Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with..
- the movie Simon Birch
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When someone you love dies,
you don't lose them all at once.
You lose them in pieces over time
- the movie Simon Birch
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
You're already a bastard.
Might as well be an enlightened one.
- the movie Simon Birch
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What does coffee and donuts have to do with God?
- the movie Simon Birch (1998)
I have faith. I just need proof to back it up.
- 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
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
Who forces time is pushed back by time;
who yields to time finds time on his side.
- The Talmud
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
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- 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
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
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
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way lies in softness and patience,
as the softest water cuts through the hardest rock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
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.
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
We must use time creatively.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The hardest part is what to leave behind, ... It's time to let go!
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Does thou love life? Then do not squander time;
for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
The sum of wisdom is that
time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Habits age men before their time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Once you have mastered time,
you will understand how true it is that
most people overestimate what
they can accomplish in a year -
and underestimate what
they can achieve in a decade!
- Tony Robbins
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- 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.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
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
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
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
- John F. Kennedy
Urgent? Why?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
- John F. Kennedy
I must uphold my ideals,
for perhaps the time will come
when I shall be able to carry them out.
- Anne Frank
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
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
The time is always right to do what is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
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
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The River of Life knows no obstacles.
The River can cut through solid rock - in its own time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Service is the rent we pay for being.
It is the very purpose of life,
and not something you do in your spare time.
- Marion Wright Edelman
He who spends time regretting the past,
loses the present and risks the future.
- Quevedo
Take time to sharpen the saw.
- Steven Covey
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
In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous
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
If you're doing your best,
you won't have any time to worry about failure.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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