“Spending more time with friends and family costs nothing. Nor does walking, cooking, meditating, making love, reading or eating dinner at the table instead of in front of the television. Simply resisting the urge to hurry is free.”
― In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed
― In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed
“Nerves are God's gift to you, reminding you that your life is not passing you by,
Make friend with the butterflies.
Welcome them when they come,
revel in them,
enjoy them,
and if they go away,
do whatever it takes to put yourself in a position where they return.
Better to have a stomach full of butterflies than to feel like life is passing you by.”
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Make friend with the butterflies.
Welcome them when they come,
revel in them,
enjoy them,
and if they go away,
do whatever it takes to put yourself in a position where they return.
Better to have a stomach full of butterflies than to feel like life is passing you by.”
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“Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.”
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“We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and the opportunity of living in the moment when the critique of factory farming broke into the popular consciousness. We are the ones of whom it will be fairly asked, What did you do when you learned the truth about eating animals?”
― Eating Animals
― Eating Animals
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