lifetime

I am constantly mystified by what John ends up remembering_ I just don__ understand why he__ able to hang on to information like that, while so many other more important memories evaporate. Then again, I suppose so much of what stays with us is often insignificant. The memories we take to the ends of our lives have no real rhyme or reason, especially when you think of the endless things that you do over the course of a day, a week, a month, a year, a lifetime. All the cups of coffee, hand-washings, changes of clothes, lunches, goings to the bathroom, headaches, naps, walks to school, trips to the grocery store, conversations about the weather__ll the things so unimportant they should be immediately forgotten. Yet they aren__. I often think of the Chinese red bathrobe I had when I was twenty-seven years old; the sound of our first cat Charlie__ feet on the linoleum of our old house; the hot rarefied air around aluminum pot the moment before the kernels of popcorn burst open. I think of these things as often as I think about getting married or giving birth or the end of the Second World War. What is truly amazing is that before you know it, sixty years go by and you can remember maybe eight or nine important events, along with a thousand meaningless ones. How can that be?You want to think there__ a pattern to it all because it makes you feel better, gives you some sense of a reason why we__e here, but there really isn__ any. People look for God in these patterns, these reasons, but only because they don__ know where else to look.Things happen to us: some of it important, most of it not, and a little of it stays with us till the end. What stays after that? I__l be damned if I know.(pp.174-175)

How tragic it is to find that an entire lifetime is wasted in pursuit of distractions while purpose is neglected.

It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.

the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.

People represented in book or film travel vast oceans of life unrecorded; studeo time costs money, and pens grow heavy.

We only have one chance in this life, so don't waste it on trivial people and matters.

People think of education as something that they can finish. And what__ more, when they finish, it__ a rite of passage. You__e finished with school. You__e no more a child, and therefore anything that reminds you of school - reading books, having ideas, asking questions - that__ kid__ stuff. Now you__e an adult, you don__ do that sort of thing any more.You have everybody looking forward to no longer learning, and you make them ashamed afterward of going back to learning. If you have a system of education using computers, then anyone, any age, can learn by himself, can continue to be interested. If you enjoy learning, there__ no reason why you should stop at a given age. People don__ stop things they enjoy doing just because they reach a certain age.What__ exciting is the actual process of broadening yourself, of knowing there__ now a little extra facet of the universe you know about and can think about and can understand. It seems to me that when it__ time to die, there would be a certain pleasure in thinking that you had utilized your life well, learned as much as you could, gathered in as much as possible of the universe, and enjoyed it. There__ only this one universe and only this one lifetime to try to grasp it. And while it is inconceivable that anyone can grasp more than a tiny portion of it, at least you can do that much. What a tragedy just to pass through and get nothing out of it.

I have a good relationship with Lifetime.

From the house of unbeliefto true religionis a single breath;From the world of doubtto certaintyis a single breath;Enjoy this precious single breath,for the harvestof our whole livesis that same one breath.

All I needed was the courage to be me. That courage took a lifetime to develop.

YOU are your love of a lifetime.

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

They're funny things, legacies are. They can make a person's good-doings extend beyond his or her lifetime, and burden everyone else around who's related to live up to or better it. But they're always very important to maintain to the best of one's ability because that's as close to immortality one can get.

Remember sixteen _ when all the world was new and a lifetime stretched before you like fresh snow just waiting for your footprints?

You must take into account the actual distinction between truth and fact. It is beyond all human power to tell all the facts. Your whole lifetime spent at nothing else would not tell all the facts of one morning in your life, just any ordinary morning when you get up, dress, get breakfast and wash the dishes. Facts are infinite in number. The truth is a meaning underlying them; you tell the truth by selecting the facts to illustrate it.

Turn your situation over to God because He can do more in a moment than you can do in a lifetime. _ Joyce Meyer

The scandal with the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea is how it managed to obtain a construction permit to build a manned telescope in a known biologically toxic environment to workers. How many more people need to die, get injured or develop long term very high altitude sickness that will last a lifetime?

We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.