"Spending more time with friends and family costs nothing. Nor does walking, cooking, meditating, making love, reading or eating dinner at the table instead of in front of the television. Simply resisting the urge to hurry is free."

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Source : Carl Honoré (2004). “In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed”, A.A. Knopf Canada

Carl Honore

#Reading Quotes #Making Love Quotes #Cooking Quotes

“Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.”
“To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game”
“No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.”
“Before going back to sleep I imagined (I saw) a plastic universe, changeable, full of wondrous chance, an elastic sky, a sun that suddenly is missing or remains fixed or changes its shape.”
“More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given”
“Not until, years later, I found my true interest in life did I discover that I could master a subject, no matter how difficult, if it helped me in what I wanted to do.”

Source : Lincoln Ellsworth (1938). “Beyond Horizons”, New York, Book League of America
“I knew what I was doing, always! I just couldn't stop.”
“when happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life,it's important to make the most of it.It may not stay around for long and when it has gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time one could have been happy was wasted worrying when the happiness would be taken away.”

Source : Marian Keyes (1995). “Watermelon”, Dufour Editions

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