“Everyone tells a story about who they are in their own head. That story defines you, dictating all your actions and all your mistakes. If your own story is filled with guilt and fear and self-hatred, life can look pretty miserable. But, if you're very lucky, you might have a person who tells you a better story, one that takes up residence in your soul, speaking louder than the woeful tale of which you've convinced yourself. If you let it speak loudly within your heart, it becomes your passion and your purpose. And this is a good thing, the best of things. Because it is the very definition of love, nothing less.” By looking at only one place, you miss everything in all the other places! Look everywhere to see everything!” Sometimes a problem isn’t really a problem but the solution in disguise.” You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure. You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors. When you walk into it, then you see it in a completely different way. You discover it in a much slower, more majestic sort of way. Time is a valuable thing Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings Watch it count down to the end of the day The clock ticks life away We give our time away all day long, to emotions that gain us no advantages, to people who do not value our time, to inefficient habits. If you want to take back this time, you need to cut to the chase. Little drops of water, little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land. So the little minutes, humble though they be, Make the mighty ages of eternity. They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite. We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. Time ripens all things. Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. As the old saying goes, a man with one watch always knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never sure. How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear. It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. time - Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing - until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return. Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. Time is the great physician. One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. One of the best gifts my parents gave us was not only this awareness of time but what they did with that time. And having that awareness of time is a very special kind of perspective. It shapes my every day. Our time is brief, and it will pass no matter what we do. So let us have purpose in spending it. Let us spend it so that our time matters to each of us, and matters to all those whose lives we touch.