Quick Quotes“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.”
― Thomas A. Edison
WIST QuotationsA quotation from Samuel Johnson
There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps in perpetual agitation and hurries him from place to place.Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1759-03-17), The Idler, No. 48
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Johnson, Samuel - Essay (1759-03-17), The Idler, No. 48 | WIST Quotations
There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps in perpetual agitation and hurries him from place to…
SpiritualKhazaanaHaving a Mary Heart in a Martha World: Finding Intimacy With God in the Busyness of Life
In the modern era, the “hustle culture” isn’t just a professional trend; it’s a spiritual epidemic. We wear our busyness like a badge of honor, yet internally, many of us feel like a dry sponge—porous, empty, and desperately needing a soak in something deeper. More details… https://spiritualkhazaana.com/having-a-mary-heart-in-a-martha-world/
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In the modern era, the “hustle culture” isn’t just a professional trend; it’s a spiritual epidemic. We wear our busyness like a badge of honor, yet internally, many of us feel like a dry sponge—porous, empty, and desperately needing a soak in something deeper. More details… https://spiritualkhazaana.com/having-a-mary-heart-in-a-martha-world/
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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
Look at one of your industrious fellows for a moment, I beseech you. He sows hurry and reaps indigestion; he puts a vast deal of activity out to interest, and receives a large measure of nervous derangement in return. Either he absents himself entirely from all fellowship, and lives a recluse in a garret, with carpet slippers and a leaden inkpot; or he comes among people swiftly and bitterly, in a contraction of his whole nervous system, to discharge some temper before he returns to work. I do not care how much or how well he works, this fellow is an evil feature in other people’s lives. They would be happier if he were dead. They could easier do without his services in the Circumlocution Office, than they can tolerate his fractious spirits. He poisons life at the well-head. It is better to be beggared out of hand by a scapegrace nephew, than daily hag-ridden by a peevish uncle.Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1877-07), “An Apology for Idlers,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 36
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Stevenson, Robert Louis - Essay (1877-07), "An Apology for Idlers," Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 36 | WIST Quotations
Look at one of your industrious fellows for a moment, I beseech you. He sows hurry and reaps indigestion; he puts a vast deal of activity out to interest, and receives a large measure of nervous derangement in return. Either he absents himself entirely from all fellowship, and lives a…
WIST Quotations Has Moved!A quotation from George Bernard Shaw
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active, which is pleasanter than any happiness until you are tired of it.George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish playwright and critic
Treatise on Parents and Children, “Children’s Happiness” (1914)
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The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: Life-Changing Guide to Slowing Down in a Speed-Obsessed Age
In today’s fast-paced world, the constant rush and overload of information can feel overwhelming, leaving many emotionally exhausted, spiritually dry, and desperately searching for peace. John Mark Comer’s The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry offers a profound antidote to the... More details… https://spiritualkhazaana.com/the-ruthless-elimination-of-hurry-guide/
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In today’s fast-paced world, the constant rush and overload of information can feel overwhelming, leaving many emotionally exhausted, spiritually dry, and desperately searching for peace. John Mark Comer’s The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry offers a profound antidote to the... More details… https://spiritualkhazaana.com/the-ruthless-elimination-of-hurry-guide/
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Being with Busyness — A Path to Transform Overwhelm and Burnout : Zen Master Wisdom
The relentless pace of modern life has made busyness, overwhelm, and burnout global epidemics. We live in a society that often equates our worth with our productivity, leaving us feeling perpetually stressed, disconnected, and exhausted. But what if the answer isn’t to fight busyness, but ... More details… https://spiritualkhazaana.com/being-with-busyness-transform-overwhelm-zen/
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The relentless pace of modern life has made busyness, overwhelm, and burnout global epidemics. We live in a society that often equates our worth with our productivity, leaving us feeling perpetually stressed, disconnected, and exhausted. But what if the answer isn’t to fight busyness, but ... More details… https://spiritualkhazaana.com/being-with-busyness-transform-overwhelm-zen/
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He who puts off the hour to begin living rightly
Is like the yokel who stands at the stream with a sigh:
“I can’t get across. I’ll wait here till it runs dry.”
Meanwhile, it flows, forever flows on and rolls by.
[Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam,
rusticus exspectat dum defluat amnis; at ille
labitur et labitur in omne volubilis aevum.]
Is like the yokel who stands at the stream with a sigh:
“I can’t get across. I’ll wait here till it runs dry.”
Meanwhile, it flows, forever flows on and rolls by.
[Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam,
rusticus exspectat dum defluat amnis; at ille
labitur et labitur in omne volubilis aevum.]
Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 41ff (1.2.41-42) (20 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]
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Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 "To Lollius," l. 41ff (1.2.41-42) (20 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)] - Horace | WIST Quotations
He who puts off the hour to begin living rightly Is like the yokel who stands at the stream with a sigh: "I can't get across. I'll wait here till it runs dry." Meanwhile, it flows, forever flows on and rolls by. [Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam, rusticus exspectat dum…
A quotation from George Carlin
Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that shit.George Carlin (1937-2008) American comedian
Book (1997), Brain Droppings, “Short Takes [Part 2]”
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Steve Dustcircle 🌹"Why #DoingLess Made Me #Achieve More -- I used to wear my #busyness as a badge of honor. Then I realized it was just a cage."
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