#pause

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100) ↗

— Rollo May

#freedom #pause #responsibility #courage

What you believe can change your experience. ↗

— Staness Jonekos

#nonfiction #women-s-health #beauty

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets? ↗

— Jim Bishop

#amount #bodies #car #crash #dwell

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#closed #dead #eyes #good #his

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#cessation #comes #dance #endure #everyone

John Howard Davies was not a very human person... if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster. ↗

— Graham Chapman

#howard #human #john #kind #made

In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on. ↗

— Marcia Gay Harden

#moving #moving on #musical #pause #segment

What's really interesting is the introduction of the tablet - not just the iPad, but the Nook and the Kindle. While they aren't going to solve all of our problems, I do think they make it easier for people to pause, linger, read and really process very important ideas. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#going #i #i do #ideas #important

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#bypass #pause #principle

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions. ↗

— Mary Webb

#her #music #nature #never #over