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• I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

  Garrison Keillor

  Children, Thinking, Age

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• Real Freedom is to not feel limited when wearing this Zen robe, this troublesome formal robe. Similarly, in our busy life we should wear this civilization without being bothered by it, without ignoring it, without being caught by it.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Real, Civilization, Busy

  "Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen". Book by Shunryū Suzuki. Chapter: "Not Always So", p. 95, 2002.

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• I lead a very busy life and don't have a lot of time, so my skincare needs to be easy and portable.

  Erin O'Connor

  Needs, Busy, Easy

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• I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

  Anthony Doerr

  Thinking, Lakes, Sea

  Penguin Group Interview, www.encyclopedia.com. 2006.

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• Do you think I could bear to live on after you died? Oh, Lyra, I'd follow you down to the world of the dead without thinking twice about it, just like you followed Roger; and that would be two lives gone for nothing, my life wasted like yours. No, we should spend our whole lifetimes together, good long busy lives, and if we can't spend them together, we... we'll have to spend them apart.

  Philip Pullman

  Thinking, Two, Long

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. . . I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Mind, Want, Busy

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• The thing is that I am a member of that sad, ever-dwindling minority... the child of an unbroken home. I have carried this albatross since the age of eleven, when I started at grammar school. Not a day would pass without somebody I knew turning out to be adopted or illegitimate, or to have mothers who were about to hare off with some bloke, or to have dead fathers and shabby stepfathers. What busy lives they led. How I envied their excuses for introspection, their ear-marked receptacles for every just antagonism and noble loyalty.

  Martin Amis

  Loyalty, Mother, Children

  Martin Amis (1973). “The Rachel papers”, Jonathan Cape

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• What is it but a map of busy life,
  Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?

  William Cowper

  Life, Maps, Busy

  William COWPER (1835). “The works of his life and letters”, p.37

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• If we do not allow for a rhythm of rest in our overly busy lives, illness becomes our Sabbath— our pneumonia, our cancer, our heart attack, our accidents create Sabbath for us.

  Wayne Muller

  Cancer, Heart, Pneumonia

  Wayne Muller (2013). “Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives”, p.20, Bantam

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• All it takes is to pick up that one piece of trash you pass everyday on your way to work. Or to turn the water faucet off when you're brushing your teeth from afar. Or to compost. Or to buy 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper. Or to utilize vintage stores and secondhand markets. Or to fully devote yourself to only buying vegetables from local sources. It is remarkably easy to incorporate sustainable choices into our everyday, busy lives.

  Shailene Woodley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

  Leon Edel

  Death, House, Mind

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• If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with your business.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Business, Busy, Ifs

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• Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer.

  Kent McCord

  Children, Real, Home

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• Error is always more busy than truth.

  Hosea Ballou

  Errors, Busy

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• Stress is not caused by your busy life or challenging circumstances, it's simply the result of an imbalance between silence and activity.

  Jerry Thomas

  Stress, Silence, Challenges

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• I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Ideas, Busy, Enough

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• When you start so young working, you build a hunger for acting, working, and a busy life.

  Bonnie Wright

  Acting, Busy, Hunger

  Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 21, 2011.

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• Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.

  Major Owens

  Compassion, Competition, Busy

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• I always find something to keep me busy.

  Amy Sedaris

  Busy

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• The day of fortune is like a harvest day,
  We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

  Torquato Tasso

  Corn On The Cob, Busy, Corny

  "Torquato Tasso". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Act IV, scene IV, line 63, 1790.

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• What is the biggest obstacle facing the family right now? It is over-commitment; time pressure. There is nothing that will destroy family life more insidiously than hectic schedules and busy lives, where spouses are too exhausted to communicate, too worn out to have sex, too fatigued to talk to the kids. That frantic lifestyle is just as destructive as one involving outbroken sin. If Satan can't make you sin, he'll make you busy, and that's just about the same thing.

  James Dobson

  Sex, Stress, Kids

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• Fitting a walk into a busy life can be challenging, so I suggest walking rather driving to work or to run errands as often as you can - in other words, think of walking as alternative transportation.

  Andrew Weil

  Running, Thinking, Challenges

  "Walk Like An Australian, Lose 10 Pounds" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 29, 2012.

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• Success is hard in general for most women. We now have such busy lives, and we're told we can do everything - you know, we can have the relationship and the marriage and the kids and the career.

  Cat Deeley

  Kids, Careers, Busy

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• Women are much more comfortable making their own style rules now. They want pieces that will make their busy lives easier.

  Michael Kors

  Style, Pieces, Want

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• If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

  Marie Dressler

  Time, Picnics, Ants

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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