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“Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
What is anything in life compared to peace of soul?”
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Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
What is anything in life compared to peace of soul?”
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“Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy 鈥� to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.”
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“Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.”
― Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
― Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.”
― One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
― One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.”
― All Things Considered
― All Things Considered

“I鈥檓 in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren鈥檛, either.
Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.
If where I want to go is far away, I鈥檓 not there in an instant.
(6/20/1919)”
― The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.
If where I want to go is far away, I鈥檓 not there in an instant.
(6/20/1919)”
― The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
“God schedules a birthday, not man.”
― Husband-Coached Childbirth: The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth
― Husband-Coached Childbirth: The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth

“There's always a way if you're not in a hurry.”
― The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari
― The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari

“The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste”
― The Last of the Mohicans
― The Last of the Mohicans

“Man hurries, God does not. That is why man's works are uncertain and maimed, while God's are flawless and sure. My eyes welling with tears, I vowed never to transgress this eternal law again. Like a tree I would be blasted by wind, struck by sun and rain, and would wait with confidence; the long-desired hour of flowering and fruit would come.”
― Report to Greco
― Report to Greco

“Don't be in a hurry to achieve your dreams. Take a day to play with your kids and relax - your dreams will still be there tomorrow.”
― Successful Failures: Recognizing the Divine Role That Opposition Plays in Life's Quest for Success
― Successful Failures: Recognizing the Divine Role That Opposition Plays in Life's Quest for Success
“She had the feeling, the tingling, lingering sense that something or someone life altering was just over the horizon. She had no idea what it was, but she wanted to rush headlong to bring it to her.”
― Autumnal Dancer
― Autumnal Dancer
“It is refreshing, and salutary, to study the poise and quietness of Christ. His task and responsibility might well have driven a man out of his mind. But He was never in a hurry, never impressed by numbers, never a slave of the clock.”
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“We repeatedly tell patients we are not in a hurry; there are no trains to catch and we don't care when the baby comes, only how! A doctor who is in a hurry does not belong in the field of obstetrics. As my chief pointed out, 'An obstetrician should have a big rear end and the good sense to sit calmly thereupon and let nature take its course.”
― Husband-Coached Childbirth: The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth
― Husband-Coached Childbirth: The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth

“In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library.”
― Journey to the Center of the Earth
― Journey to the Center of the Earth

“Though the urge to hurry was beginning to beat through my brain, I knew that was the one thing I couldn't do. Not of I wanted to save lives.”
― Full Moon Rising
― Full Moon Rising

“A warrior of the Light is never in a hurry.
Time works in his favor; he learns to master his impatience and avoids acting without thinking.”
― Warrior of the Light
Time works in his favor; he learns to master his impatience and avoids acting without thinking.”
― Warrior of the Light

“Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him.”
― My Utmost for His Highest
― My Utmost for His Highest
“We move much too fast, and too frequently, to pause to savor landscapes or avoid disfiguring clutter.”
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“In human affairs of danger and delicacy successful conclusion is sharply limited by hurry.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden

“Get busy with the issue! In this regard, time is not friendly鈥or should it be.”
― From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
― From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“That's the funny thing about old people: they never seem in a hurry. I think old people have figured out that being five minutes late really doesn't matter much.”
― What Flowers Remember
― What Flowers Remember

“It was clearly a prisoner's craftwork; that is, the most painstaking work in the world, for prisoners have nowhere to hurry to.”
― The First Circle
― The First Circle
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