it's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly.
Interpretation
Focus on your own responsibilities and do not meddle in others' affairs.
In this quote, Scrooge emphasizes the importance of personal accountability and the idea that individuals should primarily concentrate on their own duties and lives, rather than getting involved in what others are doing. This perspective highlights a wisdom that can lead to a more peaceful and productive existence, suggesting that managing one's own business is a full-time job in itself.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-improvement and focus.
I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.
A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
You might, from your appearance, be the wife of Lucifer,” said Miss Pross, in her breathing. “Nevertheless, you shall not get the better of me. I am an Englishwoman.
Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.
The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.
One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
"Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.
Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.