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“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. -J.R.R. Tolkien
Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this. - Dave Eggers
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
How did it get so late so soon -Dr. Seuss
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. -Mother Theresa
You can have it all. Just not all at once. -Oprah Winfrey
Time is the longest distance between two places. -Tennessee Williams
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. -Andy Warhol
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. -Andy Warhol
They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite - Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. -Charles Darwin
This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change. -Taylor Swift
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. -Cormac McCarthy
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting. -Haruki Murakami
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. -Kurt Vonnegut
Time is an illusion. -Albert Einstein
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity. -Jean de La Bruyère
You may delay, but time will not. -Benjamin Franklin
It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing. -Audrey Niffenegger
Time is a game played beautifully by children. -Heraclitus
Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in t -Lauren Oliver
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time. -Jorge Luis Borges
One day spent with someone you love can change everything. -Mitch Albom
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream. - Edgar Allan Poe
Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. -Stephen King
Time is what we want most,but what we use worst. -William Penn
The future is uncertain but the end is always near. - jim morrison
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. -Jean Genet
My past is everything I failed to be. -Fernando Pessoa
The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience. - Leo Tolstoy
I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. -Edgar Allan Poe
There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable. -Cassandra Clare
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. -Alan Watts
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. - Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself. -Khaled Hosseini
All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt. -Susan Sontag
Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. - Ray Cummings
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. - C.S. Lewis
There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well. -Nicholas Sparks
Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the - Eckhart Tolle
The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality. -Terry Pratchett
The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do. -Neil Gaima
She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward. -Markus Zusak
Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever. -Anthony Doerr
There is more to life than simply increasing its speed. - Mahatma Gandhi
he cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. -Henry David Thoreau
“Lost Time is never found again. -Benjamin Franklin
here will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet. -T.S. Eliot.
Time spent with a cat is never wasted. -Colette
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. -Coco Chanel
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others. -Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs. - Miss Piggy
The future starts today, not tomorrow. - Pope John Paul II
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. - Omar Khayyám
I give you this to take with you: Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you can begin again, with pure joy in the uprooting. -Judith Minty
Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be. -Jennifer Elisabeth
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. -Alan Wilson Watts
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life -William Faulkner
The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now. -Bill Cosby
Punctuality is the thief of time -Oscar Wilde
I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time. -Johnny Depp
It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning. - Vincent Van Gogh
Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed. -Miranda July
With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have - Mitch Albom
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
Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is. -Mario Benedetti
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. -Benjamin Disraeli
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time. -Dante Alighieri
But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I’ll be in love with tomorrow. -Gayle Forman
Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still. - David Foster Wallace
But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Time will explain. - Jane Austen
The best things are never arrived at in haste. God is in no hurry; His plans are never rushed. -Michael Phillips
Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone. -Jeanette Winterson
The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now. -Rick Warren
Sometimes the things that are felt the most are expressed between two souls over the distance and over time...where no words abide. And others may speak freely, live with one another freely, express themselves freely– just like everyone else, but then t - C. JoyBell C
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have. -Eckhart Tolle
Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend. - Diogenes
Time heals all wounds. But not this one. Not yet. - Marie Lu
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past. -Fidel Castro
Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past. - T.S. Eliot
Where your attention goes, your time goes - Idowu Koyenikan
Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting. -William Gibson
Time management is about life management. - Idowu Koyenikan
And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit. -Martin Amis
Nothing endures but change. - Heraclitus
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. -William Shakespeare
Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart. - Haruki Murakami
Time is more precious than gold, more precious than diamonds, more precious than oil or any valuable treasures. It is time that we do not have enough of; it is time that causes the war within our hearts, and so we must spend it wisely. -Cecelia Ahern
Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings. -John Updike
Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you. -Shannon L. Alder
Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom - John Muir
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. - William Shakespeare
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. -Geoffrey Chaucer
It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten. -Anna Wintour
Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if your heart isn’t crazy, since "the rest of your life" won’t last forever. -Omar Khayyám
Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?†Scotty shook his head. “The goon won. -Jennifer Egan
How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible. - Karen Thompson Walker
I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing. -Jennifer Elisabeth
“Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone. -Joan Didion
I wake up and I see the face of the devil and I ask him, "What time is it -Diamanda Galas
despite knowing they won’t be here for long they still choose to live their brightest lives - sunflowers - Rupi Kaur
In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie. -Carl Sagan
In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie. -Carl Sagan
