I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
BERTOLT BRECHT
BERTOLT BRECHT
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Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.
Helen KellerHelen Keller There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Marie CurieMarie Curie No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man’s hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.
HomerHomer Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
Alan WattsAlan Watts Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
A. A. MilneA. A. Milne Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Learn to trust His timing. Don’t get in a hurry; don’t grow impatient; don’t try to force doors open. Don’t try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way.
Joel OsteenJoel Osteen Don’t be in a hurry to change one evil for another.
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