#bore

Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere. ↗

— Katie Dale

#wasting-time #worry #business

Being busy is better than being bored. Bored left a long time ago. Busy is always around for me. ↗

— Tabitha Robin

#bored #busy #life #business

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want. ↗

— Voltaire

#evil #greed #labor #need #vice

We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars. ↗

— David Bottoms

#breaking-free #breaking-the-rules #changes #life #new

I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely. ↗

— Mo Willems

#libraries #library #literary #obvious #sage-advice

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity ↗

— George Steiner

#boredom

I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless, it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored. ↗

— Louis C.K.

#boredom

Only boring people get bored. ↗

— Ruth Burke

#boredom #boredom

When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#boredom

Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#boredom #deceit #dejan-stojanovic #dispelling #literature