Gentle Pace Quotes

I'll start with small things.

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.

Slowly would be better than not at all.

Today I will focus on a peaceful pace, rather than a harried one. I will keep moving forward gently, not frantically. I will let go of my need to be anxious and upset and will replace these feelings with calmness and harmony.

Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.

...and he kissed her and kissed her and kissed her, little by little by little.

Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-note Soft moves the dipping oar.

It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.

So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.

Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.

Who hath no hast in his businesse, mountaines to him seeme valleys.

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

The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.

He is slow, and the sea sings to us both, but he returns to me.

Slowly, slowly, catch the monkey.

You can't do some of the things you used to do. I suppose you have to go at a gentler pace. I mean, God help us, you can't sit at home being a Vicar or anything.

O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day seem to us less brief... Retard the sun with gentle mist; Enchant the land with amethyst.

One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.

Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident.

All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretence Our wanderings to guide.