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Mindfulness

Quotations from the Wayside

No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.
AFRICAN PROVERB

One can only forget time by making use of it.
CHARLES-PIERRE BAUDELAIRE

When those who fish can’t go to sea, they mend nets.
THE BOOK OF RUNES (ADAPTED)

Nothing is ever said until someone listens.
PAUL CARNES

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.
MEISTER ECKHART

He who stumbles but does not halt is hastened on his way.
GEORGE HERBERT

Today well lived makes every tomorrow a sacrament of joy.
ROBERT HENRY HOLMES

Be swift to hear, slow to speak.
JAMES 1:19

Listening silence shows more care than any rush of words.
J. DONALD JOHNSTON

To be blind is bad, but worse to have eyes and not to see.
HELEN KELLER

The great events are not our noisiest but our stillest hours.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
JAMES THURBER

Waiting is a window opening on many landscapes.
HOWARD THURMAN

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
SIMONE WEIL

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