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Quotes
for
the Journey:
Hurry
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busyness
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Slow
down and take the time to really see. Take a moment to see
what is going on around you right now, right where you are.
You may be missing something wonderful.
-J.
Michael Thomas
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The
feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life
and having no time. It is, rather, born of a vague fear that we are
wasting our life. -Eric Hoffer
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The
Rabbi of Berdichev saw a man
running down the street. He asked the man, "Why are
you hurrying so?"
"I'm rushing to find my
livelihood," the man
answered.
"And how do you know," the
rabbi asked, "that
your livelihood
is running ahead of you? Maybe it's behind you, and
all you need
to do is stop running
and it will catch up to you."
traditional Chassidic
Jewish story
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If you could once make
up your mind never to
undertake more work
than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without
hurry or flurry. . . . and if the instant you feel yourself growing
nervous and out of breath, you would
stop and take breath, you would
find
this simple common-sense rule doing for you what
no prayers or
tears could ever accomplish. -Elizabeth Prentiss
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Half
our life is spent trying to find something to do with
the time we
have rushed through life trying to save.
-Will Rogers
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are in such haste to be doing, to be writing, to be gathering gear,
to make our voice audible a moment in the derisive silence of eternity,
that we forget one thing, of which these are but the parts—namely, to
live. We fall in love, we drink hard, we run to and fro upon the earth
like frightened sheep.
And now you are to ask yourself if, when all is done,
you would not have been better to sit by the fire at home, and be happy
thinking. To sit still and contemplate . . . is this not to know both wisdom and
virtue,
and to dwell with happiness? -Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| Recently I've begun to slow down and do things one at a
time. I'm
inspired--and simultaneously exasperated--by my son who, like
most six-year-olds, likes to take his time to get to where he wants to be.
It's as if he truly savors the path more than the destination. As I
prod him
to "hurry up," he slows down to relish his journey even more.
-Leslie Levine |
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In
the deep jungles of Africa, a traveler was making a long trek.
Natives had been
engaged from a tribe to carry the loads. The first day they marched
rapidly
and went far. The traveler had high hopes of a speedy journey.
But the second morning these jungle tribesmen refused to move. For some strange reason they just sat and rested. On inquiry as to
the reason for this strange behavior, the traveler was informed that they
had gone too fast the first day, and that they were now waiting
for their souls to catch up with their bodies.
This whirling rushing life which so many of us live does for us
what that first march did for those jungle tribesmen. The
difference: they knew
what they needed to restore life's balance; too often we do not.
-Lettie
Cowman
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Perhaps
it would be a good idea, fantastic as it sounds, to muffle every
telephone, stop every motor and halt all activity for an hour some day
to
give people a chance to ponder for a few minutes on what it is all
about,
why they are living, and what they really want.
-James Truslow Adams |
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are naturally reverent beings, but much of our natural reverence
has been torn away from us because we have been born into a world
that hurries.
There is no time to be reverent with the earth or with each
other.
We are all hurrying into progress.
And for all our hurrying
we lose sight of our true nature a little more each day.
-Macrina Wiederkehr |
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| When
I'm hurrying, my focus also shifts to time and how much of it is
going by how quickly. I don't focus on doing the best job I
can or making sure that everything's done correctly--I just focus
on the process of trying to hurry things up. We all see it
and hear it time and again--when you hurry, you make mistakes, and
those mistakes probably would have been avoided if you had taken
your time to do the job right.
-Tom Walsh |
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