Rushing Quotes - Page 11

• A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, Talent, Tranquility

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• If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.

  Bill Hybels

  Christian, Prayer, Kind

  "Too Busy Not to Pray". Book by Bill Hybels, 1994.

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• We have sought for firm ground and found none.
  The deeper we penetrate, the more restless becomes the universe; all is rushing about and vibrating in a wild dance.

  Max Born

  Restless, Found, Firm

  Max Born (2013). “The Restless Universe”, p.277, Courier Corporation

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• History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified.

  Terence McKenna

  Buddhist, Opposites, Realms

  "Psychedelic Society". Terence McKenna's speech at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, February 1984.

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• There are more than enough people with serious mental issues who really do need professional help without all the other Toms, Dicks and Harriets rushing to the therapist's couch.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Issues, People, Serious

  "I'm too sensitive. How can I toughen up?" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. Jnuary 26, 2014.

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• The word suffering is full and whole and perfect as a pierced heart, sweet, rushing and tender ... Suffering is the joy of someone about to be martyred, illumination of something given up as an offer.

  Lydia Millet

  Sweet, Grief, Heart

  Lydia Millet (2005). “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart”, p.206, Soft Skull Press

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• As tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service. I've seen you engage and I've seen you turn out in record numbers. I've heard your voices amplified by creativity and a digital fluency that those of us in older generations can barely comprehend. I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Graduation, Passion

  Remarks by the President at Barnard College Commencement Ceremony, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 14, 2012.

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• Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.

  Charles Bukowski

  Love Is, Psychics, Garbage Cans

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• I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river.

  Dawna Markova

  Rocks, Rivers, Needs

  Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion”, p.16, Conari Press

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• Great style means having a point of view, but evolving your look is even more important. Rushing to embrace every trend will leave you fashionable, but not stylish

  Michael Kors

  Mean, Views, Style

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• The sky aft was dark as pitch, but the moon still shone brightly ahead of us and lit up the blackness. Beneath its sheen a huge white-topped breaker, twenty feet high or more, was rushing on to us. It was on the break-the moon shone on its crest and tipped its foam with light. On it rushed beneath the inky sky, driven by the awful squall behind it.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Dark, Moon, White

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1014, Delphi Classics

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• Sin does not always drive us to drink; more often it drives us to exhaustion. Tiredness is equally as debilitating as drunkenness. Burnout is slang for an inner tiredness, a fatigue of our souls. Jesus came to forgive us all of our sins, including the sin of busyness. The problem with growth in the modern church is not the slowness of growth but the rushing of growth.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Jesus, Soul, Growth

  Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.64, Harper Collins

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• Heroism is no extempore work of transient impulse--a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness by which, after a moment's insulting radiance, it is ruthlessly swallowed up,--but a steady fire, which darts forth tongues of flame. It is no sparkling epigram of action, but a luminous epic of character.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Character, Epic, Fire

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• Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Swim, Rolling, Silent

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• I loathe all this blind rushing pell-mell into a struggle arranged by the mighty minority and paid for with the lives of young men who are drugged on trumped-up ideals.

  Fannie Hurst

  War, Struggle, Men

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• And what is 'art'? - a firestorm rushing through Time, arising from no visible source and conforming to no principles of logic or causality.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Causality, Principles

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art”, p.154, Zondervan

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• Micromanaging erodes people's confidence, making them overly dependennt on their leaders. Well-meaning leaders inadvertently sabotage their teams by rushing to the rescue and offering too much help. A leader needs to balance assistance with wu wei, backing off long enough to let people learn from their mistakes and develop competence.

  Diane Dreher

  Mistake, Team, Offering

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• One wants more time, more youth. That is it. That is all one asks for - nothing but that, a little more time. Hear it running by! Listen! In the night, in the morning, at noon, at even, rushing by, silent, stealthy, trying to hoodwink you by the fixed appearance of things that seem not to change; but never stopping. Oh, to stop it! Oh, to get it back! Oh, to dig one's toes in and refuse to be rushed headlong towards the brink!

  Mary Borden

  Running, Time, Morning

  Mary Borden (1925). “Three pilgrims and a tinker: a novel”

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• Marriage...one of the most civilized institutions in the world...But...swimming is one of the most wonderful of sports, and yet there are always some people who cannot swim who insist on going into the water and getting drowned. Many people spoil marriage in a like manner. One should be sure she knows how to be married before rushing into it.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Sports, Swimming, People

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• When you're up against the clock and break-outs are happening, all the time, and it's literally rushing in on you, you do what you have to do.

  Mark Pellegrino

  Clock, Break, Happenings

  Source: collider.com

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• Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite.

  Maria Shriver

  Inspirational, Graduation, Opposites

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• Prayer means rushing to the Father as His child. It means asking and receiving, loving and thanking Him.

  Basilea Schlink

  Prayer, Children, Father

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• Rushing around, hoping to find peace of mind anywhere other than within yourself, is like looking for your heart in someone else's body!

  Guy Finley

  Heart, Mind, Body

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Mar 12, 2016

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• When we really want to hear, and be heard by, someone we love, we do not go rushing into noisy crowds. Silence is a form of intimacy. That's how we experience it with our friends and lovers. As relationships grow deeper and more intimate, we spend more and more quiet time alone with our lover. We talk in low tones about the things that matter... That is why Christ comes to us when our hearts and minds are still and silent.

  J. Brent Bill

  Heart, Silence, Mind

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• People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its current nor try to resist it. Rather, they adjust their every movement to the watercourse, use it with purpose and skill, and enjoy the adventure.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Adventure, Skills, Rivers

  David Steindl-rast (2010). “Deeper Than Words: Living the Apostles' Creed”, p.135, Image

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