Quotes About Time

I've learned that patience is something you don't "have"; you must create it yourself. It isn't a commodity doled out to all infants in varying amounts at birth. You learn (and earn) patience by making time for it, calming yourself down, relaxing, and letting it happen. The more you practice patience, the more you have. And the more you have, the easier it is to summon when you need it most.

When one of us alternates between time and space the rest of us drive by the airport.

Life may not be perfect, at least it offered moments that were perfect enough.

And you couldn't be anywhere at all without having been almost there for a while.

Sometimes memories hit like a wallop, all of a sudden, and hard. Other times, for no reason that anyone can explain, memories take much longer to sink in. They seem to meander a bit before choosing which mind to settle into.

Even in their brief time together, Nora had come to understand the difference between infatuation and love. Infatuation was weather. Love was climate.

But patience, real patience, meant more than simply waiting. Patience meant you had to honor the moments before things happened the same way you honored the moments when they did.

Patience meant you had to honor the moments before things happened the same way you honored the moments when they did.

BY LISA GRUNWALD Time After Time The Irresistible Henry House Whatever Makes You Happy New Year's Eve The Theory of Everything Summer

Time heals all wounds, I'm sure it's true, but not until after the wounds have been felt.

BOOKS BY LISA GRUNWALD Time After Time The Irresistible Henry House Whatever Makes You Happy New Year's Eve The Theory of Everything Summer

That's always the way in life: the longer you leave things, the harder they are to do.

They say that your powers of memory are at their peak when you're 26, and it's all downhill after that.

But she has five years to find Him and marry him and then another five years to have a baby, maybe two if she likes the first one. She's not in a rush. Not yet. She'll just keep swinging left, keep looking nice when she goes out, keep accepting invitations to social events, keep positive, keep slim, keep herself together, keep going.

He knows there's more to life than five major events, that life is made up of all the moments in between.

Memories fluttered about her mind, of days that had passed and died and were never to return.

She can see how this self-possessed child might appear to other children. But she doesn't believe that it's the way it must be; she doesn't believe that Poppy couldn't learn to enjoy time with her peers, to stop rolling her eyes at them and alienating them. She doesn't know, thinks Laurel, she doesn't know that this isn't how you grow up.

That knife edge of time that could end with a laugh and a hug or a broken finger ir a Chinese burn.

Things that felt like a good idea at ten o'clock would seem like the worst idea in the world by ten thirty. Someone once said to her that the key to a happy life was making good decisions. But making good decisions was beyond her because she could always see an infinity of outcomes and all of them seemed good for at least a moment.

Being a good dancer, for example. Great on a second date, but not so important fifteen years down the road with two children, two careers and a future to worry about. At eight fifteen Nathan

From the first night that both her children slept through the night, Kim has placed a very – possibly disproportionately – high value on an unbroken night. She had her kids young and easily had time enough and room in her heart for another one or two. But she could not face the prospect of sleepless nights again. For

And then, just over twelve months ago, her teenage daughter, Tallulah, had a baby. And now Kim is a grandmother at the age of thirty-nine and there is a crying baby in her house again, soon, it feels, so soon, after her own babies stopped crying.

They don't know who the prime minister is; they don't know what day of the week, month or even year it is. They can't quite remember their daughters' names and they certainly can't remember if they had lunch today or what the plan is for supper tonight.

que a vida não é feita só de cinco grandes acontecimentos, mas sim dos momentos que ocorrem entre eles.