Paulo Coelho Quotes

Time does not always pass at the same speed. We are the ones who determine that speed.

Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart.

Time is a funny thing. I was always puzzled with the way a single day could stretch itself out to the point of eternity in your mind, all while years melted down into the fraction of a second.

Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite can be just as true: A month or year can zoom by in what feels like no time at all.

Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass?

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.

Time was a funny and fickle thing. Sometimes there was never enough of it, and other times it stretched out endlessly.

Time is not an absolute reality but an aspect of our consciousness.

One's relationship to time is complicated, and sometimes a day will drag on forever and sometimes it'll be over in a flash. When you look back, "I'm old," after 40 or 60 years, I can't believe I'm as old as I am.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains.

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.

Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.

These tenses-past, present and future-are not the tenses of time; they are tenses of the mind. That which is no longer before the mind becomes the past. That which is before the mind is the present. And that which is going to be before the mind is the future. Past is that which is no longer before you. Future is that which is not yet before you. And present is that which is before you and is slipping out of your sight. Soon it will be past.

we who determine how quickly time passes.

Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it.

As you get older what you think was 10 years ago was actually 15 years ago.

I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different

I think time is elastic. There are moments in my life that are many, many years ago and yet I can conjure them as though it's a second ago. And there are other things that happened maybe last week that seem like ages ago.

I've only been gone a week," I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours. Which is ten thousand, eighty minutes. Which is six hundred thousand, for hundred seconds.

It's proven that how time moves for you depends on where you are in the universe. It's relative to beings and other places. But on the level of being here on earth, if you are aware in a moment, one second can last a year. And if you are unaware, your whole childhood, your whole life can pass by in six seconds. But it’s also such a thing that you can get lost in.

The problem with waiting for someone, whether that wait is an hour or a lifetime, is everyone's 'clock' is different. So what you might consider forever is only a little while to them, or vice versa.

Time has only a relative existence.

The more you've got, the shorter it feels.