Top 32 Life Pondering Quotes
#1. The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.
Sinclair Lewis
#2. Systems and processes are essential to keep the crusade going, but they should not replace the crusade.
Simon Sinek
#3. She had filled her days mourning that shadow life, and it had no more meaning than the chattering of monkeys. Instead, these last few weeks, she had seen what might have been had she not felt perpetually done out of something better.
Anna Quindlen
#4. For some people, there is no succession plan. They just leave, and there's no getting over it.
Hugh Hefner
#5. The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living
Socrates
#6. What is this called, what I am doing, to myself, to my life, this wallowing, this pondering, this rolling over and over in the same places of my memory, wearing them thin, wearing them out? Why don't I ever learn? Why don't I ever do anything different?
Charles Yu
#7. I was pondering the reason why we are all here in this life, and what did it all mean. It seemed to me that we had all been invited to one big party, but no-one's been told what we're all celebrating.
Beatrice James
#8. The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you ... and then, the worse things get.
Frank Zappa
#9. It's definitely like being in some weird sorority. I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest.
Ana Gasteyer
#10. I hope to die with dignity and not be on my death bed pondering the afterlife wearing a diaper named Depends.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#11. The magic of each day lives in the unknown. It's waking up as one person, and accepting that when night falls, we may be someone else entirely. So, when you ask what my story is, forgive me----I'm not quite sure yet.
J. Raymond
#12. The American civil space program is growing to maturity. It has passed through the joys and crises of precocious childhood and now is being called upon to do grown-up things, like earn a living and establish permanent roots in space.
John Noble Wilford
#13. Challenge anything that could step into your plans with the intention of acting as a resistance towards your fulfillment.
Israelmore Ayivor
#14. I continue pondering this great mystery called love. Who'd have thought that something you can't see, hear or touch, much less even define, could rule your life so completely?
Brenna Aubrey
#16. The amount of time an individual may spend pondering over what his neighbor has and what he does not, is equivalent to the amount of time the individual has lost in becoming an equal to his neighbors.
Victoria Addino
#17. I suppose that one of the greatest benefits of studying Isaiah is the process of studying Isaiah. Searching the scriptures puts you in a pondering, searching frame of mind in which inspiration can come, allowing you to find ways to apply scriptural truths to your life.
John Bytheway
#18. Reflection is nothing more than what it sounds, and pondering one's own life is about as productive as talking to one's image in a mirror: both acts are egocentric and neither produces a dialog. People who talk to themselves in public are not self-actualized; they're crazy.
Anthony Marais
#19. I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.
P.G. Wodehouse
#20. Not every gay person recites poetry or has read Keats. You can get readers through anything if the characters are complicated. You can't dismiss Josey Wales' quite liberal worldview.
Marlon James
#21. The essence of life is not in living, but in pondering and loving.
Debasish Mridha
#22. Before a leader can be accepted, let alone succeed, autonomous professionals must agree to be influenced by that person.
David Maister
#23. The one who has found inner silence, stops pondering over the meaning of life and starts living it. That's the journey from "going with the flow" to "being the flow.
Rashmit Kalra
#24. Celaena pulled another book toward her and grinned. It was as if someone had read her mind. It was a large black volume entitled The Walking Dead in tarnished silver letters. Thankfully, the captain didn't see the title before she opened it.
Sarah J. Maas
#25. Any serious pondering of all of life through the Golden Rule is dangerous for our moral health because it will summon us - I know I feel this way just writing the above paragraphs - to live under the King and as one of his kingdom citizens.
Scot McKnight
#26. There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.
Leslie Mann
#27. The French use cooking as a means of self-expression, and this meal perfectly represented the personality of a cook who had spent the morning resting her unwashed chin on the edge of a tureen, pondering whether she should end her life immediately by plunging her head into her abominable soup ...
Rebecca West
#28. Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds.
Lisa Kleypas
#29. I don't know whether I make myself plain, but I never lose my temper over the stock market. I never argue with the tape. Getting sore at the market doesn't get you anywhere.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#30. By simply pondering what is good in your life every day, you will find that you're more productive, more relaxed, and more appreciative of your life regardless of what you are balancing at the time.
David Mezzapelle
#31. To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.
Paulo Coelho
#32. The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That's what it all comes down to.
Brian Greene
