Life's Pace Quotes

On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

This I can report from the front lines: life never calms down long enough for us to wait until tomorrow to start living the lives we deserve.

Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking.

Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?

Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.

Because life doesn't always happen according to a timetable or calendar. And feelings can't be scheduled.

Life is like a Ferrari, it goes too fast. But that's ok, because you can't afford it anyway.

Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it. There is always another appointment to be met, another bill to pay, another symptom presenting, another uneventful day to be notched onto the wooden wall. We have synchronized our watches, studied our calendars, existed in minutes, and completely forgotten to step back and see what we've accomplished.

We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it’s all gone.

He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.

Speed bumps, I was thinking, you know, you're driving along, everything's OK, and then there's a speed bump to go, 'Slow down.' Go over it real slowly, and you hit the pedal, and you keep going, and I just thought it was kind of a nice metaphor for life.

nothing is slower than the true birth of a man

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.

My view is that, you know, life unfolds at its own rhythm. You know, I have never lived a life that I thought I could plan out. And I'm just trying to do the best I can every day. I find I have a lot to get done between the time I get up and the time I go to bed.