Nurture Your Own

Releasing the pressure, it’s good for the teapot and the water. Try it sometime. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com

Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you. ~John De Paola

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. ~Aesop, Fables

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself. ~H.L. Mencken

There is more to life than increasing its speed. ~Mohandas K. Gandhi

I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. ~Jennifer Yane

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring – it was peace. ~Milan Kundera

Is everything as urgent as your stress would imply? ~Carrie Latet

Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way. ~Douglas Pagels, These Are the Gifts I’d Like to Give to You

Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering. ~Pooh’s Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. ~Natalie Goldberg, Wild Mind

There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. ~Peter Drucker

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. ~Will Rogers, Autobiography, 1949