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Quotes About Pause

He stops to wait for her, but she has a sudden burst of energy, passing him. On and on she sprints, unobstructed, kicking up her heels at the water's edge. Dark hair to her chin, rearranged by the wind, obscuring her face. Just when he thinks she will have the energy to run forever, to escape his sight, she pauses. Turning back, breathing hard, her hand on her hip, making sure he is there.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
If things are not working out, they just stop going forward.
~ Mike Colter
If you work all the time, you lose the intermittence of reflection and thought at every stage. Take breaks - for you and your work.
~ Peter Megargee Brown
Insight comes at a moment of transition between work and relaxation.
~ Rollo May
Soon would come the night in which there was no more work – not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart.
~ Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, 'Oh, that's me.'
~ Cary Fukunaga
I want to stay in some era and remain there like a stupid idiot and see what happens when you try to pause time and not affect it. Not succeed. Not try to think ahead or think behind.
~ Ariel Pink
Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can do is take a complete rest.
~ Unknown
Think ere you speak
~ Valerie Tripp
When in doubt," she said, "do nothing.
~ Unknown
When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity.
~ Joseph Campbell
Never miss a chance to shut up
~ Will Rogers
Never pass by a chance to shut up.
~ Robert Silverberg
if there's never any pause—we will never be able to relax.
~ Pema Chodron
Interromper nossa expectativa de solução é um presente que podemos dar a nós mesmos.
~ Pema Chodron
When one thought has ended and another has not begun, we can rest in that space.
~ Pema Chodron
Hacer una pausa en lugar de llenar inmediatamente el espacio es una experiencia transformadora. Cuando esperamos, empezamos a conectar tanto con la inquietud fundamental como con la amplitud fundamental.
~ Pema Chodron
It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately fill up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well as fundamental spaciousness. -Pema Chodron, from When Things Fall Apart
~ Pema Chodron
Dac? ar putea s? gândeasc?, inima s-ar opri.
~ Unknown
Maybe I'll just sit here parked for a while, he decided, and alpha meditate or go into various different altered states of consciousness.
~ Philip K. Dick
He stopped to look around. Everything was silent.
~ Philip K. Dick
Around them there was nothing but silence, as if all the world were holding its breath.
~ Philip Pullman
The terminal has that too-suddenly-hushed feeling of the moment after loud music stops.
~ David Foster Wallace
There was a pause. I was still scared by every gap in our conversation, fearing that this was it, the point where we had nothing left to say. I was still trying to impress you, and I still wanted to be impressed by you, so I could pass along pieces of your impressiveness to my friends, convincing myself this was possible.
~ David Levithan