Slow Living Quotes

“The island was working its magic, accepting her as one of its own.”
― Anne Allen, The Ghost of Seagull Cottage: Inspired by The Ghost and Mrs Muir

“I wanted to live how I really wanted, even if that meant turning against what everyone I knew was doing. I didn’t want to be close to the action or save on rent by sharing space anymore. I wanted to live somewhere with quiet views of the mountains, surrounded by nature and with plenty of time to sit, read, write and think.”
― Lucy Fuggle

“Our lives aren't meant to be fast and functional, like my weekday life had become. Our lives were created to be vibrant--enriched with the foods that make us feel like we’re truly living, to the very fullest.”
― Sarah Copeland, Every Day Is Saturday: Recipes and Strategies for Easy Cooking, Every Day of the Week

“Go slower—you’ll go further. Beautiful things aren’t rushed. A garden, a book, a work of art… they grow with time, care, and heart.”
― Angelika Regossi

“So much seems impossible until it happens. But perfect opportunities do exist and when they come into your life, you can either feel unworthy or not ready and push them away, or you can accept them with a heartfelt thank you. It’s so easy to say no to everything you’ve ever wanted. The hardest thing can be to say yes.”
― Lucy Fuggle

“Cook not to impress, but to restore.”
― Barbara O'Neill

“We believe in Christ-like love — universal, unconditional —
not as a distant idea,
but as a daily practice
that breathes through simplicity.”
― Phoenix Moon

“You can cover a lot of ground going slow when you’re on the right path.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“Slow, soulful living is all about coming back to your truth, the only guidance you’ll ever need. When you rush, you have the tendency to follow others. When you bring in mindfulness, you have the power to align with yourself.”
― Kris Franken, The Call of Intuition

“Because what is privilege if not an opportunity? Opportunity to make things better for everyone? Opportunity to see inequity and rectify it? Opportunity to take these immense and lucky gifts and make them count toward a better world for those who didn't win the arbitrary where-you-were-born lottery?”
― Brooke McAlary, Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World

“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

“We don’t want to live our lives on autopilot and wake up one day and think, “Man, where did my life go”? By being intentional about starting our day, we can be more productive, less stressed people by making time for the things that make us happy and fulfilled.”
― Carrie Scharf, Radiance and Ritual: Skincare and Self-Care for the Winter Season

“Turmeric, ginger, cinnamon — ancient remedies still whisper to us through food.”
― Barbara O'Neill

“O’ rainy nights,
forbear dripping water from the heavens above,
I am tripping over my feet in thy shallow violet lights,
and feeling the cold of the wind in my hair.”
― Hornbill Harcel, Where the Piopios Sing

“What if each choice about what we bring into our lives became a declaration of our values?”
― Ken Breniman, Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction

“Everything we were afraid to lose, we lost. Everything we were afraid would happen, happened.”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things

“I have seen hell at eye level. That's why I look at the stars, in the hope of finding heaven above my head. Having lived through darkness, I now understand the light.”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things

“Most days don't
announce their meaning.
They just leave
a feeling behind,
like wet footprints
on a terrace floor.
And you realize that
it was never
the big things,
never the victories,
but these
uncaptioned,
unrehearsed,
almost invisible
mercies
that keep
you
anchored to
the living.
The moments
that root you back
into this
fragile, brutal,
beautiful mess.
The experiences
that make you
belong,
without
ever asking
for permission.”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things

“Slow, soulful living is all about coming back to your truth, the only guidance you’ll ever need. When you rush, you have the tendency to follow others. When you bring in mindfulness, you have the power to align with yourself.”
― Kris Franken, The Call of Intuition: How to Recognize & Honor Your Intuition, Instinct & Insight

“Did slowing down and simplifying make our lives easier? Not really. And certainly not in the beginning. Simpler, yes, but not easier. What it did do was put the important things front and center.”
― Brooke McAlary, Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World

“Slow food, yoga, mindfulness, de Tiny House Movement, Marie Kondo, hernieuwde populariteit van volkstuinen, de opkomst van een minimalistische levensstijl; er zijn tal van trends die - hoe klein, imperfect en onbeholpen ze ook zijn - een afkeer belichamen van een consumptiesamenleving enkel gebaseerd op het najagen van steeds meer verlangens en materiële invloed. Ze tonen daarnaast niet alleen een groeiend ongemak met ons destructieve materialisme, maar ook een latent besef van het verlies van betrokkenheid met de spullen die we hebben en met de dingen die we doen.”
― Ruben Jacobs, De eeuw van Felix

“I've realized that in order to leave the world a better place than I found it - to be compassionate and caring - I need to be strong, I need to be vulnerable, I need to be healthy and vital and full of good stuff like kindness and generosity and laughter. Not because those things make me a Good Person but because if I have those things, I can turn around and share them.”
― Brooke McAlary, Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World

“When your mind rests, the world also rest.”
― Haemin Sunim, The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down 16-Month 2018-2019 Wall Calendar: September 2018-December 2019

“As the river sang on, soft and blind in the distance, not for the first nor last time was there the sense that Faha had slipped its moorings and slid away from the country, which sped on, without noticing the lack.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

“On the Lazarská tram stop, passengers' long shadows cast themselves onto the cobblestone cubes of the pavement.”
― Rajesh Dhawan, Not Much: Writings of Wonder in the Ordinary

“your life is
happening now
each moment
a precious gift
waiting for you
to receive it”
― Melinda Quesenberry, May You Know Peace: An Invitation to Embrace Your Life, As It Is

“I think
what happens to you
on most days
is not
what it mostly is,
but what happens
to you
randomly and candidly.

An unexpected road trip,
a moment of looking
at street vendors,
the first few drops of rain
hitting the ground
like a whisper,
an unexpected
lunar sighting
in its full moon phase,
a sparkle in the eyes
of children playing in the
apartment compound.

These are the things
that happen to you, not the
clocking in and out,
not the rehearsed hellos,
not the small talks
wrapped in the same old
wrappers of yesterday.

It's the stranger
who nods at you
like they have known your pain,
the dog that follows you
for three streets
and leaves without goodbye,
the last sip of
tea gone cold
while you were lost in thought,
a song on the radio
that you didn't know you
remembered but now
you are humming along like
it once saved your life.

It's the story the sky writes
when no one is looking,
clouds folding secrets
into their shapes,
the wind combing through your hair
like it belongs to
someone who still believes,
the ache that arrives
out of nowhere
and somehow
makes you
feel alive.”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things

“Life is too short to spend fitting others' molds.

Find great literature
and read good books
and drink good tea
and watch many sunsets
and get soaked in many rains
and find candid people to call your friends
and build a home within
and welcome people to your home
and be honest with yourself
and cook new foods
and try new cuisines
and visit more places
and capture more trees
and explore new cities
and build healthy hobbies
and learn for the love of learning
and live a good love
and fly away...

Life is short; make it worth every moment.”
― Sadia Hakim, A Poet From Alpha Centauri

“It is always these small things:
Little moments
and ordinary pieces of life
that entrap us for infinity.”
― Sadia Hakim, A Poet From Alpha Centauri

“Do I even have a dream life?
I just want to
live in the countryside,
nap under the shade of trees,
watch birds fly,
see stars shine,
experiment with food and plants,
drink healthy tea,
read good books,
and watch anime.”
― Sadia Hakim, The Weight of Tender Things