We get lots of requests for different sayings that can be penned onto clocks and several PPIO contributors have sent in verses that they have used . A big thank you to Celee Evans, Dorothy Trent, Marie Walters, Patricia Burt and Marjorie" from Mesquite, NV" for sending these in ....

From Celee Evans:

• It may take a lifetime to become the person you've always wanted to be.
• No artist is ahead of her time...... she is her time!
• One little hour of joy for me is worth more than a dull eternity.
• Art is long, but time is fleeting
• The bird of time has but a little way to flutter... and the bird is on the wing.
• Give of yourself to the world and, in time, the world will give you your best self back
• The secret to life is to live a long time without growing old.
• To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven. (Ecclesiastes 3-4) ...(also sent in by Marie Walters.)
• I'll gather joy's luxuriant flowers and gild with bliss my precious hours.
• A full life is measured not by how long you live but by how well.
• Take time to play. It is the secret of perpetual youth.
  Take time to read. It is the fountain of wisdom.
  Take time to pray. It is the greatest gift on earth.
  Take time to love and be loved. It is a God-given privilege.
  Take time to be friendly. It is the road to happiness.
  Take time to laugh. It is the music of the soul.
  Take time to give. It is too short a day to be selfish.
  Take time to work. It is the price of success.
• Friends who take time to care are really angels, unaware.
• Time still, as it flies, adds increase to truth and gives to your mind what it steals from your youth!
• Who'll say that moments we use thus are wasted? Such sweet drops of time only flow to be tasted.
• Time flies over us but leaves its shadow behind.
• Another place, another time is here and now.
• Somewhere in time, the moments of your life belong to another.
• The time of your life is now, so you deserve to have it!
• Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind.
• One life is a gleam of time between two eternities.
• This is your time. This is your dance. Live every moment. Leave nothing to chance.
• We can make our lives sublime and, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.
• Friends are the other family you choose in your lifetime.
• Take time to be alone with yourself and truly like the company you keep!
• God speaks to the person who takes time to listen
• It only takes a little time to go from average to outstanding. Find those moments today.

From Dorothy Trent: ( also sent in by Marjorie in Mesquite, Nevada )

• Nothing is better than time to spend... laughing and talking with you.....my friend.
• A hug delights and warms and charms. That must be why God gave us arms.