Friday, May 10, 2024

Slow Living

The good life is a process, not a state of being.
It's a direction, not a destination.

Carl R. Rogers


It's a dangerous conception of mental hygiene
to assume that what man needs is equilibrium.
What man actually needs is not a tensionless
state but rather a striving and struggling
for a worthwhile goal.

Viktor Frankl


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Life is not a problem to be solved,
but a mystery to be lived.
Follow the path that is no path,
follow your bliss.

Joseph Campbell


If I were asked for the most important advice
I could give, that which I considered to be
the most useful, I should simply say:
in the name of God, stop a moment,
cease your work, look around you.

Leo Tolstoy


Wu Wei is the art of sailing,
rather than the art of rowing.

Alan Watts


A quiet secluded life in the country,
with the possibility of being useful
to people to whom it is easy to do good, and
who are not accustomed to have it done to them;
then work which one hopes will be of some use;
then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's
neighbour - such is my idea of happiness.

Leo Tolstoy


A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.
The man who never reads lives only one.

George R.R. Martin


- Replace "dead time" with a purpose.
- Sort out mental clutter.
- Practice morning delayed gratification.
- Lessen the gap between you and your goal.
- Redefine what reward means.


Enjoy the little things in life, because one day
you will look back and realize
they were the big things.

Kurt Vonnegut


1. Rest & recharge.
2. Remove distractions.
3. Take care of your body.
4. Take one step towards your goal.
5. Show up as your best self.
6. Accomplish one big task.
7. Do something fun.
8. Make connections everywhere you go.
9. Have something to look forward to.
10. Make time for yourself.


- Enjoy the experience.
- Don't rush the process.
- Focus on the meaning, not the action.
- Take time to relax.
- Make mistakes and learn.


The secret of being miserable is to have leisure
to bother about whether you are happy or not.

Bernard Shaw


The path is the goal.
Mahatma Gandhi


Mostly it is loss which teaches us
about the worth of things.

Arthur Schopenhauer


Happiness is like a butterfly,
the more you chase it,
the more it will evade you,
but if you notice the other things around you,
it will gently come and sit on your shoulder.

Henry David Thoreau

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