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Get busy living or get busy dying.
- Stephen King
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country
are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
- George Burns
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
- Anonymous
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon 
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Faced with the choice between changing one's mind
and proving that there is no need to do so,
almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
Keep busy - with tasks that inspire you,
motivate you, or please you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Success usually comes to those
who are too busy to be looking for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To say "too busy" is merely
to say "confused priorities."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
He who is too busy doing good
finds no time to be good.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Inaction breeds doubt and fear.
Action breeds confidence and courage.
If you want to conquer fear,
do not sit home and think about it.
Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job,
tell 'em, Certainly I Can. -
and get busy and find out how to do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Each of us is of infinite value,
and each of us has the ability to make
a profound difference in the lives we touch.
We leave our most profoundly positive impact
on those around us by the nature of our lives
and the example we set -
not by how busy we are,
or how important we believe we are.
Setting an example of being loving, relaxed and joyful,
regardless of external circumstances,
is a great legacy for our family and for the world.
Self importance - ego - is not a path to happiness.
Focusing one's whole life on responsibilities,
without taking time for self-renewal and play,
abandons the joy and the true value of life.
I want my tombstone to read, "Inspired others,"
rather than, "Never missed a day at the office."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man can never know the kind of loneliness a woman knows.
Man lies in a woman's womb only to gather strength,
he nourishes himself from this fusion,
and then he rises and goes into the world,
into his work, into battle, into art.
He is not lonely. He is busy.
The memory of the swim in amniotic fluid gives him energy, completion.
The woman may be busy too, but she feels empty.
Sensuality for her is not only a wave of pleasure
in which she has bathed,
and a charge of electric joy at contact with another.
When man lies in her womb, she is fulfilled,
each act of love a a taking of man within her,
an act of birth and rebirth, of child-bearing and man-bearing.
Man lies in her womb and is reborn each time anew
with a desire to act, to BE.
But for woman, the climax is not in the birth,
but in the moment the man rests inside of her.
- Anais Nin
One of the greatest titles we can have is "old friend."
We never appreciate how important old friends are until we are older.
The problem is we need to start our old friendships when we are young.
We then have to nurture and grow those friendships over our middle age
when a busy life and changing geographies
can cause us to neglect those friends.
Today is the day to invest in those people
we hope will call us "old friend" in the years to come.
- Grant Fairley
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
Fear of death ... That's funny. I have that too.
My dog has it. It's very common with living creatures.
- the movie Anything Else (2003)
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
Some husbands are living proof that a woman can take a joke.
- Anonymous
Science is a wonderful thing
if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
- Albert Einstein
Any idiot can face a crisis.
It's the day-to-day living that wears you out.
- Anton Chekhov
Human beings are the only creatures on the planet
who tell time and think they have to earn a living.
- Buckminster Fuller
Life is lived in the living.
Set aside convention, caution,
and arbitrary "rules" about how
life is supposed to be lived.
Choose! Explore! Adventure!
Live life to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I cannot persuade myself that a
beneficent and omnipotent God
would have designedly created parasitic wasps
with the express intention of their feeding
within the living bodies of caterpillars.
- Charles Darwin
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
Dreams pass into the reality of action.
From the actions stems the dream again;
and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
- Anais Nin
Recognize that "suffering is optional," and develop daily habits
that support living a joyful and productive life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hell is living with someone who complains, whines, and argues.
- Anonymous
The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung
Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man
... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do
every minute of every day. And the invisible man
has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do.
And if you do any of these things,
he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire
and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever,
and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream,
until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you.
He loves you and he needs money.
- George Carlin
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed.
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute
with love, grace, and gratitude.
- Denis Waitley
We are always getting ready to live but never living.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
How could youths better learn to live
than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- Henry David Thoreau
The Paradox Of Living In The Moment is -
How To Be Happy Today AND Prepare For Tomorrow
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Consistent happiness is found through
living in a state of constant gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal
of plain living and high thinking
the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants.
Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
- Horace Greeley
Everyone is born a genius,
but the process of living de-geniuses them.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day,
the benefits of globalization never come to you.
- Jimmy Carter
The educated differ from the uneducated
as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle
The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
- Thomas Jefferson
Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
Honor your past, and all the consequences of that past.
Receive insight into relieving the pain
caused by past experiences and current attitudes toward life.
Observe life as it currently appears,
and then train yourself to observe life
from other perspectives that support a higher quality of living.
Re-consider your priorities.
Chart your Course.
Set Sail with Courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I serve others by living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.
- Hafiz
Find ecstasy in life;
the mere sense of living is joy enough.
- Emily Dickinson
Rather than worrying about the continuous stream of potential threats,
let us give thanks for our blessing of living in the eye-of-the-storm -
our protected refuge from the terrors
of fearsome dangers just outside our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Compassion is the universal standard of moral living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people
than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour
looking at my face on their television screens.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
- Gail Sheehy
The challenge of living a great life is to create
a meaningful whole out of sometimes ill-fitting halves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True learning is not about facts,
but about conscious appreciation
of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Today, try something you have never tried before.
Perhaps just a food that is new to you -
perhaps a whole new way of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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