Quotes About Stagnant Life

#1. Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.

Samuel Johnson

#2. You don't just become something in life. You evolve and grow; otherwise you get bored and remain stagnant.

Anthea Syrokou

#3. Life changes. It's usually in the blink of an eye. One minute everything's fine, if not stagnant; then, it's not. But your character's not defined by what happens to you but by how you respond to those emotionally significant events. Who will you become when your life turns on a dime?

Bobby Cole

#4. The pollenless trees were genomed to repel bugs and birds; the stagnant air reeked of insecticide.

David Mitchell

#5. If you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming Egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid.

Pope Francis

#6. Better crawl each day than to sleep each day! They that crawl each day move each day, but they that sleep each day stay where they are each day!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#7. Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side.

Casey Stengel

#8. I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant.

Kevin Smith

#9. ... dwelling and planning is bullshit," he says. "You dwell on the past, you can't move forward. Spend too much time planning for the future and you just push yourself backwards, or you say stagnant in the same place all your life." His eyes lock on mine. "Live in the moment.

J.A. Redmerski

#10. Easier said than done' is the mantra of the stagnant; the creed of the unchanging.

Steve Maraboli

#11. Human life moves only in one direction - toward disease, damage, and death. The best you can hope for is to remain stagnant or, in certain cases, return to a previous condition when things weren't as bad as they've become for you.

Thomas Ligotti

#12. Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#13. Never underestimate the power of gaining a new perspective by simply changing your immediate environment. Going for a walk, reading a book, or talking to a friend can provide you with life-changing insights that you not otherwise attain while remaining stagnant.

Hal Elrod

#14. You must live your story.

Michael Ende

#15. Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

Agatha Christie

#16. I've put my life back together, but it's all a growing process and that's neat, too, because if you stop growing, what good is it musically? So that is what I am looking forward to - growing. In some ways, I felt stagnant in my life and it showed.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

#17. Look around you. Everything changes. Everything on this earth is in a continuous state of evolving, refining, improving, adapting, enhancing ... changing. You were not put on this earth to remain stagnant.

Steve Maraboli

#18. If you're not changing, evolving with the times, there's a pretty good chance that you're stagnant, dying, already dead, or just a rock in someone's shoe.

Ray Palla

#19. The deep love that is born of friendship can too easily become stagnant when life becomes busy.

Glenn C. Stewart

#20. From human problems come human solutions, which in turn spawn inspiration, creativity, insight and enlightenment. Without life's problems, life would become stagnant, dull and boring.

Beth Johnson

#21. The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant.

Orison S. Marden

#22. Always re-invent yourself. Always try new things; new food, new hobbies, meet new people. That will keep your life from becoming stagnant and boring. And you will have a lot more fun!

Lisa Bedrick

#23. But when they changed their plans time and time again, the dates became confused, the periods were mislaid, and one day seemed so much like another that one could not feel them pass.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#24. Online games for data-mining have a short virtual shelf life. People get bored, especially if the game seems stagnant.

Peter Diamandis

#25. But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the life in those which already existed.

John Stuart Mill

#26. Without people coming in to our lives we never evolve, we just remain stagnant. Surely there is more to life than standing still whilst letting it pass you by. What's even worse, is living a life pretending to be someone, or something that you believe others want you to be.

Skye High

#27. Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

John Sterling

#28. The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.

Anna Julia Cooper

#29. Toxically shamed people tend to become more and more stagnant as life goes on. They live in a guarded, secretive and defensive way. They try to be more than human (perfect and controlling) or less than human (losing interest in life or stagnated in some addictive behavior).

John Bradshaw

#30. A life without change is not a life; it is a stagnant pool ...

Alan Cohen

#31. I had begun to feel that life was a repetition of the same thing; that there was nothing new either in me or in him; and that, on the contrary, we kept going back as it were on what was old.

Leo Tolstoy

#32. Grab tightly to the reigns of passion and ride into glory for without it life would be stagnant and you would be a spirit without cause.

Donna Lynn Hope

#33. This will sound ridiculous, I guess, but my life had started to feel so stagnant, like it was atrophied. Everything shrunk down to the roles I played. I had loved doing them, Dee, I really had, but they were drying up, and they weren't really me.

Sue Monk Kidd

#34. Stagnant people tend to live stagnant lives.

Toni Sorenson

#35. As we embark on a new chapter of our lives, our focus must be on what the future holds. We can look back from the old memories but mustn't stay there and be stagnant for life is meant to let you move forward and not backwards.

Elizabeth E. Castillo