Quotes About Busyness

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.

On the one hand, we all want to be happy. On the other hand, we all know the things that make us happy. But we don't do those things. Why? Simple. We are too busy. Too busy doing what? Too busy trying to be happy.

Clint appeared startled. "You didn't have to do that, Mrs. St. Clair. I could've waited until you weren't so busy." "Then you would've waited forever," she said wryly. "There's always something to be done around here.

Only by practicing stillness aggressively, pushing all the clamor and busyness of life aside, can a man truly experience God. In the still and quiet, discernment is learned so that in the heart of the battle it can be practiced. If a man can't practice it when things are still, there is no way he will be able to do so when the arrows are flying.

I don't know which is more nutty. All this stuff I do outside of work, or the stuff I do all week.

how reality feels. People addicted to busyness, people who don't just use their cell phones in public but display in every nuance of cell-phone deportment their sense of throbbing connectedness to Something Important—these people would suffocate like fish on a dock if they were cut off from the Flow of Events they have conspired with their fellows to create. To these plugged-in players, the rest of us look like zombies, coasting on fumes. For

We are ants on the carcass of the world, spawned out of nothing, going busily nowhere. One of us dies, the others crawl over us to the pickings.

Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do.

Always have something to do, idleness is the worst disease to be avoided.

Face falling, her sister pushed a crumb around her plate. 'I feel dumb now. I shouldn't have called you—I know you must be sad and busy because of the Falling.' She squashed the crumb, staring at it as if it were the most important thing on the planet.

A heightened distractibility and a persistent feeling of being rushed or in a hurry, even when there's no need to be, combined with a mounting feeling of how superficial your life has become: lots to do, but no depth of thought or feeling.

The modern danger is that we grow so engrossed with and seduced by what matters so little, busy with and ruled by whatever presses upon us, that we overlook and thereby destroy our most important projects and goals through neglect.

She was always on her feet. Cooking. Washing. Ironing.

Fridays! They are the worst. Days stuffed with itsy-bitsy multicoloured tasks that fill every second of the day, but like M&M´s fail to nourish in any way.

And so begin again by doing what I really want to do. Work. Aspiring to an existence with a lot of quiet in it. Turning from people I don't needing my life. Shunning bits busyness. Finding the courage to say no. I need to be good at being alive again.

With our busy lives, for most of us, relaxation is not a priority. When to do nothing." I ask people in yoga classes what they do to relax, a common answer is our —J. B. Priestley contemporary types of "relaxation"—watching TV, competitive and spectator sports events, walking, reading, and so on.

Thus idly busy rolls their world away

Haven't you learned by now that it's always one thing after another? Being busy is no excuse. Everyone's busy.

We live in such an alienated and busy culture that the simple act of genuinely smiling at somebody is quite rare on a day-to-day basis.

Good biblical busyness is a powerful defense against debilitating doubt. The more you give yourself to the devotional, discipleship, and missional things God calls all his children to, the more you will be reminded of the enormous blessing and eternal importance of what it means to be a child of God and a part of God's unstoppable mission of redemption.