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“Idle hands are the devils greatest tools. But it’ll be good to notice that the tools sharpened by idle heads. You are idle because that’s the job your mind gave you!”

Source: Daily Drive 365

“You either fight boredom, or you become it.”

Boring Boredom Stimulation Boring Life Occupy Yourself Challenging Yourself Stultify Stultifying Occupy Your Mind

Author:Stewart Stafford

“To occupy yourself with tasks that are useful to yourself and others, you can get your mind off your problems.”

Mind Problem Happiness Buddhism Tasks Occupy Yourself

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Occupy yourself with what's in your life now. Address those situations and subjects as fully as possible with your best efforts. That is what produces happiness and clarity and knowledge and power.”

Inspirational Effort Situation Subjects Produce Buddhism Clarity Addresses Best Effort Knowledge And Power Occupy Yourself

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.”

Way Harm Occupy Yourself

Author:Ovid

“When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day.”

People Killing Upset Delicate Occupy Yourself

Author:James Purefoy

“My hope is that the work is in some way counter-pinup. A pinup asks you to suspend interest in who the person is and occupy yourself entirely with looking at the body and fantasizing about what you could do with that body, completely ignoring how the person might feel about it.”

Way Feels Persons Body Might Asks Interest Occupy Yourself Pinup

Author:Jock Sturges

“As much as there is joy in writing, there's always the little bit of terror to keep you on edge, on your toes. It is a strange way to occupy yourself - to enjoy your life on a daily basis. There is no guarantee that something great is going to come next.”

Way Writing Littles Joy Next Bits Enjoy Strange Little Bit Bases Edges Terror Guarantees Toes Guarantees That Enjoy Your Life Occupy Yourself

Author:Robert Cormier

“The proper study of Mankind is Man.”

Men Literature Study Mankind Self Knowledge Thyself Know Thyself Sceptic Presuming Scanning Occupy Yourself Knowing Myself

Author:Alexander Pope

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”

“As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers for the middle-aged or elderly writer whose thoughts should more properly be turned to graver matters, occupying himself with the trivial concerns of imaginary people.”

“Above all, do not lie to yourself.”

Source: The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue

“Above all, don't lie to yourself.”

Source: The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)

“What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.”

Ifs Knows Space Responsibility Dying Positive Antidote Timidity Occupy Yourself

Author:Maya Angelou

“For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.”

Ifs Men Real Fiction Study Mankind Figures Creatures Significant Real Life Sensible Irrational Occupy Yourself

Book:Cakes and Ale

Source: Cakes and Ale

“Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.”

Imperfection Contemplating Occupy Yourself

Author:Ignatius of Loyola