Busy Life Quotes
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“A hundred years from now, folks will look back at this time period and think, Wow, what an incredible moment it must鈥檝e been to be alive. Syrian refugees, human trafficking, climate change鈥攖he whole world is out there waiting to be saved. And you鈥檒l have a grand adventure doing it, even if only in what you consider a small, locally based way. You know, you already have as a teacher.”
― The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
― The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen
“If we do not allow for a rhythm of rest in our overly busy lives, illness becomes our Sabbath - our pneumonia, our cancer, our heart attack, our accidents create Sabbath for us.”
― Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives
― Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives

“There鈥檚 more to life than increasing its speed.”
― BookSmart: Hundreds of real-world lessons for success and happiness
― BookSmart: Hundreds of real-world lessons for success and happiness

“No one will save you. No one will make an effort to understand you. People are basically busy living their lives. So you must realise this and never expect anything from anyone. If you ever believe in the words of people, then you will be dissapointed.”
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“I asked myself, 鈥淲ho would I be if I weren鈥檛 busy? What would be left of my life and me after I removed excess stuff from my home and allowed my day to have unscheduled open spaces?”
― Lighter Living: Declutter. Organize. Simplify.
― Lighter Living: Declutter. Organize. Simplify.
“I read these biographies all the time about these successful people and one of the patterns that I've discovered, and what I've discovered in myself and all of my friends who have become very successful, has been the fact that they say "Yes" to a lot of commitments.
If you just have this one goal, then that one thing may get shoved under the rug and procrastinated on. But if you say yes to a lot of things; if you almost overcommit, then you probably won't get all of the things you've committed to complete. But you'll get a good portion of them. The 80% that you DO get done will still be more than that one person who said no to a lot of things. The busiest people get the most things done.”
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If you just have this one goal, then that one thing may get shoved under the rug and procrastinated on. But if you say yes to a lot of things; if you almost overcommit, then you probably won't get all of the things you've committed to complete. But you'll get a good portion of them. The 80% that you DO get done will still be more than that one person who said no to a lot of things. The busiest people get the most things done.”
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“I鈥檝e recognized that 鈥渂usy is a decision鈥� and that presence is more rewarding than productivity or efficiency”
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“A person can hurry through or sleep walk through life, but whenever they stop to catch their breath or awaken from a long nap, they will find apprehension, disquiet, and fretfulness waiting their directed attention.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls

“When we practice walking with awareness, our solid peaceful steps cultivate the energy of mindfulness and bring us back to the present moment. When we sit and follow our breathing, aware of our in-breath and out-breath, we are cultivating the energy of mindfulness. When we have a meal in mindfulness, we invest all our being in the present moment and are aware of our food and of those who are eating with us. We can cultivate the energy of mindfulness, whatever we are doing鈥攚hen we are working, or cleaning up, and even when we are being intimate with our loved one. Just a few days practicing like this can increase our energy of mindfulness, and that energy will help us, protect us, and give us courage to go back to ourselves, to see and embrace what is there in our territory.”
― Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
― Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts

“However, if I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential. It's so easy to spend your whole time being preoccupied with urgent matters and never starting to live, really live.”
― Letters to Marc About Jesus: Living a Spiritual Life in a Material World
― Letters to Marc About Jesus: Living a Spiritual Life in a Material World

“I鈥檓 too busy鈥� is another way of saying, 鈥業t鈥檚 not a priority.”
― Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
― Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“We are not that busy; we are just distracted.”
― The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential
― The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“Listen, there are other things in life besides the day-to-day, all of this is great but really, it's going nowhere... It seems like I don't have time to do anything. I'm stuck... I do a million things and nothing comes out...”
― Pretending Is Lying
― Pretending Is Lying

“Today, there was no time for the old rituals and the old ways; there was barely time in each day to kiss your son good morning and your wife goodbye as you rushed out to the shop, trying to make a living, before trudging home with nothing to show after you鈥檇 paid the taxi fares and bought the milk for Klein Ben鈥檚 porridge 鈥�”
― The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories
― The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories

“Homo defessus 鈥� Never before in human history have so many people considered their everyday tiredness (because they are so busy and have so much to do) as a badge of honor. We are living in the era of Homo defessus, the exhausted man. I wonder if historians of the distant future (if there will be any) will look back at our epoch and decide to give it a name: 鈥淭he Second Dark Ages,鈥� because for the first time, humans not only deliberately sought exhaustion, but were also convinced that this mentality was their pride, an indisputable token of greatness.”
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“Whenever we have fifteen free minutes, an hour or two, we have the habit of using our computers or cell phones, music, or conversations to forget and to run away from the reality of the elements that make up our beings.”
― Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
― Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts

“Don鈥檛 think that without this or that you can鈥檛 be happy. Go ahead and try your best to have what you want, but in the meantime you can still be happy.”
― Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
― Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts

“Some people are too busy to find ways to save time.”
― Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
― Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“Some people think that looking busy makes them more productive.”
― Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
― Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“No matter how busy and important you think you are, you cannot reject nature鈥檚 call.”
― Song of a Nature Lover
― Song of a Nature Lover

“Sometimes, "busy" is shorthand for something else, in the same way that "tired" can mean anything from physically exhausted to extremely depressed.”
― You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way
― You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“A lot of people are busy鈥oing figure eights.”
― Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others
― Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others
“Amidst the Orange Dreamy hues of life, a mindful truth whispers: 'No one is too busy; silence echoes unspoken desires. The heart yearns in a silent war with the mind's certainty. In this dance, acknowledge the ache, for within, lies the key to healing.”
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“Pause, reflect, admire, take heed of your ways鈥攕o these ancient tablets are always advising and exhorting us. One leaves the church marveling at the spacious days when unknown citizens could occupy so much room with their bones and confidently request so much attention for their virtues when we鈥攂ehold how we jostle and skip and circumvent each other in the street, how sharply we cut corners, how nimbly we skip beneath motor cars. The mere process of keeping alive needs all our energy. We have no time, we were about to say, to think about life or death either, when suddenly we run against the enormous walls of St. Paul鈥檚.”
― The London Scene: Six Essays on London Life
― The London Scene: Six Essays on London Life

“Some people think they鈥檙e too busy to think.”
― BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose
― BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose

“In old times, life moved at a gentler rhythm, whereas modern times seem to demand constant speed and instant gratification.”
― The Undefined World
― The Undefined World

“If you鈥檙e going to be busy, be productive.”
― BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose
― BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose
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