Busyness Quotes
49 quotes by 44 authors
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What would it be like if, right in the midst of this busyness, we were to consciously take our hands off the controls? What if…
— Tara Brach
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Busyness kills more Christians than bullets.
— Kevin DeYoung
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...busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart...
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
— Dallas Willard
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Busyness is now the social norm that people feel they must conform to, Burnett says, or risk being outcasts.
— Brigid Schulte
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Sin does not always drive us to drink; more often it drives us to exhaustion. Tiredness is equally as debilitating as drunkenness. Burnout is slang…
— Mike Yaconelli
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Work addiction seems to be an addiction we are proud of. We almost seem to brag with mock displeasure that we are "overwhelmed" with busyness,…
— Paul Pearsall
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The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest. It may be wholeheartedness. You are so exhausted because all of the things you are doing are…
— David Steindl-Rast
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I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite unhealthy. It's compulsive.…
— Hume Cronyn
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We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness.
— Alan Watts
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Today we live in a world that judges its achievements by speed and busyness. Â… We are so busy making things happen that we have…
— Joan D. Chittister
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It's amazing how much information is coming at us most of the time through technology, the media and the busyness of the world around us.…
— Joyce Meyer
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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
— Gore Vidal
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Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude can…
— Julia Cameron
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I've got a lot to download on your mercy and grace. I've always rushed up to You and dumped whatever it was and hurried away,…
— Jan Karon
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Poets have tried to describe Ankh-Morpork. They have failed. Perhaps it's the sheer zestful vitality of the place, or maybe it's just that a city…
— Terry Pratchett
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They say time is money, but that's not true. Time is life. And if I want the fullest life, I need to find fullest time...…
— Ann Voskamp
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Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity…
— Josef Pieper
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Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. Now I…
— Mary Oliver
Who Wrote These Busyness Quotes
44 authors contributed a total of 49 Busyness Quotes, led by these top contributors: