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He who spends time regretting the past,
loses the present and risks the future.
- Quevedo
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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day,
he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.
But if he spends his days as a speculator,
shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time,
he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
Who forces time is pushed back by time;
who yields to time finds time on his side.
- The Talmud
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Urgent? Why?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
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
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
To say "too busy" is merely
to say "confused priorities."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Embrace your uniqueness.
Time is much too short to be
living someone else's life.
- Kobi Yamada
Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you.
- Saint Bartholomew
The World Runs On God's Rules, and On God's Time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nurturing is not complex.
It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you
and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time;
it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
- Sydney Harris
There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein
The way lies in softness and patience,
as the softest water cuts through the hardest rock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time expands like a brightly colored balloon
when it is filled with joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every time you hear a bell ring,
it means that some angel's just got his wings.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
We are all different - and we are all one.
Take time to understand, and to appreciate.
- 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
You're just left with yourself all the time,
whatever you do anyway.
You've got to get down to your
own God in your own temple.
It's all down to you, mate.
- John Lennon
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools,
but the gentle touches of air and water
working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
- Henry David Thoreau
Anyone can heal who believes that he can
and will take the time to put that belief into motion.
- Ernest Holmes
Everything has it's own time and place.
Transformation becomes effortless when we go with the flow.
- Shelli Thompson
If patience is worth anything,
it must endure to the end of time.
And a living faith will last
in the midst of the blackest storm.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm becoming more and more myself with time.
I guess that's what grace is.
The refinement of your soul through time.
- Jewel
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
There is time for everything when Spirit is my guide.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take time to contemplate -
away from the opinions and influence of others -
what you really want
and what you believe to be important in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time flies.
- Anonymous
Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
The Eye-of-the-Storm.
Surrounded by the winds and the rain,
yet peaceful in its own unworldly way -
an unnatural ruddy-cloudy misty-bright kind of way.
Whatever comes next, the eye of the storm is
a moment of serenity among the challenge -
a time for repose and contemplation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I must uphold my ideals,
for perhaps the time will come
when I shall be able to carry them out.
- Anne Frank
When we are happy and serene,
time loses its power over us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Like a Cat, I am Independent, Patient, Alert, and Decisive.
When the time is right, I pounce on opportunity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Little minds have little worries,
big minds have no time for worries.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
From far beyond this life,
I hear the call.
From place beyond all place,
I feel the call.
From time before all time,
I know the call.
From one before all ones,
I am the call.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Instead of worrying about what people say of you,
why not spend time trying to accomplish
something they will admire.
- Dale Carnegie
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- 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
This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
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
The season of failure is the best time
for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
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.
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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