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Urgency Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Urgency
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Related topics: Wisdom Inspirational Nature Live-By Time Simple Simplicity
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Urgent? Why?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
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Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
Who forces time is pushed back by time;
who yields to time finds time on his side.
- The Talmud
To say "too busy" is merely
to say "confused priorities."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
We disrespect ourselves and our free-will
whenever we say that we NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
NECESSITY and URGENCY are twin poisons of our rattlesnake minds.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Affirmation:
"I choose never to be a prisoner of urgency."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I choose never to be a prisoner of urgency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time is carnivorous.
Urgency rips the peaceful flesh from our bones.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Urgency is a grim taskmaster.
Escape time, and life becomes irie.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
("Irie" is a Jamaican word for being at total peace
with your current state of being.)
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature Quotes and Sayings
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The fog unrolls itself to be a prayer rug to the mountains.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
Flowers are Nature's messengers -
reminders of an unspeakable beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Being part of the natural world reminds me
that innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
Every blade of grass has an angel
that bends over it and whispers, "grow! grow!
- Talmud
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
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy,
if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you,
if the simple things in nature have a message you understand,
Rejoice, for your soul is alive.
- Eleanora Duse
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Pause to appreciate the beauty around you.
Whether rainbow or butterfly,
mountain or tree, painting or poem -
whether crafted by nature or by a human hand -
beauty adds a magical element to life
that surpasses logic and science.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
Hold on... Joyfully.
Holding-on does not have to be
a desperate teeth-gritting kind of holding-on.
Holding-on can be a joyful
"this is just the nature of Life,
so I may as well enjoy it"
kind of holding-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
That sense of sacredness,
that thinking in generations,
must begin with reverence for this earth.
- Paul Tsongas
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter
Nature never breaks her own laws.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Study nature, love nature,
stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed,
but nature does not depend on us.
We are not the only experiment.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Have you ever hugged a tree?
Hug a tree, and one day you will come to know
that it is not only that
you have hugged the tree
but that the tree also responds,
the tree also hugs you.
- Osho
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
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon
Let us honor all children,
and put ourselves into service
preparing a magnificent
earthly home for future generations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
- Zhuangzi
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
When nature has work to be done,
she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature hates calculators.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Joy in looking and comprehending
is nature's most beautiful gift.
- Albert Einstein
Nature is not human hearted.
- Lao Tzu
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity;
so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
- Henry David Thoreau
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
