It's important

It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal’s rhythm of rest and activity.

~Thomas Moore

If you're having difficulty

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

The sun

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it,
can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

~Galileo

Half our life

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

~Will Rogers

I learned

I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic, striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.

~Brenda Ueland

The soul requires

The soul requires duration of time -- rich, thick, deep, velvety time -- and it thrives on rhythm. Soul can’t be hurried or harried .... We may go through many events in the day and experience nothing because the soul has not had the opportunity to feel them from many different points of view.

~Robert Sardello

Life is so short

Life is so short we must move very slowly.

~Thai saying

Be mindful

Be mindful of how you approach time. Watching the clock is not the same as watching the sun rise.

~Sophia Bedford-Pierce

Anything worth doing

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

~Mae West

There is more

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

~Mohandes Gandhi