Melody Beattie Quotes

I'm a pretty calm person. That came from living in Italy for a long time. Nothing works, nothing is on time. You have to learn to deal with it.

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

We have time, there's no big rush.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

There's nothing wrong with things taking time.

I don't like to rush things.

I am in no rush to get anywhere.

If you ever wondered why fishing is probably the most popular sport in this country, watch that boy beside on the water and you will learn. If you are really perceptive you will. For he already knows that fishing is only one part fish.

Chill out, relax and have an open mind.

The good news is I have time.

Work. Don't Think. Relax.

My motto is, 'What's the hurry?' I'm trying to get it across to the modern world that we need to sit around and think a little bit more.

Sitting in the morning sun, I'll be sitting when the evening comes

Let us leave hurry to slaves.

Everything is within walking distance, as long as you have time.

Hurry? I have no time to hurry.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life." -Shikamaru Nara

It moves at its own measured pace, for it has no reason to hurry. Tomorrow will come in its own good time.

There is always time to take more time.

What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop to set it right, and emerge an hour or two later breathless, contented, and wondering what on earth happened.

My hours are peaceful centuries.

Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.