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 you're always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you're in? Slow down and enjoy the moment you're in and live your life to the fullest.”
― Nanette Mathews

“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

“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

“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

“Sometimes, the most beautiful truths aren’t ahead but beside us, quietly waiting to be noticed, to be cherished, to be seen”
― AshRawArt

“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

“SLOW DOWN... Sit in stillness, Listen, Observe, Wonder, Dream, Omit, Worry Less, Nourish... BODY, MIND & SOUL”
― AshRawArt

“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

“When we slow down, we don’t lose time - we find MORE of it. MORE wonder in the simplest moments, MORE depth in the quiet, MORE beauty in what we once rushed past”
― AshRawArt

“Life is not just about moving forward; it’s about noticing what’s been there all along... waiting to be seen”
― AshRawArt

“Life isn’t a race to the next destination - it’s a revelation”
― AshRawArt

“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

“When we simplify, we create room for deeper presence, gentler rhythms and moments that whisper soul-deep”
― AshRawArt

“Live slower, listen deeper and open your heart to the still, small voice that speaks in silence”
― AshRawArt

“The soul is most at home where earth and heaven brush edges, in dappled light, bare hands and the hush of growing things.”
― AshRawArt

“There's a rhythm older than rush. A sacred slowness written into the seasons.”
― AshRawArt

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