We are so busy we hardly have time to look at the people we love, even in our own household, and to look at ourselves. Society is organized in a way that even when we have some leisure time, we don't know how to use it to get back in touch with ourselves. We have millions of ways to lose this precious time-we turn on the TV, or pick up the telephone, or start the car and go somewhere. We are not used to being with ourselves, and we act as if we don't like ourselves and are trying to escape from ourselves.

how we seek to spend our time may depend on how much time we perceive ourselves to have.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.

Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.

We spend our midday sweat, our midnight oil;
We tire the night in thought, the day in toil.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Okay, this is the thing. We spend all our time doing, you know, stuff. Maintenance. Ninety-eight percent of the day, all you’re doing is thinking about what you’re going to be doing to go on doing what you’re doing. Worrying about whether you’ve got enough socked away to see you through your old age without ending up eating cat food. Worrying about whether you’re getting enough fiber or eating too many carbs. It’s being alive, but it’s hardly living.

And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?

Personally, it just gave me more time to do some thinking, to re-energise and revaluate my life, which I feel happens to just everybody. Having your ‘me-time’ is key for your mental health; I did a lot of soul searching and a lot of planning.

When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about ourselves.

We both insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. We read and think. So Warren and I do more reading and thinking and less doing than most people in business.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

أليس غريباً أن نمضى حياتنا ونحن نفكر بالأشياء التى نحب
أن نفعلها ولا نستطيع

We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out windows, or drown themselves, or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us are slowly devoured by some disease, or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself. There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds & expectations, to burst open & give us everything we've ever imagined, though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) know these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning, we hope, more than anything for more. Heaven only knows why we love it so.