Slowing Down Quotes

“Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.”
― May Sarton

“If you go out for several hours into a place that is wild, your mind begins to slow down, down, down. What is happening is that the clay of your body is retrieving its own sense of sisterhood with the great clay of the landscape.”
― John O'Donohue, Walking in Wonder: Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World

“Slow and steady wins the race, not the person who wants to climb the whole stairs in one stride.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“One of the many reasons why gardens are increasingly precious to us in this day and age is that they help us to escape from the tyranny of speed. Our skies are streaked with jets, our roads have turned to race-tracks, and in the cities the crowds rush to and fro as though the devil were at their heels. But as soon as we open the garden gate, Time seems almost to stand still, slowing down to the gentle ticking of the Clock of the Universe.”
― Beverley Nichols, Forty Favourite Flowers

“You have to be able to slow down enough to switch your focus away from all the ways things could be better, to know how good they already are.”
― Katherine Ellison, Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention

“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

“When I was sixteen I read ten books a week: E.E. Cummings, William Faulkner, Henry James, Hart Crane, John Steinbeck. I thought I progressed in literature by reading faster and faster--but reading more is reading less. I learned to slow down.”
― Donald Hall, A Carnival Of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety

“Slowing down is not always easy, but there are many gems to be found at a gentler pace.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“Simple things. We want to be able to appreciate a beautiful day. We long for that pulse-pounding joy of looking across a room and seeing our friends. We want to capture some of that childlike wonder where the world is a mystery, and every time we step out the door, there's an adventure just waiting around the corner.”
― Jim Brickman, Simple Things Sheet Music

“COURTESY

We never talk ill of a departed soul; our world
would be a much nicer place if we extended the
same courtesy to those who are yet to depart.”
― Amar Ochani, Inner Explorations of a Seeker

“Life is about time. Spend more time than you do money on others. Give time more than any other gift. Also, take time when you need to. Take time for you when you need it. Sometimes time is all we have with the people we love the most. I ask you to slow down in life. To take your time, but don't waste it.”
― Emma Heatherington, The Legacy of Lucy Harte

“In this worried rush, nobody stopped to see the sun appear over rooftops. Unnoticed beauty lost in the need to be everywhere, in every waking moment.”
― Mala Naidoo, What Change May Come

“When you can’t run and deliver like you used to, make sure your letters still bleed with imagery under the stampede of your wild thoughts and the untamed nature of your signature energy.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“I wanted to see the light change on the horizon, to notice the pinky-orange alpenglow illuminating the mountains as the day fell away and to know the comings and goings of the birds. I wanted to have places to explore and escape to. I wanted to live on my terms, no matter what people thought of that. And I managed, somehow, to actually do it.”
― Lucy Fuggle, Mountain Song: A Journey to Finding Quiet in the Swiss Alps

“We tend to assign a lesser social value to those whose doing cannot be enslaved into a given output. We should look to them as sacred guides out of the bondage of productivity. Instead, we withhold social status and capital, and we neglect to acknowledge that theirs is a liberation we can learn from.”
― Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

“If you drive fast enough on a rough road you glide over the bumps and skim the pot holes - it's a smooth ride. If you charge without fear over boulders and beach debris it's the same as running on hard flat sand. The only problem is slowing down, or stopping.”
― Matt Padwick, Running Contra Diction

“I have not quite come to terms with the brevity that people crave as they dash through life, flitting from one thing to another. ~ “Vindication Across Time”
― Mala Naidoo, Vindication Across Time

“Children need more time to be simply children and adults need more time to remember their childhood and how they once played.”
― Ellen Palestrant, Have You Ever Had a Hunch? The Importance of Creative Thinking

“What if practicing peace is slowing down and realizing there’s more to see?”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, Peace Is a Practice: An Invitation to Breathe Deep and Find a New Rhythm for Life

“Sometimes, it's essential to take a moment to slow down and look at how far you've come. Like literally breathe in all the healing, all the changes that your Soul has embraced so far, the walk that once looked difficult and yet you went on with it, through it, only to come this far. It is essential to just remember how every small step you took led you to this moment, where some things that once bothered you do not find that trigger anymore, the places, the songs, the words, the elements of this material world that once brought you to your numbness have now lost its strong foothold on you, not that sometimes they won't leap in to make you feel a little vulnerable for the moment but essentially they've lost their ground. It's essential to appreciate that, to pat yourself on that.
While doing so, we would find the simplest understanding that in Life, we cannot have everything. Some things will get lost in the way, and some dreams will be left unfulfilled but the best part is, there is always going to be something to fill its place. All the things you've lost would lead you to all the things you will gain in the process. And maybe, just maybe if you take time to listen to your Soul, the things you would gain in the process of losing what you thought was necessary, are actually the real necessities of your Soul. It is when you literally Stop moving in your Mind and walk past its edges that you would know the truest meaning that was there all along, that in this Human Existence, we are not meant to have it all, to have all the dreams and yearnings accomplished, to have it all sorted, some things would always be left undone, and somewhere that holds the beauty of this Human Life, to know how far we've come and to find a sense of peace even in an insatiable mind, to know that We don't need to have it all figured out, but to hold space for Grace and Gratitude, to know Kindness for every passer by and most importantly for our own self. And to know, that Life is a Labyrinth of a winding Walk, and just like going ahead is necessary, taking a pause would actually replenish your will to keep taking the forward step in your journey. That Slowing Down doesn't actually leave you bereft of your Winning spirit, but lets you appreciate the Simplest Knowledge that Life is never about Winning or Losing but about Becoming the Core Self by unbecoming everything that this World soaked you in.

Love & Light, always
- Debatrayee”
― Debatrayee Banerjee

“Just a bit of slowing down puts you back into a blissful world.”
― Hiral Nagda

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

“Unsubscribe from busy - choose slow, choose soul, choose love”
― AshRawArt

“If orangutans can treat their rest like an art form, maybe we can put a little more effort into our sleep routines too.”
― Ken Breniman, Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction

“These creatures don’t feel guilty about rest, so why should we?”
― Ken Breniman, Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction

“In the hush beyond hurry, beauty begins”
― 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

“The gentler the rhythm, the louder the whispers of grace”
― AshRawArt

“When you fast-forward through life, you are likely to skip the vital parts. When you move in slow motion, the path becomes crystal clear.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions