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Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.

Most people’s minds are almost always too busy for them to feel their skins being caressed by the wind or the sun.

MOTHER TIME: Life goes by so very fast, my dears, and taking the time to reflect, even once a year, slows things down. We zoom past so many seconds, minutes, hours, killing them with the frantic way we live that it's important we take at least this one collective sigh and stop, take stock, and acknowledge our place in time before diving back into the melee. Midnight on New Year's Eve is a unique kind of magic where, just for a moment, the past and the future exist at once in the present. Whether we're aware of it or not, as we countdown together to it, we're sharing the burden of our history and committing to the promise of tomorrow.

Nobody is freaking busy in this world. Wonders happen when you renounce that word.

Nobody is freaking busy in this world. Wonders happen when you renounce that word. -Giridhar Alwar

No matter how 'busy' a person's day may be. If they 'really care' they'll always find time for you.

ON BUSY BASTARDS: A busy bastard can’t stop finding things to do. He never rests and as a result, his staff never rests. He’s always making work that expands to fill whatever time is available. The point I make in my book is: Be busy, work hard, but don’t become so busy that you cut out other things in life, like family and recreation and hobbies. And never be so busy that you’re not giving your staff and your followers enough time to do the same thing.

No one is too busy to do what they actually prefer.

One of the most convicting things I have recently come to realize about Jesus is that He was never, not once, in a hurry.

One of the most painful realizations in life, is to all of a sudden discover that you had possessed things all along, that you were busy looking for somewhere else.

One of the favors life can do on you is to keep you busy.

Our digital devices and the outlooks they inspired allowed us to break free of the often repressive timelines of our storytellers, turning us from creatures led about by future expectations into more fully present-oriented human beings. The actual experience of this now-ness, however, is a bit more distracted, peripheral, even schizophrenic than that of being fully present. For many, the collapse of narrative led initially to a kind of post-traumatic stress disorder—a disillusionment, and the vague unease of having no direction from above, no plan or story. But like a dose of adrenaline or a double shot of espresso, our digital technologies compensate for this goalless drifting with an onslaught of simultaneous demands. We may not know where we're going anymore, but we're going to get there a whole lot faster. Yes, we may be in the midst of some great existential crisis, but we're simply too busy to notice.

People aren't ignoring you. They are busy with their lives. And the way to stop feeling ignored is to get busy with yours.

Our modern day, hyper-rat-race culture often leads us to mistakenly confuse 'busy' for 'success'. The truth of the matter is that if you're constantly having to tell people how busy you are and how overwhelmed with work or stressed you are, what you're really telling them is that you can't cope with what's on your plate. You're ‘failing’.

People are busy creating families, building businesses, working from morning until night but they don’t know what it is to live a full life

People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!

People that have a police car behind them pulling them over should put on their hazard lights and continue slowly driving to the nearest densely populated public place, such as a supermarket or shopping center. Pull over outside the busy entrance and start your video camera. Inform the police officer that you are video recording and very slowly give the requested documentation. Exercise your legal right to silence while the many independent witnesses video record the unexpected stop that rudely interrupts your day. If you are given a ticket, choose to go to court. It will give you time to obtain independent legal advice about the allegation.

Slogans seem to be dead; this world is now busy chanting fears of lost democracy

People who truly live their lives don't have time to complain or judge others. They're too busy enjoying life and love and everything in between!

Preparation is the pressure valve on a busy schedule.

Relationships take time, but we don’t want to take the time. In reality, too busy is a myth. People make time for the things that are really important to them.

Sleep? That's a luxury I can't afford. I simply have too much to do. Besides, I'll get plenty of sleep when I'm dead!

Stop chasing another busy self to become. Your real self is idle waiting to be lived... Go, take up your real self!

Sometimes we get so busy with our daily lives we do not take the steps and time necessary to be introspective.

So remember when you're looking for trouble That trouble is already busy with weaker men

The bed is just a decoration in a busy man's bedroom.

Take all those things that would propose to be important, and weigh them upon the scale of your soul. Asking how much each thing actually impacts, not just the moment, but the years ahead. Discard all that is trivial masquerading as significant, and reserve your days for those things that truly matter.

Success is deliberate! Excellence is intentional! Victory comes out of struggles... Winners win because they played a role... Get busy now!

The business of living can steal away the wonder of life.

The law of centrifugal force seems to be as true for the human condition as it is for the Newtonian mechanics. The faster our lives spin, the more things tend to fly apart.

The hopeful lenses of our eyes are fixed on the busy hands of our dependable God... He is working hardly on our prayers... Don't be afraid!

The problem is that those of us who are lucky enough to do work that we love are sometimes cursed with too damn much of it.

The new disease of our age is being OK doing everything at exactly the same time.

These were all simple acts of obedience I missed. But not missed because I was unaware. They were missed because I was busy—caught in the rush of endless demands. And the rush makes us rebellious. I knew what to do and blatantly ignored it. Ignoring God's leading doesn't seem like such a big deal in these cases. In the grand scheme of the world, how big a thing is it that I didn't pick up that cup? After all, how can I be sure it was really God? I think a better question would be, How can I be sure it wasn't God?

There are two types of 'busy': 1) Constantly distracting yourself from what is true. 2) Constantly working to create something real.

There is no time to be angry, always be busy with love.

The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.

The worlds high on doing and distracting and as result we need to keep doing and it doesn’t really matter what we are doing, as long as it is distracting.

They call it "business" because it does not become successful by a person's "idleness". Go get busy if you want to do business; but be busy for the right reasons!

Time crawls when you are bored; walks when you are occupied; runs when you are busy; but flies when you are having fun.

They refused to live in these moments right now. And they got busy in turning everything they come across, into a memory, which they could visit in the future.

They tell you: Follow your dreams. Listen to your spirit. Change the world. Make your mark. Find your inner voice and make it sing. Embrace failure. Dream. Dream and dream big. As a matter of fact, dream and don’t stop dreaming until your dream comes true. I think that’s crap. I think a lot of people dream. And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, powerful, engaged people? Are busy doing.

We all have the same 24/7. What we do with our time becomes our priority. Choose what you do with your time and do not lead a life by default

Too often, we miss out on opportunities in this life because we were too busy waiting for them to fall into our lap that we missed them tapping on our shoulder.

To stand strongly, we need three legs: Two legs and a work that will keep us busy!

Today’s generation keeps themselves busy on social media just to avoid thinking of someone.

We may not be able to stop satan from doing his business, but we can scheme to make his business to yield a loss! All things... I mean "all", "all things", "everything" is working for our good!

We can become so insensitive to the Spirit's prodding that we become too idle, too self absorbed and too busy with too many things that in the eyes of God, are worthless.

We each have 24 hours in a given day; how we choose to spend each moment determines how spent we are”! EL

Well, Hindsight, have you ever heard of the term Busy Idiot?