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• Opportunity comes to pass-not to pause.

  James Wallace

  Opportunity

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• Sleep just gives the ego a little time out. It has to stay strong in order to be something that it isn't.

  Byron Katie

  Stay Strong, Sleep, Order

  Twitter post from Aug 10, 2013

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• The man who pauses in his honesty wants little of a villain.

  Henry Martyn

  Honesty, Men, Want

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• I am one of the lingering bad ones, and so do I slink away, and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause, and do work without knowing why - not surely for this brief world, and more sure it is not for heaven - and I ask what this message of Christ means.

  Emily Dickinson

  Mean, Knowing, Heaven

  Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.39, Harvard University Press

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• His virtues walked their narrow round,
  Nor made a pause, nor left a void;
  And sure the Eternal Master found
  The single talent well employed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Void, Talent, Virtue

  Samuel Johnson (1816). “The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.: With an Account of the Author's Life”, p.109

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• The future is always fairyland to the young. Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, and beautiful butterflies and tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause to admire and to taste, so eager are we to hasten to an opening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But by degrees, as we advance, the trees grow bleak; the flowers and butterflies fail, the fruits disappear, and we find we have arrived--to reach a desert waste.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Beautiful, Flower, Future

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• What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Art, Wish

  Walt Whitman (1998). “The Journalism: 1834-1846”, Peter Lang Pub Incorporated

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• There were some ages in Western history that have occasionally been called Dark. They were dark, it is said, because in them learning declined, and progress paused, and men labored under the pall of belief. A cause-effect relationship is frequently felt to exist between the pause and the belief.

  Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk

  Dark, Men, Progress

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• Pause awhile, And let my counsel sway you.

  William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare (1857). “The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best Authorities : with a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius”, p.234

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• All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Luck, Threshold, Delightful

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• Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Climbing, Hatred

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• Sometimes, you need to stop taking your medicine to let your body heal itself. Sometimes, you need to pause so you can move forward. Sometimes, you need to turn away from something so you can see why you fell in love in the first place.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Moving, Heal Itself, Medicine

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• Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Life, Positive, Happiness

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• It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take and wind up somewhere new. Just one false step, one pause, one detour, and you end up with new friends or a bad reputation or a boyfriend or a breakup. It's never occurred to me before; I've never been able to see it. And it makes me feel, weirdly, like maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.

  Lauren Oliver

  Change, Breakup, Wind

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• I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Needs, Disease, Crime

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• This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Sanctuary, Volume, Should

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• He knows that there are occasional pauses in the struggle.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Struggle, Inspiration

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• The path to realizing our dreams is never smooth. Invariably we encounter bends, turns, detours, and roadblocks. Sometimes our frustrations make us want to give up the journey, but frustrations signal the need to pause for introspection and redirection. Frustrations are promptings from God to search our souls even more deeply to find our power and purpose, and to live it. Frustrations tell us that our thoughts and actions are not yet in harmony with our desires.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Dream, Giving Up, Frustration

  Susan L. Taylor (2010). “Lessons in Living”, p.64, Anchor

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• Pause now to ask yourself the following question: 'Am I dreaming or awake, right now?' Be serious, really try to answer the question to the best of your ability and be ready to justify your answer.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Motivational, Dream, Trying

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• What can God have that gives him greater satisfaction than that a thousand times a day all his creatures should thus pause to withdraw and worship him in the heart.

  Brother Lawrence

  Christian, Heart, Giving

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• Never rush an emotion; everything in life has a rhythm, it is the pauses and silences that speak the truth.

  Michael Jackson

  Silence, Emotion, Speak

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• Meditation gives you the wherewithal to pause, observe how easily the mind can exaggerate the severity of a setback, and resist getting drawn into the abyss.

  Richard Davidson

  Giving, Meditation, Mind

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• There are almost no worldly signals reminding us to stay connected to the essence of who we are, to take care of ourselves along the way, to reach out to others, to pause to wonder, and to connect to that place from which everything is possible.

  Arianna Huffington

  Essence, Needs, Care

  "Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being,Wisdom, and Wonder". Book by Arianna Huffington, 2014.

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• It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.

  Bram Stoker

  Roots, Evil, Selfishness

  Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.125, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• There's a kind of slowness and inefficiency about rendering text in paint. We're in a world that's very fast, so things that slow you for a minute-give you pause-are good.

  Glenn Ligon

  Giving, World, Kind

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