Time

"Then his friend said, 'If you fly you will save a day.' He nodded, he agreed, he would sacrifice his ticket, he would save a day. I ask you what does a day saved matter to him or to you? A day saved from what? for what? Instead of spending the day traveling, you will see your friend a day earlier, but you cannot stay indefinitely, you will travel home twenty-four hours sooner, that is all. But you will fly home and again save a day? Save it form what, for what? You will begin work a day earlier, but you cannot work on indefinitely. It only means that you will cease work a day earlier. And then, what? You cannot die a day earlier. So you will realize perhaps how rash it was of you to save a day, when you discover how you cannot escape those twenty-four hours you have so carefully preserved; you may push them forward and push them forward, but some time they must be spend, and then you may wish you had spent them as innocently as in the train from Ostend."

"While the people of Madrid seem to have resigned to selling almost anything - the one thing they have never given up on so far - is time. It is the one commodity that is never sold and always shared."

"all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody's reach. A place beyond the flow of time."

"I had the endless day, months and months of endless days, and yet my return date bounded this sense of boundlessness, kept it from becoming threatening."

"Travel is the treasure of time."

"Drifting across the vast space, silent except for wind and footsteps, I felt uncluttered and unhurried for the first time in a while, already on desert time."

"Kindness is fate’s currency for good fortune. And like all currencies, it is without value when faked."

"If time is standing still, then why do we allow months and years to let us kill?"

"For eternity, time is standing still. In the expanding space, we are moving"

"We celebrate the event not the time."

"Time is the most valuable currency so spend it wisely"

"Time is standing still. We are measuring ourselves by how far we are going."

"Life is nothing but a transient dream dancing at the tip of a leaf called time."

"Time is standing still like the sun. We are the ones moving around time like planets orbiting the sun."

"Time never changes—only we change. We measure the changes of our lives and think that we are measuring time. We are just measuring the movement of the earth."

"If You Knew What if you knew you'd be the lastto touch someone?If you were taking tickets, for example,at the theater, tearing them,giving back the ragged stubs,you might take care to touch that palmbrush your fingertipsalong the lifeline's crease. When a man pulls his wheeled suitcasetoo slowly through the airport, whenthe car in front of me doesn't signal,when the clerk at the pharmacywon't say thank you, I don't rememberthey're going to die. A friend told me she'd been with her aunt. They'd just had lunch and the waiter,a young gay man with plum black eyes,joked as he served the coffee, kissedher aunt's powdered cheek when they left. Then they walked half a block and her auntdropped dead on the sidewalk. How close does the dragon's spumehave to come? How wide does the crackin heaven have to split?What would people look likeif we could see them as they are,soaked in honey, stung and swollen,reckless, pinned against time?"

"In order to master compassion, you have to spend time getting to know monsters. When you can do that you will see that there are no monsters, only people that acted like monsters because no one gave them the time or compassion to hear their story."

"The greatest gift you can give is your time.  Not money, not items, not food, not pretty cards with handwritten sentiment, but time.  People need your presence.  The way you can help a soul the most is to simply be there."

"The healthy should be reminded that we are all dying because it is through our own reminder of mortality that we accelerate our good intentions, into actions people can see."

"She said, "Right now, while we have this time, I'm not going to do any of that other stuff. I'm going to seize this moment and simply enjoy being with Jesus while I can." Mary made a deliberate choice. She wasn't being lazy and using company as an excuse to get out of helping her sister with chores. She was choosing to focus on what mattered the most."