sandburg

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) American poet, biographer
(Attributed)

More info about this quote: wist.info/sandburg-carl/79972/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlsandburg #autonomy #lifespan #lifetime #selfcontrol #selfdirection #time #value #passageoftime #independence

A quotation from Douglas Adams

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter
Attributed in Richard Dawkins, “A Lament for Douglas Adams,” The Guardian (2001-05-13)

More info about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/444/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #salmonofdoubt #deadline #delay #lateness #meme #procrastination #schedule #time #passageoftime #writersblock

A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.
 
[Ἐγγὺς μὲν ἡ σὴ περὶ πάντων λήθη, ἐγγὺς δὲ ἡ πάντων περὶ σοῦ λήθη.]

Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 7, ch. 21 (7.21) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/7926…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #marcusaureliusmeditations #remembrance #afterlife #brevity #death #fame #forget #forgotten #history #passageoftime #past #renown #reputation #time #transience #unimportance #marchoftime #timemarcheson

A quotation from Shakespeare

GAUNT: What is six winters? They are quickly gone.
BOLINGBROKE: To men in joy; but grief makes one hour ten.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, Act 1, sc. 3, l. 266ff (1.3.266-267) (1595)

More info about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #richardii #grief #joy #passageoftime #patience #perspective #sorrow #time #unhappiness

A quotation from Kit Marlowe

MYCETES:            Time passeth swift away;
   Our life is frail, and we may die to-day.

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1, Act 1, sc. 1 (1586-1587)

More info about this quote: wist.info/marlowe-christopher/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #christophermarlowe #kitmarlowe #death #life #mortality #passageoftime #time #timemarcheson #humancondition

A quotation from Lincoln

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: “And this, too, shall pass away.” How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! — how consoling in the depth of affliction!

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1859-09-30), Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/5534…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abelincoln #abrahamlincoln #abrahamlincolnquotes #briefness #brevity #future #impermanence #mementomori #passageoftime #passing #temporary #transitory

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

Our doings are not so important as we naturally suppose; our successes and failures do not after all matter very much. Even great sorrows can be survived; troubles which seem as if they must put an end to happiness for life, fade with the lapse of time until it becomes almost impossible to remember their poignancy. But over and above these self-centered considerations is the fact that one’s ego is no very large part of the world. The man who can center his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life which is impossible to the pure egoist.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 5 “Fatigue” (1930)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/775…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #ego #grief #insignificance #pain #passageoftime #peace #perspective #selfcenteredness #sorrow #tranquility #transcendence #troubles #focus

A quotation from Shakespeare

KING HENRY: O God! Methinks it were a happy life
To be no better than a homely swain,
To sit upon a hill as I do now,
To carve out dials quaintly, point by point,
Thereby to see the minutes how they run:
How many makes the hour full complete,
How many hours brings about the day,
How many days will finish up the year,
How many years a mortal man may live.
When this is known, then to divide the times:
So many hours must I tend my flock,
So many hours must I take my rest,
So many hours must I contemplate,
So many hours must I sport myself,
So many days my ewes have been with young,
So many weeks ere the poor fools will ean,
So many years ere I shall shear the fleece;
So minutes, hours, days, months, and years,
Passed over to the end they were created,
Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.
Ah, what a life were this! How sweet, how lovely!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Henry VI, Part 3, Act 3, sc. 5, l. 21ff (3.5.21-41) (1591)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #henryvi #aging #countryside #happiness #lifetime #mortality #passageoftime #perspective #rustic #simplelife #simplicity

A quotation from Ambrose Bierce

PRESENT, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Present,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/76529…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #disappointment #eternity #future #hope #passageoftime #past #present #time

Google’s New Pixel Watch 3 Can Detect a Loss of Pulse - The company’s wearables technicians talk about pioneering new health advances, along with... - https://www.wired.com/story/google-new-pixel-watch-3-can-detect-a-loss-of-pulse/ #gear/products/healthandfitness #gear/gearnewsandevents #passageoftime #gear

Somewhere Down the Line (2014) [10 min] by Julien Regnard | #Ireland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5po8ywAoKwM

#2D #2DAnimation #3D #3DAnimation #AnimatedShort #AnimatedShortOfTheDay #Animation #RoadTrip #Life #PassageOfTime #CartoonSaloon