Always keep your head up. You will not see the blessings that are all around you if you’re so busy looking down at your feet.

Dear God, please don’t let me be too busy to recognize your blessings, or hear your voice.

I walked away because you were too busy finding faults in me while I was busy overlooking yours.

We went up the Harbor freeway north and then we cut onto the San Diego freeway north. I hated the San Diego freeway. It always jammed. Then I noticed a slight rain beginning to fall.

“That’s it,” I said, “it’s beginning to rain.” All the cars were going to stop. California drivers didn’t know how to drive in the rain.

Busy old fool, unruly Sophie.

I think of you only twice a day. While I am doing something, and when I am sitting idle.

If you want a good barber you have to deal with a busy barber.

Even if I was the busiest person in the world, I’d always find time for you.

He picked up the skull and knocked an onion ring out of its eye socket.
“I see Sophie has been busy again. Couldn’t you have restrained her, my friend?” The skull yattered its teeth at him. Howl put it down rather hastily.

Cultivate your own garden and let go of your tendency to examine and judge how others cultivate theirs. Catch yourself in moments of gossip about how others ought to be living and rid yourself of thoughts about how they should be doing it this way, or how they have no right to live and think as they do. Stay busy and involved in your own projects and pursuits.

I’m too busy working my own grass to notice if yours is greener.

If you mind your own business, you’ll stay busy all the time.