Franz Grillparzer Quotes

If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.

To go faster you must slow down.

If you don't have the right people around you and you're moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself.

We all strive for balance, often moving to extremes to find ourselves somewhere in the middle where we can sustainably exist in optimal inspiration. Working toward balance takes a lot of ingredients. We need courage, reflection, attention, action, and a push-and-pull relationship between effort and relaxation.

My whole life, I've wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.

Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. It's a balance.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

If you're an athlete and you completely focus on the body, you're missing other components. Similarly, if you're trying to broaden your mind but not also being attentive to your sense of humour and your spirit, then you're not going to grow and develop so fast.

If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea.

I'm a real 'go, go' person... I'd make myself crazy by pushing too hard. It's important to pull pack the reins a little bit and get in touch with what's inside.

Reflecting on where I came from helps me to appreciate and balance what I have now.

I'm very driven, and I always have been, but when do you prioritize self-care? It's so important because even to attain success, you must take time to slow down and get to know yourself first.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

One of the best things I've ever been told is that it's better for someone to tell you to slow down than to speed up.

Planning and reminiscing can be a good thing... in moderation.

Sometimes life has to tell you a little more forcefully: 'Slow down or change direction.'

The way I feel is that there is a balance in my life between being alone and interacting with people, between Being and doing.

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space.

In the end, we need two things to lead a balanced life - a sense of the world and a sense of ourselves; it's like breathing in and breathing out. And if you can only get to know the world by stepping out, and losing yourself in experience, you can only get to know the self by stepping back, and finding yourself in contemplation. One without the other leads to a kind of madness.

Take time for all things.

I like the state of being self-aware, it's interesting when you start to look at your own habits.

I've learned a lot. Being more compassionate.

What I'm trying to do is maintain some mindfulness about being popular - I wasn't so great at that last time around.

I couldn't tell you what was my last performance before I was incarcerated. I couldn't tell you what last meal I had, or anything of those things because I didn't think about it; it wasn't important to me. I think about it now. I can tell you everything I ate for the past week. I think that alone makes me a better person.