“ The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest but wholeheartedness... we are typically exhausted because we are not doing our TRUE work. Gordon T. Smith
“ Exhaustion is temporary. Pain is temporary. But Helene dying because I didn't find a way to get her back on time—that's permanent. Sabaa Tahir
“ My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has a grayish cast. The bed, across the room, calls in its unmistakable lover's croon, Come to me, come, only I c… Lynne Sharon Schwartz
“ The air in my home is heavy with my mom's unhappiness. And her exhaustion. And her sheer dissatisfaction with her life. And I hate it. I can be up in my room when she's in the kitchen below and I feel… Laura Buzo
“ Incidentally her head ached and her shoulders ached and her lungs ached and the ankle-bones of both feet ached quite excruciatingly. But nothing of her felt permanently incapacitated except her noble… Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
“ It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion. Edmondo de Amicis
“ What needed to stop was the succession of dates with these relatively impressive, relatively interesting people, when I could tell from the first minute that everyone here was going to end as a runner… B.J. Novak
“ Becoming aware of our inner man and woman means to discover the roots and creative potential of both the male and female aspect within ourselves. Becoming aware of the inner man and woman means to und… Swami Dhyan Giten
“ MaturityA stationary sense . . . as, I suppose,I shall have, till my single body grows Inaccurate, tired;Then I shall start to feel the backward pullTake over, sickening and masterful — Some say, de Philip Larkin
“ Each period had required me to be a slightly different person, and that was exhausting. I wondered if school had always felt this way and whether it was like this for everone. Gabrielle Zevin
“ And the looks on the faces of my countrymenpassive heads bent arms at their trousers everyone guilty of not being their best of not earning their daily bread the kind of docility I had never expected… Gary Shteyngart
“ For intuitive people, it can be exhausting having to constantly manage other people’s emotional needs on personal social media accounts. Sam Owen
“ If I get up just one less time than the number of times I’ve been knocked down, I have done one of the most devastating things possible; I have halted my life at that very spot. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ For me, it was a lonely season. Whenever I got home and took off my clothes, I felt as if any second my bones would burst through my skin. Like some unknown force inside me had taken a wrong turn some… Haruki Murakami
“ Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you exhaust your significance. Criss Jami
“ The hardest chore to do, and to do right, is to think. Why do you think the common man would choose labor, partially, as a distraction from his own thoughts? It is because that level of stress, he mos… Criss Jami
