"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do."
"Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions."
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Source: What Love Looks Like. Interview with Terry Tempest Williams, orionmagazine.org. May 28, 2011.
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