Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from 'hurry sickness.' Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.
Interpretation
Slow down in life to find peace and deeper enjoyment.
This quote emphasizes the importance of slowing down and being mindful in our daily lives. In a fast-paced world, taking time for introspection, meditation, and enjoying literature can lead to profound personal growth and fulfillment.
In practice
In a speech about mental health, I quoted this to emphasize the importance of self-care.
What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday.
Say to Yourself when Someone Else is Criticizing U, 'What U Think of Me is None of My Business'
Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.
My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.
Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
Be dispensers of God's grace, not controllers. Don't be the Holy Spirit's customs agents.
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