Gallery Walk - Time quotes

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There are calendars and clocks to measure it, but it won’t say much, because everyone knows that one may experience a single hour like an eternity, but sometimes it passes like a moment – depending on what you experienced in this hour. Because time is life. And life’s home is in the heart.

– Michael Ende

Until this day, more and more people had less and less time, although time was being saved by all means. But you see, exactly the time saved was the one lost.

– Michael Ende

Children are more resistant to saving time than all other people.

– Michael Ende

And those who possess the time of men, has unlimited power!

– Michael Ende

Because everyone has their own time. And just as long as it is really his, he remains alive.

– Michael Ende

As you have eyes to see the light, and ears to hear sounds, so you have a heart in order to perceive time. And all time not perceived with the heart is as lost as the colors of the rainbow to a blind man or the song of a bird for a deaf man. But unfortunately, there are blind and deaf hearts which perceive nothing, even though they beat.

– Michael Ende

If people knew what death was, they would no longer be afraid of it. And if they had no fear, then nobody could steal their life’s time any longer.

– Michael Ende

There is a large and quite commonplace mystery. All people are a part of it, everyone knows it, but few ever think about it. Most people take it for granted and don’t ever wonder. This mystery is time ...

– Michael Ende

It is not that we have too little time, but there is too much time, we do not use.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There are thieves who do not get punished even though they steal the most precious thing: time.

– Napoleon Bonaparte

The time we take is time that is gives us something back.

– Ernst Ferstl

If you sit for two hours with a girl, it seems as if it was a minute. If you sit but one minute on a hot stove, it seems as if it were two hours. That is relativity.

– Albert Einstein

There are more important things in life than constantly increasing its speed.

– Mahatma Gandhi

Time is money.

– Benjamin Franklin

"Good day," said the little prince.
"Good day," said the merchant.
He traded with absolutely effective, thirst-quenching pills. You swallow one every week and will not feel the need to drink anything.
"Why are you selling those?" said the little prince.
"It is a great time saver. It saves fifty-three minutes per week. "
"And what do you do with those 53 minutes?"
"You do with it what you want."
"If I had fifty-three minutes left," said the little prince, "I would go quite slowly to a well ..."

– Antoine de Saint Exupery

Lost time is never found.

– Benjamin Franklin

The most modern form of human poverty is Not-having-time.

– Ernst Ferstl

It is good if the passing of time

does not appear as something

that consumes us,

but rather as something

that completes us.

– Antoine de Saint Exupéry

In this country you have to run as fast as you can if you want to stay in the same place.

– The Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland