“I worry that I’ll face my death and realize that my life got lost in this frantic flotsam of daily stuff.” - Brigid Schulte “I frequently worry that being productive is the surest way to lull ourselves into a trance of passivity and busyness the greatest distraction from living, as we coast through our lives day after day, showing up for our obligations but being absent from our selves, mistaking the doing for the being.” - Maria Popova “Our gadgets have become weapons of mass distraction.” - Carl Honoré “Doing is never enough if you neglect Being.” - Eckhart Tolle “Busy is a choice.” - Debbie Millman / Ann Voskamp Activity is often unrelated to productivity, and busyness rarely takes care of business.” - Gary Keller We become active and busy, but this doesn’t actually move us any closer to success. “When everything feels urgent and important, everything seems equal. “People who live far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyles can’t fathom.” - Naval “Busyness is, at its core, about misplaced priorities.” - Joshua Becker “We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.” - Alan Watts “Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself.” - Marcus Aurelius “The high value put upon every minute of time, the idea of hurry-hurry as the most important objective of living, is unquestionably the most dangerous enemy of joy.” - Hermann Hesse “The world has never complained about how busy it is.” - Haemin Sunim “The difficulty of describing things for Western ears is that people in a hurry cannot feel.” - Alan Watts It could however be useful to remind everyone that our basic needs never change.” - Guttorm Fløistad If you want to hang on you better speed up. “The only thing for certain is that everything changes. “Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.” ― Andrei Platonov This is because they’re chasing the wrong things.” - Morrie Schwartz They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. “So many people walk around with a meaningless life. The question is: What are we busy about?” - Henry David Thoreau “It is not enough to be busy so are the ants. “Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.” - Søren Kierkegaard “Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy-to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work … What, I wonder, do these busy folks get done?” - Søren Kierkegaard “The problem in the West is people want enlightenment to be fast, to be easy, and if possible, cheap.” - Matthieu Ricard quoting Dalai Lama “He who hurries has one foot in the grave.” - Moroccan saying “Being busy is a disease of our time.” - Pedram Shojai “Busyness is an illness of the spirit.” - Eugene Peterson “People are realizing that we are not rats and life is not a race.” - Geir Berthelsen “Busyness becomes our existential comfort pill, the refuge from existential angst.” - Nicos Hadjicostis “Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” - Socrates “The pace of life feels morally dangerous to me.” - Richard Ford “Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.” - Hakuin Ekaku “We stay so busy that the truth of our lives can’t catch up.” - Brené Brown “The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.” - Lily Tomlin “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” - Lao Tzu “Why am I so busy? When everything around me is moving so fast, I stop and ask, ‘Is it the world that’s busy, or is it my mind?'” - Haemin Sunim “What would it be like to only have activities in your life that ‘sparked joy?’ … it’s a goal to keep in mind as you evaluate your schedule.” - Laura Vanderkam “There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.” - Seneca “Those who are wise won’t be busy, and those who are too busy can’t be wise.” - Lin Yutang “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” - Mahatma Gandhi = Start To Open Possibilities” - Richie Norton 45+ Busy Quotes to Inspire you to Slow Down Life
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