Quotes About Time

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Too many people are missing their destiny a year at a time because they're too scared to think in decades!" (p. 127)

One thing I learned in this world? Things don't last. People say they do. They don't. Your friends, they die. The wars go on and on and on, then they end. People say they will love each other for the rest of their lives, and they don't.

You lived in the present, but that present always contained a past, some image of a ruined paradise.

Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned white, dancing in a living room to Billie Holiday or Nat Cole. They will not enter a New York club at midnight and show the poor hip-hop fools how to dance. They will not chuckle together over the endless folly of the world, its vanities and stupid ambitions. They will not hug each other in any chilly New York dawn. Oh, Mary Lou. My baby. My love.

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But once you cross the Shannon - even though geographically you have only come a short distance - different rules of time apply, and most people still understand the crucial secret of human happiness: that it's better to do a few things slowly, than a lot of things fast.

If life is a book, then read it while you can.

If life is a book, then read it while you can. Don't save up any pages for later, because there might not be one.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

I want to age with some dignity.

Can't pretend that growin' older never hurts.

The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday.

His face is a stage on which heartbreaking emotions play out. Sometimes he looks lost, a boy alone. Other moments he seems sad, his gaze downcast. Other times, terror bolts across his face, like a child who wakes from a bad dream confused by what he has seen. He has not spoken much of his time alone.

Another activity to keep your child from being stuck in the past is the drawing exercise below, designed to give your child a sense of the movement of time.

you have practiced the exercises, you realize that with time, intention, safety and awareness, unpleasant sensations do and will change.

The time it takes to establish a sense of calm is time well spent.

Just like the splint sets a broken arm properly, your undivided attention and soothing, non-judgmental language set the conditions for your child, in his or her own time, to rebound to a healthy sense of well-being.

God did not say everything at once. The earlier communications take into account the limitations in the understanding of people at earlier times.

Rachel turned and looked at him, and saw his tired gray eyes and his tired gray skin. If he would go away she could imagine it was yesterday.

I have liv'd long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin for myself: I cannot change that Thing call'd Time, but I can alter its Posture and, as Boys do turn a looking-glass against the Sunne, so I will dazzle you all.

I was at peace with a world which afforded so much bounty, and began to enjoy living at the very end of time.

The highway's closed at a certain point. You have a certain amount of miles that you can make. It's a recognition of mortality.

Only now, on the other side of his success, Bruce had come to understand what time and experience can do to the most closely held dreams. The point in your late twenties when you're grown up enough to realize that 'life is no longer wide open'.