Slow Down Quotes

“Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

“Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.”
― Oriah Mountain Dreamer, The Dance: Moving To the Rhythms of Your True Self

“And so taking the long way home through the market I slow my pace down. It doesn't come naturally. My legs are programmed to trot briskly and my arms to pump up and down like pistons, but I force myself to stroll past the stalls and pavement cafes. To enjoy just being somewhere, rather than rushing from somewhere, to somewhere. Inhaling deep lungfuls of air, instead of my usual shallow breaths. I take a moment to just stop and look around me. And smile to myself.
For the first time in a long time, I can, quite literally, smell the coffee.”
― Alexandra Potter, The Two Lives of Miss Charlotte Merryweather

“Perfection of effort is not required, by the way. It is the consistency of attempting to work these tools that brings the progress. It’s like anything else. If I want to tone muscle, lifting a ten-pound weight a few times every day will move me toward my goal much quicker than hoisting a fifty-pound barbell once a week. Yes, it really is true: “Slow and steady wins the race.” Just try a little, every day. You’ll see.”
― Holly Mosier

“LSD stands out for learning to slow down.”
― Santosh Kalwar

“If people just took it a day at a time, they'd be a lot happier.”
― Richard Bachman

“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.”
― Lindsey Rietzsch, Successful Failures: Recognizing the Divine Role That Opposition Plays in Life's Quest for Success

“Tea is difficult to drink quickly, because it is hot and needs time to steep, and so a cup of tea forces you to slow down and think as you wait for it to cool and become more flavorful.”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

“Con calma y piensa, take your time and think, should be an adage that you apply in your entire life.”
― Art Rios, Let's Talk: ...About Making Your Life Exciting, Easier, And Exceptional

“In the age of speed, there’s something to be found in slowing down.”
― Kristen Butler

“If you are tired, slow down, don't back down.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Journal prompt: What would you regret about today when you wake up tomorrow? I would regret not appreciating the slowness that today was trying to gift me. I’m always so quick to want to leap into the new, that I often don’t give myself time to soak in the little things that make this moment right here so special. Then one day, though it’s always so hard to believe, I’ll likely think to myself (as I always do), how I miss this pace and all the things I’d give to live it again. So here it is… your reminder to take a little time to enjoy the quiet and the slow drip of time before everything as you know it right this second somehow melts into another, “where did this month go? It flew by!”.”
― Jacqueline Roche

“From the Tsimtsum all I had seen were dolphins. I had assumed that the Pacific, but for passing schools of fish, was a sparsely inhabited waste of water. I have learned since that cargo ships travel too quickly for fish. You are as likely to see sea life from a ship as you are to see wildlife in a forest from a car on a highway. Dolphins, very fast swimmers, play about boats and ships much like dogs chase cars; they race along until they can no longer keep up. If you want to see wildlife, it is on foot, and quietly, that you must explore a forest. It is the same with the sea. You must stroll through the Pacific at walking pace, so to speak, to the wealth and abundance that it holds.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“You are a songbird wreathed in flames, but you need to learn how to slow down and breathe if you're ever going to learn how to fly.”
― Courtney M. Privett, The Crystal Lattice

“Which is better?
To have heard the sound of children’s laughter?
To have listened to the song of birds at morning’s peak?
To have beat your fingers
in rhythm to the cities traffic?
to have giggled at the whispers of your lover’s sweet…
nothings?
Or never hearing any of those things at all?
Therefore never, forever craving those things that was?
Which is better?

Aw deaf man.
Can you even hear me?”
― N'Zuri Za Austin

“Sometimes the answers are the most basic of feelings. God speaks to us this way too. Your conscience. Good, bad, you already possess these answers. Silence too can be an answer, perhaps quiet is there to help you slow down and thoughtfully consider your environment for a moment.”
― Aegelis, X Captain Ruik's Adventure

“Some people slammed their doors, others didn't,” he told me in his acquired, patient tone. “I had to deal with a lot of rejection in a way I never had before. Some days, I ate very little and walked slowly. It was a discipline I needed away from a world where I could have everything.”
― Steven Keith Hunter, Relish In the Tread

“Pause, reflect, admire, take heed of your ways—so these ancient tablets are always advising and exhorting us. One leaves the church marveling at the spacious days when unknown citizens could occupy so much room with their bones and confidently request so much attention for their virtues when we—behold how we jostle and skip and circumvent each other in the street, how sharply we cut corners, how nimbly we skip beneath motor cars. The mere process of keeping alive needs all our energy. We have no time, we were about to say, to think about life or death either, when suddenly we run against the enormous walls of St. Paul’s.”
― Virginia Woolf, The London Scene: Six Essays on London Life

“Better slow down than bog down!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Sometimes, just sometimes you would feel like leaving everything and finding a safe place, somewhere distant very very distant, like to get lost somewhere, to entirely disappear, take that call, disappear for a while, the World isn't running anywhere.
Who knows, you might find a cloud floating on a morning mist, carrying the missing pieces of your heart, lost in the chaos of Time, in the mad conundrum of Life, in the crazy hunt for a fairytale, in everything that needed you to leave, to leave for a safe place in Yourself.

Love & Light, always
- Debatrayee”
― Debatrayee Banerjee

“Once I slowed down and focused most of my attention on training my mind, my life transformed dramatically. I realized that overworking myself wasn’t close to being the answer.”
― Robin S. Baker

“I imagined the world stopping—taking a moment to breathe and listen.”
― Kailey Bright, Unity

“Hiding a stutter doesn't make it go away. Slowing down does the magic.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“Life remains beautiful when we see it as a journey. It falls apart when we treat it as a race.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Be not rushed by the tide of life. Take life in sips and little portions.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

“Don't rush through life.
Pause, and let the stillness lead you.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“I watch a small tree squirrel,
basking in the early morning sun,
in my garden, and smile.
No longer do I feel
the urge to chase life,
nor fear being left behind.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya, Slipping into another world

“If every day is a marathon, the finish line will come faster than expected.”
― Wyatt B Pringle, Jr.

“Cuando se trataba de Emmy, estaba jugando con fuego pero por ella caminaría feliz hacia las llamas. Y tendría una sonrisa en la cara todo el maldito tiempo!”
― Lyla Sage, Soul Searching

“Hizo que quisiera agarrarla del cuello y atraer sus labios a los míos”
― Lyla Sage, Soul Searching