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    Francis de Sales
    “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?”
    Francis de Sales

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

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

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    James Fenimore Cooper
    “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”
    James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans

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    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “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.”
    Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco

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    “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.”
    J. B. Phillips

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    Todd Stocker
    “Busyness chokes deep thinking.”
    Todd Stocker, Refined: Turning Pain into Purpose

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    Alberto Caeiro
    “I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.
    Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.
    If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.

    (6/20/1919)”
    Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro

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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.”
    Robert A. Bradley, Husband-Coached Childbirth: The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth

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    C.S. Lewis
    “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
    C.S. Lewis

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    C.S. Lewis
    “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
    C.S. Lewis

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

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    C.S. Lewis
    “To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
    C.S. Lewis

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    Elbert Hubbard
    “God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
    Elbert Hubbard

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    Nicolas Chamfort
    “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
    Nicolas Chamfort



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