Top 66 Get Busy Living Quotes
#1. Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Regina Brett
#3. Either get busy living your life or life will leave you behind.
Debasish Mridha
#4. Get busy living or get busy trying. Life will move forward with or without you. The question is; will you move forward in life without yourself?
Steven Cuoco
#5. You better get busy living, because dying's a pain in the ass.
Frank Sinatra
#6. It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Stephen King
#7. Get busy living or get busy dying ... there ain't nothing inbetween
Stephen King
#8. Get busy living, or get busy dying. That's goddam right.
Stephen King
#9. You can get busy living, get busy dying, or get busy writing.
Anon
#10. It simply comes down to this, Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Dying.
Tim Robbins
#11. Get busy living the life of your dreams instead of looking for the man or woman of your dreams.
Regina Brett
#12. Sometimes we get so busy pursuing our dream that we forget to notice the degree to which we're living it already.
Victoria Moran
#13. If I looked into a mirror, and did not see my face, I should have the sort of feeling which actually comes upon me, when I look into this living busy world, and see no reflexion of its Creator.
John Henry Newman
#14. I believe it doesn't matter what it is, as long as you can find something concrete to keep you busy while you are living your meaningless life.
Ruth Ozeki
#15. I think this is the greatest and best country in all the world, with its great sunlit spaces and its long long roads, and best of all the roads that are not made yet, and the stories that no one has told because they are too busy living them.
Nellie L. McClung
#16. Sometimes we are so busy living our fears that we forgot to live our dreams
Steven Aitchison
#17. Dinah could spend the rest of her life living by her word, giving everyone a fair shake, and all of that. Rufus would no doubt approve of all those things. But it was not the charge he had given her. He had told her, though not in so many words, to get busy building a future.
Neal Stephenson
#18. Sometimes, Casey, people spend their whole lives living for a dream they can't have. And these people are so busy, so greedy for their dream that they forget all the good things they already have.
Sarah Rubin
#19. The busy man is busy with everything except living; there is nothing that is more difficult to learn how to do right.
Seneca.
#20. It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
#21. When you are busy with living your life, age can never find you to make her mark.
Debasish Mridha
#22. I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you're too busy living.
F.K. Preston
#23. It wasn't until I slowed the car and rolled down the windows that I realized I spend most of my days driving 'through' life without driving 'in' life. So, I've decided to walk because the pace is slower and the windows are always down.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#24. He's too busy living to talk about dying. -Cara
Jodi Picoult
#26. Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting - or he'll come along and nibble your brain.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#27. I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the things that happened when I finished 'Drown' was that I got busy living. I'd never travelled, I'd never seen anything. So I did as much travelling as my job teaching would allow.
Junot Diaz
#28. You said that you would've taken back that day if you were given a chance. But I ask you why? All things happen for a reason, right? We don't understand the details of our lives because we're so busy living day to day. We need to take a few steps back and take the whole picture in.
Amy Astorga
#29. Jek is too busy living. She won't waste time on regrets.
Robin Hobb
#30. Another funny thing about living in this city is how easy it can be to lose track of people. We're all so busy, always rushing around, so wrapped up in our own stuff. It stops occurring to us to check in with friends. I mean REALLY check in with them.
Ryan Kelly
#31. Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#32. We can busy ourselves with living or with dying, Ove. We have to move on. And that's how it was.
Fredrik Backman
#33. People are often so busy living that they never stop to wonder why.
Terry Pratchett
#34. I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.
Pierre Trudeau
#35. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.
Seneca The Younger
#36. And you fathers, are you so busy making a living, playing golf, bowling, hunting, that you do not have time to talk to your boys and hold them close to you and win their confidence? Or do you brush them off, so that they dare not come and talk about these things with you?
Spencer W. Kimball
#37. For three centuries the life of the Hebrews was like the life of a man who insists upon living in the middle of a busy thoroughfare, and is consequently being run over constantly by omnibuses and motor-lorries. Pul
H.G.Wells
#38. Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.
Dolly Parton
#39. In the midst of a busy life don't forget to live.
Marty Rubin
#40. Most of us are busy gambling on the most dangerous risk of all - living our whole life not doing what we want on the bet that we can buy the freedom to do it later.
Jake Ducey
#41. There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.
Franz Schubert
#42. Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of difference. Here they are all along, busy with living; they don't talk or look like me. The rhythm of their day is entirely different; I am foreign.
Frances Mayes
#43. You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes everyday - unless you're too busy; then you should sit for an hour.
Sukhraj S. Dhillon
#44. One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, talkative busy men living frightened, fragmented lives of quiet desperation.
Robert McNamara
#45. See, here's the thing. Morgan was right: you can't win them all. But that doesn't mean that you give up. Not ever. Morgan never said that part - he was too busy living it.
Jim Butcher
#46. My daughter recently reminded me not to get so busy making a living, I forget to make a life and I'm going to take that advice.
Angie Stone
#47. Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.
John Sterling
#48. It seems to be a universal generality that while the old want to reminisce, the young are too busy living to bother.
Doc Sanborn
#49. Emotions buzz through our beings like busy bees, giving us the gift of living vividly.
Amy Leigh Mercree
#50. When we are in Christ His goals are now our goals, and we are to be busy with his work on earth.
J. Aaron Gruben
#51. Often, those who bruise easily spend too much time thinking about themselves. I'd go so far as to say that oversensitivity is a privilege of the underoccupied. The majority of people don't have the time to lavish care on emotional wounds - they're too busy getting on with living.
Mariella Frostrup
#52. Most people are so busy living they neglect to take the time to ask why.
Gene Simmons
#53. I tend to compete every weekend with racing so I'm very busy training for both. The travelling is a lot but I have been living this lifestyle so long now that I am used to it. I am so busy the only proper rest I get is when I'm sitting on the plane.
Liz Halliday
#54. Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living; now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!
Diablo Cody
#55. She was not busy dying, and there is no detritus of care, she was simply busy living, and then she was gone. She
Max Porter
#56. Too many people, too many demands, too much to do; competent, busy, hurrying people - It just isn't living at all.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#57. You should appreciate those things while you have them, but you never do. Not all the way. Too busy living. Now and again, you should try to stop to appreciate the little things. They'll build up if you do.
Nora Roberts
#58. I don't have much time, I have to haul corpses. I don't have much time, I have to breath, eat, drink, sleep. I don't have much time, I have to keep the gears meshing. I don't have much time, I'm busy living. I don't have much time, I'm busy dying.
Roberto Bolano
#59. She was far too busy living out a passionate romance with Jesus Christ to be pining after an earthly prince.
Leslie Ludy
#60. Joy comes to us in moments - ordinary moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary. Scarcity culture may keep us afraid of living small, ordinary lives, but when you talk to people who have survived great losses, it is clear that joy is not a constant.
Brene Brown
#61. Occupy your thoughts with purpose and you will be so busy pursuing a meaningful future there will be no time for doubt, chaos and disappointment.
Carlos Wallace
#62. Let's get busy. Get up! Stop living an average life. Stop living in a rut. Get ready for a new way to walk and talk. Taller, louder, prouder and thoroughly convinced that you have enough hope in your life to give some away.
J. Loren Norris
#63. That's what you were trying to say, isn't it? I mean, I think ... mostly we're too busy living to stop and notice we're alive. But that sometimes we do. And that that makes the rest of it matter.
Neil Gaiman
#64. People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.
Robert A. Heinlein
#65. I'm just too busy living every day to really spend a lot of time thinking 'am I old?' I'm this age. I am in this moment and in this life.
Emmylou Harris
#66. If heaven really exists: then, technically, living is an activity that believers keep themselves busy with - while they wait for their death.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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