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THE BEAUTY OF TIME WORTH SAVING: 10 IDEAS

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10 Beautiful Images & Ideas about Time! | Daylight Savings Time

Tomorrow, we turn back our clocks, losing sleep in our quest to maximize daylight savings time. And as we grumble, we feel the preciousness of time. We feel its limits. We feel its importance. And we crave more beautiful moments.

We all wish we had more time for the people, experiences and things we love. We all wish we managed time better. We all wish we had the power to speed through some times and to slow down other times.

The space time continuum expands of view of time as we look up and watch the stars slide across the universe. Songs from our past remind us of times, both happy and sad. From old classics like “As Time Goes By,” from Casablanca, to newer songs from Stephen Sondheim’s lyrics for West Side Story, Van Morrison, and REO Speedwagon, time ticks through our minds as we listen. Picasso and Tennyson also weigh in.

We’ve gathered some meaning and memory from images and quotes, we curated them for beauty, and we’ve presented them below.

A person sits on a rock and gazes at star trails in the night sky.

“There's a time for us,

Some day a time for us,

Time together with time to spare,

Time to learn, time to care,

Some day!”

-- Stephen Sondheim, “Somewhere,” from “West Side Story.”

Beautiful swirling clock face on old fashioned clock with Roman numerals.

“Heart and soul

Body and mind
Meet me on the river of time.”

-- Van Morrison, “River of Time.”

Old stone garden clock with angel.

“It's still the same old story

A fight for love and glory

A case of do or die.

The world will always welcome lovers

As time goes by.”

-- Herman Hupfeld, “As Time Goes By,” from “Casablanca.”

Detail from a painting showing a woman and white horses in the sky.

"We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams."

-- Jeremy Irons Pink roses bloom in the foreground as a woman walks through the garden in the background.

“If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I'd walk through an endless garden of roses.”

-- Alfred Tennyson

Woman holds a little girl’s hand as they look at a monumental fountain.

“It takes a long time to become young.”

-- Pablo Picasso

Colorful butterfly perched on a yellow flower.

“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”

-- Rabindranath Tagore

White egret flying against a blue sky with white clouds.

“I believe it’s time for me to fly.”

-- Kevin Patrick Cronin, REO Speedwagon, “Time for Me to Fly.”

Blue hydrangea blossoms in foreground of three women sitting at a tea party.

“Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.”

-- Letitia Baldrige

Brother and sister peer out from a pile of autumn leaves.

“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”

-- Heraclitus, “Fragments.”

Children playing in a fountain.

Read more about Beautiful Time in 10 Watches With Beautiful Surprises.

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IMAGE CREDITS:

Image: by Alice Popkorn. “End of time.”
Image: by JiKang Lee. “Time.”
Image: by Prairie Kittin. “Time After Time.”
Image: by Alice Popkorn. “Guardian of time.”
Image: by Andy Ihnatko. “Time Flies.” A detail of "The Triumph Of Time," mural by John Elliott.
Image: by UncleBucko. “Rose Garden.”
Image: by Matt Zhang. “Timeless.”
Image: by Peter Gorges. “Last days of summer.”
Image: by cuatrok77. “Great Egret.”
Image: by UK in Italy. “Race for the Cure Tea Party.”
Image: by Alex Bainton. “Siblings in autumn.”
Image: by Stéphanie Vé. “Their idea worked out!.”
Image: Vincent Garcia. “Time to sleep.”
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Image: by electricnude. “Time river.”