{"quotes":[{"text":"When you run your own race, don't worry about the next person's pace; mind yours, after all this is your own race not theirs.","author":"Gift Gugu Mona","tags":["life-lessons","pace","race","run","theirs","yours"],"id":21349,"author_id":"Gift+Gugu+Mona"},{"text":"Life itself is the best (and the only) timekeeper.","author":"Rasheed Ogunlaru","tags":["acceptance","calm","fast","fears","flow","life","life-lessons","pace","procrastinate","about-time","relax","slow","slowing-down","speed","speeding-up","time","time-keeping","worrying"],"id":29844,"author_id":"Rasheed+Ogunlaru"},{"text":"I don't read books to finish them, I read to consume them.","author":"TemitOpe Ibrahim","tags":["book","consume","difference","fast","finish","pace","read","readers","reading"],"id":61703,"author_id":"TemitOpe+Ibrahim"},{"text":"I was cranked to a fifth gear, and everything I did, I did on a deadline.","author":"Mitch Albom","tags":["deadline","fast","life","pace","work","workaholic"],"id":72518,"author_id":"Mitch+Albom"},{"text":"Small steps may appear unimpressive, but don't be deceived. They are the means by which perspectives are subtly altered, mountains are gradually scaled, and lives are drastically changed.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["change","change-the-world","change-your-life","growth","improvement","pace","progress","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich","small-steps"],"id":128782,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"If a man does not keep pace with hiscompanions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Lethim step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple-tree oran oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer?","author":"Henry David Thoreau","tags":["conformity","maturity","pace"],"id":193199,"author_id":"Henry+David+Thoreau"},{"text":"Every flower blooms at a different pace.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["ambition","aptitude","bloom","flower","growth","level","life","mindset","pace","speed","success","successful","suzy-kassem","time"],"id":208208,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Your purpose, and its specific expressions, expands and accelerates as it becomes more similar to Nature’s purpose. The tools you need to apply it you collect along the path in discovering what that is. Time is there to provide you with the “opportunities” to find more creative responses to things like frustration, confusion and self-righteousness. As you gently, oh so gently and delicately, adjust to the requirements that exist in your actual circumstance, you are given the tools needed to surpass them.","author":"Darrell Calkins","tags":["alchemy","asian-philosophy","balance","buddhism","cobalt-saffron-retreat","cobaltsaffron","cobaltsaffron-retreat","comparative-religion","conscience","creativity","curiosity","darrell-calkins","darrell-calkins-cobalt-saffron","darrell-calkins-cobaltsaffron","darrell-calkins-retreat","darrell-calkins-seminar","evolution","happiness","humor","inspiration","intuition","mysticism","nature","pace","personal-skills-development","purpose","taoism","well-being","zen"],"id":248023,"author_id":"Darrell+Calkins"},{"text":"In the quest for a functional and direct interaction between imagination and reality, and the evolution of them both, there is in place a natural resistance, which I have referred to as Creative Resistance, because it demands just that: creativity. Much of this calls for redefining, or refining, one’s relationship with time, and all the qualities and skills that will only come from engaging time more creatively and effectively. As such, part of the bargain is about acquiescing to a rhythm that is subtler and has more definite purpose to it than one’s subjective preferences.","author":"Darrell Calkins","tags":["alchemy","asian-philosophy","balance","buddhism","cobalt-saffron-retreat","cobaltsaffron","cobaltsaffron-retreat","comparative-religion","conscience","creativity","curiosity","darrell-calkins","darrell-calkins-cobalt-saffron","darrell-calkins-cobaltsaffron","darrell-calkins-retreat","darrell-calkins-seminar","evolution","happiness","humor","inspiration","intuition","mysticism","pace","personal-skills-development","purpose","taoism","well-being","zen"],"id":259071,"author_id":"Darrell+Calkins"},{"text":"Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["enlightenment","pace"],"id":266675,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":29,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}