Slowing Down Being Present Quotes & Sayings

Maybe it's the way you talk, or the color of your skin, or the color of your underwear, or whether you've got a clip-on around your neck. Assholes will find a reason to fuck with you. — Anthony Breznican

But if the saleslady means what she says - and since you have gone through any number of such styles in the past - then it must follow that the other articles in the past were also you and are no longer. How can that be? It could only be because some sort of consumption takes place. The nought which is you has devoured the style and been sustained for a while as a non-you until the style is emptied out by the noughting self. — Walker Percy

Book-club night stopped abruptly when Caleb died. For almost a year and a half, as if by some type of tacit agreement, they all knew they couldn't be in the same room at the same time. It was as if their collective grief would multiply, rebounding endlessly within any closed space like an image in a house of mirrors, until the pain would overcome them all. — Francis Guenette

A mind that is racing over worries about the future or recycling resentments from the past is ill equipped to handle the challenges of the moment. By slowing down, we can train the mind to focus completely in the present. Then we will find that we can function well whatever the difficulties. That is what it means to be stress-proof: not avoiding stress but being at our best under pressure, calm, cool, and creative in the midst of the storm. — Eknath Easwaran

With a book, she could at least visit with people, even if it was vicariously, even if they didn't exist beyond someone's imagination. — Lorraine Heath

No one really knows enough to be a pessimist. — Norman Cousins

It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced. — Homer

Most of the time I liked being in charge of my life, thrived on it, in fact. But occasionally, when I was tired or unhappy. I'd find myself thinking how nice it would be to let someone else run the show, at least for a while. — Alice Steinbach

I will always encourage people to seek out the word of God, because I do believe that THAT is where truth really comes from. I believe that when things go wrong if you instead of looking at that as a negative, you choose to rejoice in all things. It's the hardest thing in the world but I think that that is what ultimately leads to happiness. — Matty Mullins

Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, connecting people. — Brion James

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment. — Morihei Ueshiba

Sleep is death without the responsibility. — Fran Lebowitz

We learn to become more empathic when we slow down, become present, and are fully committed to understanding another person's uniqueness. — Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one's style, both of speaking and writing. — Henry David Thoreau

Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of. — Stephen Hawking