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Slow Living Quotes

  • Jul 6, 2021
  • 1 min read

Updated: Jan 23, 2025

Never be so busy as not to think of others.

Mother Teresa


If you’re always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you’re in? Slow down and enjoy the moment you’re in and live your life to the fullest.

Nanette Mathews


Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Lao Tzu


Festina lente – make haste slowly.



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

Graham Greene


I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Abraham Lincoln


When things happen too fast, nobody can be certain about anything, about anything at all, not even about himself.

Milan Kundera


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

Eddie Cantor


If you want a feeling of unhurriedness, you need to create it now.



Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent – and working at a pace so slow – that I would be able to hear myself living.

Elizabeth Gilbert


For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.

Lily Tomlin


To live long, live slowly.

Cicero


To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

Shakespeare


To go faster, you have to go slower.

2025

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