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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