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• Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.

  Angela Davis

  Adjectives, Invisible, Capture

  Angela Y. Davis (2011). “Women, Race, & Class”, p.222, Vintage

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• To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Fun, Serious Work, Anarchy

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1980). “Off Center: Essays”

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• There would be very little point in my exhausting myself and other conservationists themselves in trying to protect animals and habitats if we weren't at the same time raising young people to be better stewards.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, People, Earth Day

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• Even though modern life in many ways is nothing short of exhausting, we need to take responsibility for what is necessary to combat the stress and exhaustion of modern life.

  Marianne Williamson

  Stress, Responsibility, Needs

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Defending mediocrity is exhausting.

  Seth Godin

  Mediocrity

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.32, Penguin

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• Trying to obey and serve God before we've come to love Him can be exhausting.

  Beth Moore

  Trying, Serving God

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• If shaytan has entered into your heart - evil will look beautiful to you and good will seem tiring and exhausting.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Beautiful, Heart, Evil

  Nouman Ali Khan “Tafsir Juz Amma: A collection of transcribed notes from the Tafsir lecture series by Sh. Nouman Ali Khan”, Rahil Tarique

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• Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.

  Tom Peters

  Peace, Mistake, Passion

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.116, Vintage

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• I think it's also different when you're younger, too and your whole life is exposed. You know, it is probably exhausting and a little spiritually depleting, but you just find ways to fill up and do things For me it's simple things.

  Kate Walsh

  Simple, Thinking, Different

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things.

  M. L. Stedman

  Resent You, Forgiving, Treasure

  M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• Living life in separate compartments can lead to internal conflict and exhausting tension.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Live Life, Conflict, Tension

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• I thought being faithful was about becoming someone other than who I was...it wasn't until I failed that I began to wonder if my human wholeness might be more useful to God than my exhausting goodness.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Faithful, Might, Becoming

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• Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't.

  Rick Warren

  Positivity, Coaching, Wearing A Mask

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• Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce a cheerful frame of mind, not boisterous mirth; such as refresh, instead of exhausting, the system; such as recur frequently, rather than continue long; such as send us back to our daily duties invigorated in body and spirit; such as we can partake of in the presence and society of respectable friends; such as consist with and are favorable to a grateful piety; such as are chastened by self-respect, and are accompanied with the consciousness that life has a higher end than to be amused.

  William Ellery Channing

  Life, Fun, Grateful

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• The word of God is a tree of life that offers us blessed fruit from each of its branches. It is like that rock which was struck open in the wilderness, from which all were offered spiritual drink. Be glad then that you are overwhelmed, and do not be saddened because he has overcome you. A thirsty person is happy when drinking, and not depressed, because the spring is inexhaustible. You can satisfy your thirst without exhausting the spring; then when you thirst again, you can drink from it once more.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Spiritual, Spring, Drinking

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• The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.

  Delta Goodrem

  Age, Albums, Serious

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• Adoption is rewarding. But the process, as we have already detailed in some particulars, can be expensive, exhausting, and hard to sustain on a dream, much less a whim.

  Scott Simon

  Dream, Adoption, Process

  Scott Simon (2010). “Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption”, p.49, Random House

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• We will only advance in our evangelistic work as fast and as far as we advance on our knees. Prayer opens the channel between a soul and God; prayerlessness closes it. Prayer releases the grip of Satan's power; prayerlessness increases it. That is why prayer is so exhausting and so vital. If we believed it, the prayer meeting would be as full as the church.

  Alan Redpath

  Christian, Prayer, Soul

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• There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth.

  Scott Simon

  Adoption, Doe, Want

  Scott Simon (2010). “Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption”, p.7, Random House

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• Sometimes I'm not so sure how healthy it is because it's exhausting to put all your emotion into your work, but I guess I should be thankful for that. I don't want the work to be about anything else but the truth and honesty.

  Jose Parla

  Honesty, Being Thankful, Healthy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As an actor, it's exhausting being someone else. It's not physically demanding, but it's mentally demanding, if you do the job the way you should.

  Brendan Fehr

  Jobs, Actors, Way

  "Brendan Fehr Talks THE NIGHT SHIFT, Research for the Role, ROSWELL 15th Anniversary, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 6, 2014.

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• It's exhausting I think to just say really yes to everything for real, even if you do it for a day.

  Jim Carrey

  Real, Thinking, Ifs

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• The teaching is very rewarding, and very time-consuming, and very exhausting. But it's wonderful. The community here at NYU is very precious to me.

  Sharon Olds

  Teaching, Nyu, Community

  Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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• The endless bonking was exhausting me.

  Joan Collins

  Endless

  Joan Collins (2013). “Passion for Life”, p.94, Hachette UK

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• Stop protesting the hand you've been dealt! Become partners with your life instead of making it an exhausting wrestling match.

  Judith Orloff

  Wrestling, Emotional, Hands

  Judith Orloff, M.D. (2014). “The Power of Surrender: Let Go and Energize Your Relationships, Success, and Well-Being”, p.311, Harmony

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