#busyness

Some times things just fall off your plate. ↗

— V.K. Springs

#busyness #life #life-lessons #business

Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills. ↗

— C. Neil Strait

#leisure #life #recreate #renew #tension

Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth! ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#materialism #life

Towns are after all excrescences, grey fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#towns #urban-life #men

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves. ↗

— Jack Kornfield

#busyness #connection #lost #business

Full minds create chaos. ↗

— David W. Jones

#busyness #enlightenment #meditation #mindfulness #business

I understand our mornings can be busy; however, if we cannot make time for God now, then when? ↗

— Ashley Ormon

#devotional #god #morning #prayer #business

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 of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday busyness. Moreover, it itself actualizes this freedom by virtue of being intuition. ↗

— Josef Pieper

#contemplation #freedom #happiness #leisure #freedom

For lack of love one does a million other things. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#busyness #deprivation #love #love

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#because #books #busyness #how #many