#busyness

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

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

— Marty Rubin

#busyness #deprivation #love #love

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. I don't know what to do about it. I'm a little old to change. ↗

— Hume Cronyn

#between #busyness #change #compulsive #fill