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“Let us strive together to part with time more reluctantly, to watch the pinions of the fleeting moment until they are dim in the distance, and the new-coming moment claims our attention.”
Khalid
[ "living", "time" ]
“Time is the empty space that allows knowledge—let alone wisdom—to grow.”
Khalid
[ "time" ]
“A life without concrete product is a meaningless one”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "meaning-of-life", "meaningless-life", "money", "product", "productive", "productivity", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“The purpose of the church is to reveal to the people who God is”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "people", "purpose", "revelation", "time", "work" ]
“The goal is not to be delivered of your problem only but to be an instrument of God”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "deliverance", "employment", "finance", "goal", "instrumentality", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“You shouldn’t live for yourself alone but you must also learn to live the Christian life”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "christian", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "people", "people-inclusive", "purpose", "selfish", "selfishness", "selfless", "selflessness", "time", "work" ]
“You have to discover how best you can manage your time to carry out your work effectively”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "effective", "effectiveness", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "life", "maximizing-time", "money", "purpose", "time", "time-management", "utilizing-time", "work" ]
“The way we assess time as humans determines what we become”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "life", "money", "purpose", "time", "time-assessment", "work" ]
“Your daily actions should be productive”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "daily-productivity", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "life", "maximizing-time", "money", "product", "productive", "productivity", "purpose", "time", "time-management", "work" ]
“Knowing what to do with time is the key to being productive”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "time", "time-well-spent", "wisdom", "work" ]
“Somehow everything always came down to time, she realized with perfect lucidity. There was either too much or too little. It either passed too quickly or too slowly. It didn’t belong to anyone—it was simply a gift, bestowed by God, and yet eternally taken for granted. She closed her eyes for a moment, wishing Time could be tamed—reigned in—and tethered, synchronized with human needs and wants. But that wasn’t the case, was it?”
Khalid
[ "grief", "immortality", "loss", "love-lost", "separation", "soulmate", "time", "transformation", "vampire", "werewolf" ]
“Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?.. He would not wither. He would not be ashamed of dying.”
Khalid
[ "death", "disease", "ill", "left", "terminal", "thoughts", "time" ]
“After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough. No more playing music at half-empty night clubs. No more writing songs in my apartment, songs that no one would hear.”
Khalid
[ "change", "funeral", "life", "perspective", "precious", "time", "urgency" ]
“I wrote articles about rich athletes who, for the most part, could not care less about people like me. .. My days were full, yet I remained, much of the time, unsatisfied. What happened to me?”
Khalid
[ "busy", "change", "life", "time", "unsatisfied", "work" ]
“But I can sit here with my dwindling days and look at what I think is important in life. I have both the time - and the reason - to do that.”
Khalid
[ "dwindle", "dying", "end", "ill", "important", "life", "reason", "think", "time" ]
“Holding him like that moved me in a way I cannot describe, except to say I felt the seeds of death inside his shrivelling frame, and as I laid him in his chair, adjusting his head on the pillows, I had the coldest realisation that our time was running out.”
Khalid
[ "cold", "death", "dying", "hold", "ill", "move", "realise", "run-out", "time" ]
“If some mystical clarity of thought came when you looked death in the eye, then I knew Morrie wanted to share it. And I wanted to remember it for as long as I could.”
Khalid
[ "clarity", "death", "dying", "ill", "memory", "remember", "share", "thought", "time" ]
“Be what you must, because who you are is all of us.”
Khalid
[ "consciousness", "dreams", "memories", "mentality", "mind", "nora", "shadows", "subconscious", "thoughts", "time" ]
“Only now that he had great swathes of time could he begin to have hobbies. This was why art was such an incalculable luxury: it sent out a message saying, "I have time to subcontract all the menial, dull chores out to others; I waste hours in idle contemplation of a piece of cloth covered in spots; I am an art lover; I am time-rich. I can mooch about in a sea of pickled sharks.”
Khalid
[ "art", "luxury", "sharks", "time" ]
“To be completely ignorant of the collective past seems to me to be another state of amnesia; you would be untethered, adrift in time. Which is why all societies have sought some kind of memory bank, whether by way of folklore, story-telling, recitation of the ancestors--from Homer to Genesis. And why the heritage industry does so well today; most people may not be particularly interested in the narrative of the past, in the detail or the discussion, but they are glad to know that it is there.”
Khalid
[ "heritage", "heritage-industry", "history", "past", "time" ]
“You get diminishing returns when you are restricted to your comfort zone”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "breaking-free", "breaking-out", "comfort-zone", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "limitation", "money", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“Your destiny lies in your hands and can be molded with each passing day by the choices you make”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "choice", "choices", "choices-and-consequences", "destiny", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“After you discover your purpose, you have to build a platform for your calling”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "calling", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "platform", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“Don’t just be a deliverer of yourself, but a deliverer of your whole nation”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "deliverance", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "leadership", "life", "money", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“Don’t be too stereotyped, be ready to explore new opportunities”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "explore", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "open-mindedness", "opportunities", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“There is a huge difference between living a Christian life and living a religious life”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "christian", "employment", "finance", "hypocrisy", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "religion", "time", "work" ]
“We were created by God to carry out and fulfill His divine purpose for our lives”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "creation", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "purpose-of-creation", "time", "work" ]
“We were created to purposefully live a life that glorifies God”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "creation", "employment", "finance", "glorification-of-god", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“We have to discover the essence of our creation for us to carry out our purpose as believers”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "essence-of-creation", "finance", "fulfillment-of-purpose", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“No human was created without a purpose”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "creation", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“You have to discover the needs of the people you want to minister to”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "ministration", "ministry", "money", "needs", "people", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“You need to use the instrument that the people desire to captivate them back to things that are right”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "captivation", "desire", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "ministration", "ministry", "money", "purpose", "time", "wisdom", "work" ]
“Do not do anything local as believers. Whatever you do should be magnified to be comprehensive”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "comprehensive", "employment", "finance", "global-thinking", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "relevance", "time", "work" ]
“When you increase and multiply, you get much more influence and reach beyond your imagination”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "growth", "increase", "influence", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "relevance", "time", "work" ]
“Our goal in life is to bring the Kingdom of God to people and help change their lives”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "goal", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "ministry", "money", "people", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“Don’t just bring religion to people but also change their value system”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "people", "purpose", "religion", "time", "value-system", "values", "work" ]
“Take love to people and teach them to abide by the principles of God”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "godly-principles", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "love", "money", "principles", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“Teach the people the Word before converting and baptizing them”
Khalid
[ "baptism", "blessing", "conversion", "education", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "ministration", "ministry", "money", "people", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“Reveal to the people and make them experience God first before you make them church members”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "ministration", "ministry", "money", "personal-experience", "purpose", "revelation", "time", "work" ]
“Always be the light. Do not wait for others to take responsibility”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "leadership", "life", "money", "purpose", "responsibility", "time", "work" ]
“A purposeless life is a meaningless life”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“Once you are saved, you have to locate your own territory”
Khalid
[ "area-of-influence", "blessing", "designated-territory", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "territory", "time", "work" ]
“The essence of life is fulfillment”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "essence-of-life", "finance", "fulfillment", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“Don’t just make use of a gift, look inside you and maximize others”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "gift", "gifting", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "maximization-of-potential", "money", "purpose", "self-discovery", "time", "work" ]
“You must be able to bring relevance to people”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "people", "purpose", "relevance", "relevant", "time", "work" ]
“To work for God effectively, you have to expand and stretch yourself”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "effectiveness", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "self-improvement", "time", "work" ]
“You have to bring relevance to people before teaching them the ways of Christ”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "ministration", "ministry", "money", "people", "purpose", "relevance", "relevant", "time", "work" ]
“Locate the needs of the people and find out how best you can help them before bringing them to Christ”
Khalid
[ "assist", "assistance", "blessing", "employment", "finance", "help", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "needs", "people", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“We were all created differently, each with his/her calling and purpose”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "calling", "creation", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "purpose-of-creation", "time", "work" ]
“Your life would never have a meaning if you don’t have a goal or purpose”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "goal", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "meaning-of-life", "meaningless-life", "money", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“What you do with your time on a daily basis determines what values will be added to your life”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "time", "time-management", "value", "work" ]
“You need to invest time in understanding and discovering yourself”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "invest", "investment", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "self-discovery", "time", "understanding", "wealth-discovery", "work" ]
“Measure your life by the product and value you produce daily”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "product", "productive", "productivity", "purpose", "time", "value", "work" ]
“Evaluate and assess your life on a daily”
Khalid
[ "assessment", "blessing", "employment", "evaluate", "evaluation", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "self-assessment", "time", "work" ]
“To maximize time is to make sure that every second, minute and hour counts”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "maximization", "money", "purpose", "time", "time-management", "work" ]
“Every minute, hour and hour that passes daily should be converted into product”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "conversion", "convert", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "product", "production", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“Every unit of time that passes daily should be accounted for”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "time", "time-management", "work" ]
“Never let a day be your control factor”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "time", "time-management", "work" ]
“Time should be reproduced and multiplied”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "time", "time-management", "work" ]
“Always spend your time adding value to your life”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "time", "time-management", "value", "work" ]
“Create/add value to your life on a daily basis”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "time", "time-management", "value", "work" ]
“To build yourself is to add value to your life”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "development", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "self-development", "time", "value", "work" ]
“A product should be made intentionally”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "deliberate", "deliberation", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "product", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“Life should be measured with product”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "product", "productivity", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“You need to live a productive life”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "productive", "productivity", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“Always evaluate and determine the product of your life”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "product", "productive", "productivity", "purpose", "self-evaluation", "time", "work" ]
“Always ask yourself what you have achieved within a given time and the product of your life”
Khalid
[ "achievement", "blessing", "employment", "finance", "goal", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "product", "productive", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“Don’t act based on religion; always have a purpose and focus”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "focus", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "religion", "time", "work" ]
“Life is a race against time”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "contention", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "race", "time", "work" ]
“Your race is your diminishing life”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "race", "time", "work" ]
“Don’t allow your life disappear into an abstract mirage”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "time", "time-management", "work" ]
“Your race against life must yield effort for you to be productive”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "productive", "productivity", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“Always be intentional and purposeful in life”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“Losing your job gives you the ability to decide what product each unit of your passing life should produce”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“Joblessness gives you control over the product of your life”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "productive", "productivity", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“The only way to live a life without regret is to make sure each unit of time that passes is being converted into product”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "productive", "productivity", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“Be conscious about life and time in order to maximize your time effectively”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "conscious", "consciousness", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“Always account for each unit of passing time”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“You’ve got little time on earth, make each day count”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "time", "time-management", "work" ]
“Always make positive use of every second and minute”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "time", "time-management", "work" ]
“Time passes so fast. Make time to be still.”
Khalid
[ "inspirational", "relax", "stillness", "time" ]
“Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?”
Khalid
[ "memory", "time" ]
“If you are working with no vision to be own your own boss, you are no different from people who are unemployed”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "entrepreneur", "entrepreneurship", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "time", "vision", "work" ]
“Peter sank. "I'd give anything to see time.”
Khalid
[ "immortality", "irony", "neverland", "peter-pan", "time" ]
“To be productive, effective and to live a life of understanding and wisdom is not to waste time”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "effective", "effectiveness", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "productive", "productivity", "purpose", "time", "understanding", "waste", "wisdom", "work" ]
“Surely even those immune from the world, for the time being, need the touch of one another, or all is lost.”
Khalid
[ "fruits-and-vegetables", "psychosomatic", "time" ]
“time's precious, waste it wisely”
Khalid
[ "attitude", "knowledge", "silly", "time", "valuable" ]
“An imagined landscape, then, is a landscape not of being but of becoming: a composition not of objects and surfaces but of movements and stillness, not there to be surveyed but cast in the current of time.”
Khalid
[ "imagined", "landscape", "time" ]
“A job should only be a stepping stone to being your own boss”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "temporary", "time", "work" ]
“You must develop your skills around your calling”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "calling", "develop", "development", "employment", "finance", "gift", "gifting", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "skills", "time", "work" ]
“The best way to assess yourself is to base the assessment on the product you produce daily”
Khalid
[ "assessment", "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "product", "productivity", "progress", "purpose", "self-assessment", "time", "work" ]
“Time wasted can never be compensated”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "compensate", "compensation", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "time", "waste", "work" ]
“Always invest your life in your calling and purpose”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "calling", "employment", "finance", "invest", "investment", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“To waste time is to lose life”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "loss", "money", "purpose", "time", "waste", "work" ]
“What you do with your time daily is essential for spiritual and physical growth”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "essential", "finance", "growth", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "spiritual", "time", "time-management", "work" ]
“In the end, Nora, there’s only time. All we have is time…and even if this wasn’t happening, we still don’t ever have much…no one does. We only have the moment we’re in. We have right now.”
Khalid
[ "inspirational", "life", "love", "now", "time" ]
“Getting fired from work does not make you a failure. Letting it take control of your life is what does”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "control", "employment", "fail", "failure", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“Never let employment hinder you from fulfillment”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "finance", "fulfillment", "hinderance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "time", "work" ]
“The most successful people in the world today are entrepreneurs”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "employment", "entrepreneur", "entrepreneurship", "finance", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "success", "successful", "time", "work" ]
“Channel your energy into your God-given purpose. Being out of a job gives you all the time you need to grow”
Khalid
[ "blessing", "develop", "development", "employment", "energy", "finance", "growth", "job", "jobless", "joblessness", "life", "money", "purpose", "time", "work" ]