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• The Rat, meanwhile, was busy examining the label on one of the beer-bottles. "I perceive this to be Old Burton," he remarked approvingly. "Sensible Mole! The very thing! Now we shall be able to mull some ale. Get the things ready, Mole, while I draw the corks."

  Kenneth Grahame

  Beer, Moles, Labels

  Kenneth Grahame (2016). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.51, Xist Publishing

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• OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.

  Bil Keane

  Mother, Children, Parenting

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• Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Insomnia, Men

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1853). “The Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Dramatic and Poetical Works, Complete”, p.235

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• For many, many years, I was always whipping up things in order to keep myself busy and moving ever forward and saying, 'What's next? What's next? What's next?' I like the equanimity that comes with my age. I don't have big highs, and I don't have big lows. Even if this job goes away tomorrow, the nonstop ambition is a thing of the past for me. I've mellowed

  Jane Lynch

  Jobs, Moving, Ambition

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• My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.

  William Shakespeare

  Brain, Enemy, Spiders

  William Shakespeare (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.547

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• My, how busy we become when we lose sight of how God loves us.

  Julian of Norwich

  Heart, Sight, Soul

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• Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Men, Poor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.414

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• Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Sadness, Unhappy, Misery

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• I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn't get on with my own life because I was so busy with his.

  Tori Amos

  Jesus, Years, Guy

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• A narcissist society, in which each person is busy looking out for number one, can build neither brotherhood nor community. Aren't we glad in this Easter season and in all seasons that Jesus did not selfishly look out for number one? No wonder we have been told, 'Thou shalt have no other gods
  before me,' and this includes self-worship! (Ex. 20:3; emphasis added). One way or another, the grossly selfish will finally be shattered, whimpering, against the jagged, concrete consequences of their selfishness.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jesus, Easter, Selfish

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• Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite
  Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love.
  News from the humming city comes to it
  It sound of funeral or of marriage bells.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Summer, Garden, Cities

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.102, Cambridge University Press

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• Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Witty, Work, Views

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• Hello...Although you (reporters) are busy thank you for coming to this place. Today, the reason that I called you...I wanted to talk about some girl. Currently, I love a certain girl. I really love this girl too much. She is a person who finds happiness and joy in small things, when i'm with her, I'm always happy. She is also a person who told me how happiness felt like. Because of this, Because of this, because i love this girl too much, because i want to protect this girl...I am getting a divorce.

  Youngjae

  Girl, Drama, Divorce

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• More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them

  J. Harold Smith

  Wisdom, Work, Mistake

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• I have a song deep in my heart, And only I can hear it. If I close my eyes and sit very still ...It is so easy to listen to my song. When my eyes are open and I am so Busy and moving and busy, If I take time and listen very hard, I can still hear my Heartsong. It makes me feel happy. Happier than ever. Happier than everywhere And everything and everyone In the whole wide world. Happy like thinking about Going to Heaven when I die. My Heartsong sounds like this: I love you! I love you! How happy you can be! How happy you can make this whole World be.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Meaningful, Song, Moving

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• Chemistry... is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation; she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides ... for she dispenses the recipes.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Science, Medicine, Glasses

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• He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half.

  Erwin Chargaff

  Truth, Science, Men

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• [S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he still has the resources to be beneficent to those suffering distress, but the distress of others does not touch him because he is sufficiently busy with his own; and now, where no inclination any longer stimulates him to it, he tears himself out of his deadly insensibility and does the action without any inclination, solely from duty.

  Immanuel Kant

  Grief, Fate, Psychology

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• Even if there were two of me, I still couldn't do all that has to be done. No matter what, though, I keep up my running. Running every day is a kind of lifeline for me, so I'm not going to lay off or quit just because I'm busy. If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit. All I can do is keep those few reasons nicely polished.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Two Of Me, Done

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• We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact.

  Angelus Silesius

  Spiritual, Lying, Heart

  Angelus Silesius, Frederick Franck (2005). “Messenger of the Heart: The Book of Angelus Silesius with Observations by the Ancient Zen Masters”, p.91, World Wisdom, Inc

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• Look at your mind dispassionately; this is enough to calm it. When it is quiet, you can go beyond it. Do not keep it busy all the time. Stop it - and just BE.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Mind

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• Man is the being who is involuntarily and voluntarily busy with himself and his surroundings, between two broadcasting stations of good and evil, until one or the other ultimately prevails.

  Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani

  Men, Two, Evil

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• At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it. After that, there remains only the journey itself, which is nothing but the process through which we lose our ownership of it.

  Yukio Mishima

  Journey, Discipline, Preparation

  Yukio Mishima (1958). “Confessions of a Mask”, p.118, New Directions Publishing

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• Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of our modern business and academic life, but the supreme energy and disciplined curiosity required to cut new grooves.

  Hugh Nibley

  Life, Running, Business

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• A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don't allow the happy moment, because they're so busy trying to get a happy life.

  Esther Hicks

  Happy Life, People, Trying

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