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• Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy of consumerism.

  Pope John Paul II

  Christian, Care, Want

  Pope John Paul II (1984). “John Paul II and the Laity”, Le Jacq Pub

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• For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting himselfand others. He doesn't use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people he loves.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Mean

  "The Wheel of Time: The Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts about Life, Death and the Universe". Book by Carlos Castaneda, November 24, 2009.

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• Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.189, Island Press

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• You say that love is nonsense. I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

  Henry Adams

  Love, Broken Heart, Pain

  Henry Adams (2015). “Democracy: An American Novel!”, p.168, eKitap Projesi (PublishDrive)

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• There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Happiness, Fun, Occupation

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.6, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• To sustain hatred is a very difficult thing to do, year after year. It's exhausting.

  Nick Cave

  Years, Hatred, Difficult

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• The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Vision, Can Do

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• Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Inspirational, Thinking, People

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work”, p.187, e-artnow

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• The irony of multitasking is that it's exhausting: when you're doing two or three things simultaneously, you use more energy than the sum of energy required to do each task independently. You're also cheating yourself because your're not doing anything excellently. You're compromising your virtuosity. In the words of T. S. Elliot, you're 'distracted from distractions by distractions'.

  Twyla Tharp

  Cheating, Two, Energy

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm very efficient and the people who work with me always say that - they know when they have a day with me it's going to be really exhausting because I love to fit as much in as possible.

  Eva Longoria

  People, Fit, Efficient

  "The Sentinel - Eva Longoria interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling.

  John Lithgow

  Stage, Mediums, Thrilling

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• I totally love my job, and I wake up every day basically thinking about how can I do my job better. It never feels like a job. It's hard, and it's exhausting sometimes, but it never feels like - I would do this even if they didn't pay me to do it. That's a pretty amazing feeling.

  Brit Marling

  Jobs, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't know what's more exhausting about parenting: the getting up early, or acting like you know what you're doing.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Up Early, Acting, Like You

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• Eating when you're not hungry and taking in that amount of food is exhausting.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Eating, Hungry, Amount

  "Chris Hemsworth Added 20 Pounds Of Muscle For 'Thor'" by Danica Davidson, www.mtv.com. April 19, 2011.

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• I could use a little monotony in my life. Spontaneity is exhausting.

  A. Meredith Walters

  Use, Littles, Spontaneity

  A. Meredith Walters (2014). “Find You in the Dark”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the sad realities of being a parent is that the same stuff you know is exciting, educational, and enriching in your child'slife is often messy, smelly and exhausting to deal with.

  Joyce Maynard

  Children, Educational, Reality

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• Today's competitiveness, so much imposed from without, is exhausting, not exhilarating; is unending-a part of one's social life, one's solitude, one's sleep, one's sleeplessness.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Sleep, Competition, Solitude

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• I think sometimes that it is almost a pity to enjoy Italy as much as I do, because the acuteness of my sensations makes them rather exhausting; but when I see the stupid Italians I have met here, completely insensitive to their surroundings, and ignorant of the treasures of art and history among which they have grown up, I begin to think it is better to be an American, and bring to it all a mind and eye unblunted by custom.

  Edith Wharton

  Art, Stupid, Eye

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• I often saw weary little women coming to the table after most exhausting labors, and large, bumptious husbands spreading out their hands and thanking the Lord for the meals that the dear women had prepared, as if the whole came down like manna from heaven. So I preached a sermon in the blessing I gave. You will notice that it has three heresies in it: Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity's sake, Amen.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Mother, Husband, Father

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• Joy could be as exhausting as grief.

  Helen Kieran Reilly

  Grief, Joy

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• Full color experience is peculiarly satisfying even though it is exhausting and leaves you feeling two-thirds color blind when you're not making the effort.

  William Tapley Bennett Jr.

  Color, Two, Effort

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• The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting.

  Gertrude Stein

  Vacation, Extended Family

  "Paris France". Book by Gertrude Stein, p. 107, 1970.

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• All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.

  Thomas Sowell

  Truth, Smart, Knowledge

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.318, Hoover Press

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• Initiate giving. Don't wait for someone to ask. See what happens - especially to you. You may find that you gain a greater clarity about yourself and about your relationships, as well as more energy rather than less. You may find that, rather than exhausting yourself or your resources, you will replenish them. Such is the power of mindful, selfless generosity. At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient . . . only the universe rearranging itself.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Generosity, Giving, Waiting

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• Nature is boundless in her powers, exhausting in her variety: the powers of Art and its capabilities of variety in production are bounded on every side. Nature herself, the infinite, has circumscribed the bounds of finite Art. The one is the divinity; the other the priestess.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Art, Nature, Divinity

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