Eleanor H. Porter - Time Quotes

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You lose such a lot of time just sleeping... when you might just be living!... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.

Eleanor H. Porter

Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.

Eleanor H. Porter

Oh, of course I'd be breathing all the time I was doing those things, Aunt Polly, but I wouldn't be living. You breathe all the time you're asleep, but you aren't living. I mean living — doing the things you want to do... Just breathing isn't living!

Eleanor H. Porter

Mrs. Snow had lived forty years, and for fifteen of those years she had been too busy wishing things were different to find much time to enjoy things as they were.

Eleanor H. Porter

If God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it—SOME.

Eleanor H. Porter