#passing

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute. ↗

— Francis Schaeffer

#age #allowed #curious #insistence #mark

Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young. ↗

— Jaclyn Smith

#aware #children #help #keep #make

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited. ↗

— Beatrice Webb

#anything #besides #bread #determined #eat

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of... ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#dreams

I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for. ↗

— Criss Jami

#brighter #fighting #fighting-battles #greater #greater-glory

I understood and appreciated the miracle of birth, but I did not understand motherhood, nor did I appreciate the oveselling of it. To me it was a choice, one of many options. To others it was what women did. We were supposed to breed. It had been decided for us. Society expected it. Religion demanded it. ↗

— Judy Morgan

#motherhood-once-removed #no-kidding #religion

I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#i #life #live #mean #passing

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#away #brought #current #events #passing

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#because #had #i #passing #regret

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. ↗

— Omar N. Bradley

#every #lights #passing #set #ship