Slow Down Quotes

• Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence neither speed up nor slow down add to nor diminish it is an imponderably valuable gift.

  Maya Angelou

  Gratitude, Time, Add

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Apr 30, 2013

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  You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

  Walter Hagen

  Inspirational, Life, Attitude

  The Walter Hagen Story ch. 32 (1956)

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• Slowing down reminds you that the journey is supposed to be fun.

  Anne Bancroft

  Fun, Journey, Supposed To Be

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• Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

  Eddie Cantor

  Life, Missing You, Retirement

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• Slow down. Calm down. Don't worry. Don't hurry. Trust the process.

  Alexandra Stoddard

  Patience, Worry, Calm

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• For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

  Lily Tomlin

  Inspirational, Breakup, Stress

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• Not causing harm requires staying awake. Part of being awake is slowing down enough to notice what we say and do. The more we witness our emotional chain reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain. It becomes a way of life to stay awake, slow down, and notice.

  Pema Chodron

  Emotional, Down And, Way

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.48, Shambhala Publications

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• The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

  Louis L'Amour

  Missing, Ends, Trails

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “Ride the Dark Trail”, p.53, Bantam

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• The best thing that you can do to deal with these high speed times is to slow down, inwardly, to take a little more time for meditation, a little more time to enjoy your morning cup of coffee or tea, and to look around at the people in your life with a little more love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Morning, Coffee, Buddhism

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• It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

  Eileen Caddy

  Relationship, Going Away, Important

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• There really is a kind of insane beauty around us all the time. It's just a question of learning to slow down, take a deep breath and meet the moment.

  Graham Nash

  Insane, Kind, Moments

  Graham Nash (2004). “Eye to Eye: Photographs”, Steidl / Edition7L

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• There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and a crowded schedule, between having no place to put possessions and having no priorities for our life. These are precious clues. They remind us to slow down, to live in the present, to reduce the desires that drain our vitality, to clarify priorities so we can give our time and attention to what matters most. Tragically, in the press of modern life, we have managed to get backwards one of life's most vital truths: people are to be loved; things are to be used.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Love, Relationship, Truth

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• Slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.

  Greg Mortenson

  Business, Important, Down And

  Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin (2009). “Three Cups of Tea: Young Readers Edition: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time”, p.79, Penguin

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• It's all perfect, this Universe we are in. Slow down and enjoy it all.

  Wayne Dyer

  Perfect, Down And, Enjoy

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• Slow down you're doing fine
  You can't be everything you want to be before your time.

  Billy Joel

  Want, Fine

  Song: Vienna, Album: The Stranger, 1977

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• Slowing down is sometimes the best way to speed up.

  Mike Vance

  Way, Sometimes, Speed

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• People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch up with them.

  Harold S. Kushner

  People, Giving, Down And

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• Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way.

  Douglas Pagels

  Success, Sarcastic, Stress

  Douglas Pagels (2005). “Required Reading for All Teenagers: Or at Least for One who is Very Important to Me!”, p.54, Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.

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• Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.

  Tim Ferriss

  Life, Motivational, Differences

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• Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you're no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn't just a means to an end but a unique event in itself. To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountains which sustain life, not the top.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Mean, Unique, Reality

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• If you complain about the world moving too fast, slow down.

  Michael Dolan

  Moving, Haste, Complaining

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• Death is just nature's way of telling you to slow down.

  Dick Sharples

  Funny, Death, Way

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• If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of creativity. It has allowed me to open up -- to know that there's life under the earth and that I have to let it come through me in a new way. Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Art, Creativity, Ideas

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• I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away. The truth is in the present moment. The great paradox is that when I'm really able to do that, time slows down and opens up. Time feels suddenly and inexplicably without end.

  Dani Shapiro

  Past, Wish, Want

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• Feel the energy of your inner body. Immediately mental noise slows down or ceases. Feel it in your hands, your feet, your abdomen, your chest. Feel the life that you are, the life that animates the body. The body then becomes a doorway, so to speak, into a deeper sense of aliveness underneath the fluctuating emotions and underneath your thinking.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Hands, Feet

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.21, New World Library

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