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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
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No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb 
We disrespect ourselves and our free-will
whenever we say that we NEED to do something.
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Who forces time is pushed back by time;
who yields to time finds time on his side.
- The Talmud
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Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
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A sloth lives a pretty good life, s-l-o-w-l-y.
Maybe we have something to learn from him.
Some days, being sloth-like may be just what you need
to avoid being consumed by urgency.
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You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Urgent? Why?
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To say "too busy" is merely
to say "confused priorities."
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Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
NECESSITY and URGENCY are twin poisons of our rattlesnake minds.
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We are composed of self-contradictions.
Each of us is loving in some moments - hateful in others.
Patient and calm sometimes - harried by urgency at others.
Understanding - and self-absorbed.
Reassuring - and sarcastic.
Generous - and greedy.
Trusting - and jealous.
Comforting - and snappish.
Original - and stuck in a rut.
Thankful - and needy.
Forgiving - and vengeful.
Nurturing ourself - and stuffing ourself with fast food.
Honoring our bodies - and overstressing.
Being Joyful - and Suffering.
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Affirmation:
"I choose never to be a prisoner of urgency."
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Time is carnivorous.
Urgency rips the peaceful flesh from our bones.
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I choose never to be a prisoner of urgency.
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Urgency is a grim taskmaster.
Escape time, and life becomes irie.
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("Irie" is a Jamaican word for being at total peace
with your current state of being.)
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flowers are Nature's messengers -
reminders of an unspeakable beauty.
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He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
There is sanctuary in being alone with nature.
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The fog unrolls itself to be a prayer rug to the mountains.
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Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
Trees are the earth's endless effort
to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
- Zhuangzi
Pay attention to rainbows, and snowflakes,
butterflies and the songs of birds,
the crash of storm-driven waves
and the mirror-surface of a quiet pond.
Let the depths of nature become a part of your innermost being.
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In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nature and human life are as various
as our several constitutions.
Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
- Henry David Thoreau
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners.
That is our permanent state.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take a course in good water and air;
and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own.
Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
- John Muir
Nature never breaks her own laws.
- Leonardo da Vinci
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask.
She has long ago taken her resolution.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening
our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature and its beauty.
- Albert Einstein
Keep close to Nature's heart...
and break clear away, once in awhile,
and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods.
Wash your spirit clean.
- John Muir
Joy in looking and comprehending
is nature's most beautiful gift.
- Albert Einstein
All my life through, the new sights
of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
- Marie Curie
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it.
I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station,
through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
- George Washington Carver
The primal rhythmic power
and resonant sound of waves on the shore
are like the earth's heartbeat,
and become our connection with the body of nature.
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Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction
because of the variety of factors in operation,
not because of any lack of order in nature.
- Albert Einstein
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are moments when all anxiety
and stated toil are becalmed
in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
- Henry David Thoreau
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your inner thoughts reveal your true nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Study nature, love nature,
stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon
The goal of life is
to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.
- Joseph Campbell
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- John Muir
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity;
so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
- Henry David Thoreau
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive
and potentially orderly and constructive.
- Margaret Mead
Nature will bear the closest inspection.
She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf,
and take an insect view of its plain.
- Henry David Thoreau
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing.
None is excluded, but excludes himself.
You have only to push aside the curtain.
- Henry David Thoreau
When nature has work to be done,
she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
That sense of sacredness,
that thinking in generations,
must begin with reverence for this earth.
- Paul Tsongas
Nature is not human hearted.
- Lao Tzu
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal and cheer
and give strength to the body and soul.
- John Muir
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