“Just 10 minutes listening to birdsong can boost your mental health and well-being.”
— California Polytechnic State University (2020)
“No good comes from hurrying.”
— Yiddish Proverb
“Haste is blind and improvident.”
— Titus Livius (Livy)
“He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“When you feel the need to hurry,remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.”
— Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“Take time to laugh.It is the music of the soul.”
— Anonymous
” “Hurry up” ranks right up there with “you need to” as a destroyer of our humanity.”
— Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
— A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
“Patience is an ever present alternative to the mind’s endemic restlessness and impatience. Scratch the surface of impatience and what you will find lying beneath it, subtly or not so subtly, is anger. It’s the strong energy of not wanting things to be the way they are and blaming someone (often yourself) or something for it.This doesn’t mean you can’t hurry when you have to.It is possible even to hurry patiently, mindfully,moving fast because you have chosen to.”
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
“To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.”
— Gail Sheehy
“Conscious evolution begins as we take responsibility for clearing our own obstructions.”
— Dan Millman
“When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.”
— Bernie S. Siegel
“I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy . . . you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in.”
— Katherine Mansfield
“If we don’t forgive ourselves for our mistakes, and others for the wounds they have inflicted upon us, we end up crippled with guilt. And the soul cannot grow under a blanket of guilt, because guilt is isolating, while growth is a gradual process of reconnection to ourselves, to other people, and to a larger whole.”
— Joan Borysenko
“Light burdens borne far become heavy.”
— French proverb
“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.”
— Woody Allen
“If you’re prosperous in soul, you’ll be prosperous in whole.”
— Mark Victor Hansen
“Your path is your path. Don’t compare it to others. Everyone’s timeline, obstacles, and triumphs are different. Just keep looking forward.”
— Jon Gordon
“What seeds am I sowing in my life today, which fruit I will reap in the future? “
— Unknown
“You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you’ve climbed a mountain.”
-— Tom Hiddleston
“Outward change comes after we change from within.”
— Bob Proctor