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Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with.
It responds like a snail to our impatience,
then it races like a gazelle when you can't catch a breath.
- the movie Simon Birch
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- the movie Simon Birch
When someone you love dies,
you don't lose them all at once.
You lose them in pieces over time
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have faith. I just need proof to back it up.
- the movie Simon Birch
You're already a bastard.
Might as well be an enlightened one.
- the movie Simon Birch
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Who forces time is pushed back by time;
who yields to time finds time on his side.
- The Talmud
The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one time that is important - NOW!
It is the most important time because
it is the only time that we have any power.
- Leo Tolstoy
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The way lies in softness and patience,
as the softest water cuts through the hardest rock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To say "too busy" is merely
to say "confused priorities."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
The season of failure is the best time
for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long.
If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
- Leonardo da Vinci
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
A sloth lives a pretty good life, s-l-o-w-l-y.
Maybe we have something to learn from him.
Some days, being sloth-like may be just what you need
to avoid being consumed by urgency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must use time creatively.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu
Habits age men before their time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who spends time regretting the past,
loses the present and risks the future.
- Quevedo
To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability.
One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
- Stephen Hawking
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
The River of Life can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
The River of Life knows no obstacles.
The River can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
- John F. Kennedy
Time flies.
- Anonymous
If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
The time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
Spend some time alone every day.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Procrastination is the thief of time.
- Edward Young
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
A big part of letting go is recognizing
when it is time to stay in a situation
and when it is time to move on.
- Darren L. Johnson
For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
There may be times when we are powerless
to prevent injustice, but there must never
be a time when we fail to protest.
- Elie Wiesel
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
I must uphold my ideals,
for perhaps the time will come
when I shall be able to carry them out.
- Anne Frank
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