Compulsive Busyness

I've been meeting with clients and friends who are all ramping up their activity level prior to the holidays, and already feeling overwhelmed. Almost everyone I know, including myself, complains (and boasts) about being SO busy under ordinary ever day circumstances, so it gets hugely amplified at this time of year. I could go into psychological insights about why we're so chronically over scheduled, but I thought these quotes I found might resonate better with everyone out there who fills every minute with busyness, then feels depleted.
(I'll sign off while you're reading - gotta go do more stuff!)


Sleep tight,
Susan Lager


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Busyness Quotes

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The time to relax is -- when you don't have time for it.

- Sydney J. Harris

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It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?

- Henry David Thoreau

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My candle burns at both its ends;
It will not last the night;
But oh, my foes, and oh, my friends --
It gives a lovely light.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

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The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

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The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else- we are the busiest people in the world.

- Eric Hoffer

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At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.

- Golda Meir

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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

- Rabindranath Tagore

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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with   one another - and ourselves.

                                                                                                                                                                                    Jack Kornfield