“...caught up in our own busyness, frantically running from one crisis to the next in a cycle that looks less like loving the Messiah and more like trying to become one.”
“From what I've witness, honesty didn't really make anyone happy. The truth was a punch to the gut, and while you were falling, a knee to the face, then you could lie on the floor and bleed for a spell.”
Source: Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade
“What happened to me? I asked myself.
Morris's high, smoky voice took me back to my university years, when I thought rich people were evil, a shirt and tie were prison clothes, and life without freedom to get up and go - motorcycle beneath you, breeze in your face, down the streets of Paris, into the mountains of Tibet - was not a good life at all. What happened to me?”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“I’m too busy’ is another way of saying, ‘It’s not a priority.”
Source: Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One
“Had it not been for "Nightline," Morrie would have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good excuse for this, except the one that everyone these days seems to have.
I had become too wrapped up in the siren song of my life. I was busy.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Quiet mind, easy life. Busy mind, hard life.”
Source: Inner Peace: Top Quotes, Ideas, And Insights To Stop Feeling Overwhelmed And Live A Better Life
“How are we supposed to meet and fall in "love," if I am so fucking busy and you don't exist?”
Source: Pieces of a Broken Mind
“When you’re constantly barreling forward, you’re not really paying attention to what’s happening around you.” A small smile played around Olivia’s lips. “Not really giving yourself a chance to change course.”
Source: This Time Could Be Different
“I am at my busiest when I am doing nothing!”
“Productivity has become a social wound. Pay attention for one day to how most conversations revolve around being busy or not having enough hours in the day.”
Source: Naked