Inspirational Quotes About Slowing Down

We Are Too Busy to Think Deeply About Life

John Sachem
We are busy people. We have so many things to do. The last thing we have on our mind is slowing down. Life in the fast lane is fleeting. Maybe it's time to stop the busyness and slow down. You cannot keep the fast pace forever. Stop living too fast. Take a different approach today. Spend some time meditating, listen to God in prayer. Think about the direction of your life. Rediscover the sense of wonder. Love deeply. Show gratitude. Do something good for someone else. Have fun and play. Simply live in the moment. Rest. Make time in your life for the things that matter.

Be patient with yourself, it takes time to slow down.

"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For fast-acting relief, try slowing down."
--Lily Tomlin

"It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be."
--Eileen Caddy

"Always remember to slow down in life; live, breathe, and learn; take a look around you whenever you have time and never forget everything and every person that has the least place within your heart."
--Anonymous

"It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up."
--J.K. Rowling

"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast-you also miss the sense of where you are going and why."
--Eddie Cantor

"If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of creativity. It has allowed me to open up -- to know that there's life under the earth and that I have to let it come through me in a new way. Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else."
--Natalie Goldberg

"Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you."
--John De Paola

"I can't afford to slow down, but I suppose it really depends. As long as there's enough enthusiasm, then one wants to continue."
--Sean Connery

"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in."
--Henry David Thoreau

"Slow down you're doing fine
You can't be everything you want to be
Before your time."
--Billy Joel

"It gets to the point where you're hot, you're hot, and when you're not, you're not. It's so true. I have to slow down soon."
--Leonardo DiCaprio

"Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down"
--Anonymous

"I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path through the day. To the left and right there are an amazing set of distractions that we usually can't afford to follow. But the poet is willing to stop anywhere. . . . And it's that willingness to slow down and examine the mysterious bits of fluff in our lives that is the poet's interest."
--William Collins

"We are always getting ready to live but never living."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Published by John Sachem

I am a youth pastor who works at a church in National City. I love spending time with young people.  View profile

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