“The more exhausted I let myself get, the more I'll slip up. Human bodies betray us. They get starved and sick and run-down. I know it, and yet, there is always so much more to do.”
Source: The Wicked King
“Listen, there are other things in life besides the day-to-day, all of this is great but really, it's going nowhere... It seems like I don't have time to do anything. I'm stuck... I do a million things and nothing comes out...”
Source: Pretending Is Lying
“I’m so busy, I’m not even available yesterday.”
“I used to work in a tall office building, and I carried a briefcase. It was empty of business, but when people tried to stop me to talk, I'd hold it up and say, "Gotta run. Look how busy I am.”
Source: I design saxophone music in blocks, like Stonehenge
“It's amazing how busy someone gets when they have no interest in connecting with you.”
“We are not that busy; we are just distracted.”
Source: The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential
“Mika: Were you happy?
Hiro: I was so happy.”
Source: Koizora (Love Sky), Volume 3
“Overwhelming ! People think about jumping off bridges . . . when they see what I have on my plate . . . and thats just before lunch”
“Burnout is not just about being too busy or feeling overwhelmed…It's feeling like your work has no purpose and you don't have support.”
“I think we all suffer from the societal pressure to always be occupied. Busy is worn as a badge of honor these days, the busier we are, the more important we feel. But busy doesn't mean important, busy just means you are preoccupied and often means you are distracted. It doesn't mean you are esteemed, fun, smart, worthy, valued, loved, appreciated, excited, or happy. Busy means you are not paying attention to the current moment, but instead are hustling around in a fog of things you have to do.
Busy isn't special, we are all busy.”
Source: Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There