Busy Life Quotes

“Yes, people are busy every day creating new karma for themselves. The reason is they overreact to every slight... Grace and respect are two signs of a mature spiritual individual, whatever his religion or belief.”
Harold Klemp

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
Confucius

“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”
John Lennon

“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”
Lao Tzu

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
Jane Austen

“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.”
William Faulkner

“We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.”
Sue Grafton

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
Socrates

“He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.”
Rabindranath Tagore

“Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed.”
Chuck Palahniuk

“In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plough your anger and your energy into something positive.”
Lee Iacocca

“No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.”
Mary Kay Ash

“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.”
Thomas Alva Edison

“Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.”
Erich Fromm

“A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.”
Spanish Proverb

“While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.”
St. Francis de Sales

“If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business.”
William J. H. Boetcker


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