Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.

The line counsels a deliberate reversal of the modern impulse to pursue goals through constant acceleration. It suggests that frantic striving can become counterproductive—narrowing attention, increasing anxiety, and making one miss opportunities that arise only when there is space to notice them. By personifying goals as things that can “catch” the pursuer, the quote reframes success as partly receptive rather than purely acquisitive: patience, steadiness, and presence can allow outcomes, relationships, or insights to arrive in their own time. The underlying message is not passivity but a shift from chasing to aligning—moving at a sustainable pace so that what matters can meet you.