Quotes about Exhaustion
I love making movies. But it's a lot of investing your heart and soul. It can be exhausting.
- Gia Coppola
This God expects people to be perfect and to be in perpetual control of their feelings and thoughts. When broken people with this concept of God fail—as inevitably they must—they usually expect punishment. So they persevere in religious practices as they struggle to maintain a hollow image of a perfect self. The struggle itself is exhausting. The legalists can never live up to the expectations they project on God.
- Brennan Manning
Exhaustion, burnout, and depression are not signs that you are doing God's will. God is gentle and loving. God desires to give you a deep sense of safety in God's love. Once you have allowed yourself to experience that love fully, you will be better able to discern who you are being sent to in God's name.
- Henri Nouwen
There are many times when I cannot pray, when I am too tired to read the gospels, too restless to have spiritual thoughts, too depressed to find words for God, or too exhausted to do anything. But I can still look at these images so intimately connected with the experience of love.
- Henri Nouwen
When we were travelling in different countries I felt like I was jetlagged eight months of the year.
- Phil Taylor
vivimos nuestras vidas con prisa, intentando encontrar y ahorrar tiempo, nos encontraremos siempre faltos de él, estresados y exhaustos. «Hacia
- Arianna Huffington
People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it, they even forget to wash or eat.
- Marcus Aurelius
Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.
- Margaret Atwood
not the shore but an aquarium filled with exhausted water and warm seaweed
- Margaret Atwood
But there's the catch. I'd like to live that seemingly carefree and happy life for an evening, a few days, a week. At the end of that week I'd be exhausted, and would be grateful to the first person to talk to me about something meaningful. I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile. The circle around me would be much smaller, but what does that matter, as long as they're sincere?
- Anne Frank
The beginning of forgiveness is often exhaustion. You're pooped; thank God.
- Anne Lamott
Having a baby is like suddenly getting the world's worst roommate, like having Janis Joplin with a bad hangover and PMS come to stay with you.
- Anne Lamott