Unhurried Pace Quotes

There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost

Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.

I don't believe in doing one thing after another. I am a bit lazy, laid back, and a happy-go-lucky person. I don't fret too much. I enjoy living in the moment. If I have too much, then I get confused and distressed.

Great peace is found in little busy-ness.

The thing I miss about L.A. is time. I feel like I had much more time there, partly because no one is ever really doing anything.

I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.

It's a quiet place, so people talk quietly," said Naoko. She made a neat pile of fish bones at the edge of her plate and dabbed at her mouth with a handkerchief. "There's no need to raise your voice here. You don't have to convince anybody of anything, and you don't have to attract anyone's attention.

Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots. Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much, comparatively, because I am not in a hurry to get to any tavern or grocery or livery-stable or depot to which they lead.

I just continue to work on what I want to work on, and I'm not rushing to achieve anything, really.

Maldives has a fun, relaxed and approachable vibe. I think I have a similar personality.

People think I rush around all day long like a raving lunatic. I'm much more relaxed than that.

And then you have the orangutans. There's a softness, and kindness, and there's almost this glint of humor that lies behind everything that they do. There's this old-soul sort of wisdom. And with that comes this cool, unhurried, decisive, linear way of moving through space.

A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.

I've never been one of those who wanted to fill my calendar up 90 percent of the time.

If I could wish one thing for anyone, it would be to not have to do anything his entire life-just go along and when you feel like doing something, do it.

I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.

Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.

Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person you meet by chance at the library or the pool may turn out to be the best friend of your down-the-street neighbor. Maybe that's why people are so friendly here, so willing to be unhurried.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

To be at ease is better than to be at business.

Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.

A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.

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

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.

Out in L.A., things relax even further than they do in Chicago. There's such a looseness to it, and there's a potentially refreshing advantage to that.