The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
Tags: life love poetry world nature poem hearts busyness
Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday busyness. Moreover, it itself actualizes this freedom by virtue of being intuition.
Josef PieperTags: happiness freedom leisure contemplation busyness
Some times things just fall off your plate.
V.K. SpringsTags: life life-lessons busy 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 ElliotTags: materialism busyness
Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things—eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies—since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.
SenecaTags: life mind living busy busyness preoccupation
Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills.
C. Neil StraitTags: life leisure tension busyness renew recreate
When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves.
Jack KornfieldTags: lost connection busy busyness
I don't have any talent for vacations.
Ann PatchettFull minds create chaos.
David W. JonesTags: mindfulness meditation enlightenment busyness busy-life
What exactly did people do when they had all the time in the world and could do whatever they liked? (p 153)
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