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May you find comfort and joy in these encouraging quotes about Jamaican.
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.)
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu 
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
Urgent? Why?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To say "too busy" is merely
to say "confused priorities."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
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
Who forces time is pushed back by time;
who yields to time finds time on his side.
- The Talmud
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
that they hurry past it.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
I choose never to be a prisoner of urgency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Affirmation:
"I choose never to be a prisoner of urgency."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
There is sanctuary in being alone with nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
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
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
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
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
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
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
Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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
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
Every blade of grass has an angel
that bends over it and whispers, "grow! grow!
- Talmud
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
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
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
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us be silent, that we may
hear the whispers of the gods.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
There are moments when all anxiety
and stated toil are becalmed
in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
- Henry David Thoreau
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Water is the driving force of all nature.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Nature will bear the closest inspection.
She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf,
and take an insect view of its plain.
- Henry David Thoreau
Treat the earth well,
It was not given to you by your parents,
It was loaned to you by your children.
- Native American Proverb
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
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- John Muir
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
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
Nature hates calculators.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All my life through, the new sights
of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
- Marie Curie
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it.
I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon
Nature is not human hearted.
- Lao Tzu
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are certain pursuits which,
if not wholly poetic and true,
do at least suggest a nobler and finer
relation to nature than we know.
The keeping of bees, for instance.
- Henry David Thoreau
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The primal rhythmic power
and resonant sound of waves on the shore
are like the earth's heartbeat,
and become our connection with the body of nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature and human life are as various
as our several constitutions.
Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
- Henry David Thoreau
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When nature has work to be done,
she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Study nature, love nature,
stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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