Charles Lee Quotes

There are a whole lot of people who are so freakin' busy—they've so cluttered up their lives—they're at their wits' end. And if they'd only just stop for a minute, they could hear the God of the universe whisper to them, “I love you.

We Americans are living a lifestyle of exhaustion. We don't have time for ourselves, much less for each other and our children.

Too many people, too many demands, too much to do; competent, busy, hurrying people - It just isn't living at all.

Let's be honest; it's rather easy to be busy. We all can think up a list of tasks that will overwhelm our schedules. Some might even think that their self-worth depends on the length of their to-do list. They flood the open spaces in their time with lists of meetings and minutia - even during times of stress and fatigue.

Of course having a baby derails the writing process for some time. And I will be the first to say that I have essentially no social life, because there's just nothing left after being a mom, professor, and writer. I used to be big into rock climbing. No more. A lot falls by the wayside.

We live very busy lives. But everyone has a spare minute.

We are so busy that the truth about our lives can't catch up.

Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.

If you don't enjoy it, then putting in the long hours is going to take their toll.

A Superwoman isn't a woman who can do anything, but a woman who avoids doing too much.

Busyness kills more Christians than bullets.

I don't ever rest. It's a problem and hopefully something I will get a better handle on in the coming years.

I don't know that anyone in the United States is taught to rest.

Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout.

We have this cultural obsession with work and productivity as if we're better people if we don't stop and take some time for ourselves.

If any of those times you rushed around madly - trying to get somewhere faster - had ever made any real difference in the quality of your life... don't you think you'd be able to slow down by now?

For years, I'd say yes to almost everything, trying to be nice and generous. Feeling obliged to be of service to the world. Maybe also a fear of being forgotten if I don't. But I paid the ultimate price in doing that, because for all those years, I got almost no work done! Some famous authors have written about this: that if they said yes to every request, then they'd never have time to write another book again.

I have fun when I want to have fun, but I am learning how to balance my life out.

Time And well being are two valuable belongings that we do not acknowledge and respect till they've been depleted.

In the early days I was incredibly creative and productive - I loved the research trips, I loved the creation and finding technical solutions to creative challenges. I didn't need alcohol and the pills for that. What changed was, I was afraid to say no - that little word, N.O. Because I thought it showed weakness. And with more and more success I would just say yes. And keep on taking more work on - which took its toll.

A person has to be busy to be alive.

Life seems to be busy for most people and if you know you are doing the best you can then there really is nothing more you can do then that.

The advice I would give to my younger self is very, very simple: Stop burning the candle at both ends and renew your estranged relationship with sleep. You will be more productive, more effective, more creative, and more likely to enjoy your life.

I envy people who can think, 'No, I'm not going to work today' when they have a huge pile of deadlines stacking up.

A 'harmonized' life these days sounds like a tall order. Between housework, homework, workwork, and busywork, there are perpetually too many things to do, and not enough time to find that mythical balance. Nothing is more frustrating than feeling like you're doing doing doing but getting nothing truly done that you really want.