Quotes About Taking Life Seriously

#1. Many who think that they are taking life seriously are actually only taking themselves seriously. Who takes himself seriously is over conscious of his rights; who takes life seriously is fully conscious of his obligations.

Joseph T. O'Callahan

#2. Taking life seriously requires taking death seriously.

Studs Terkel

#3. Angels have a sense of humor ... The angels wants us to enjoy life. Have a good laugh at yourself every now and again for taking life seriously. Then take time to laugh with the angels!

Margaret Neylon

#4. Oh sorry, I was taking life seriously.

Bill Hicks

#5. Why read fiction when real life can be just as interesting?

LHandLG

#6. One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.

Edward T. Hall

#7. When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.

Ice-T

#8. I don't need extra hours to clear my mind. I just need to stop taking everything seriously and drown myself in worry. All I need is to be a child again. To be free. And, start living again!

Saru Singhal

#9. There's nowhere you can aggregate more people in one fell swoop than a broadcast network; there's no place you can build a star quicker than you can on a broadcast network.

Jon Feltheimer

#10. Whenever you make a big decision in life, at least any decision
where you have a viable alternative, there is an inevitable uneasy aftermath.
Anxiety is merely a sign that you're taking something seriously.

Emily Giffin

#11. I was taking myself very seriously when I was going through life changes. And I realized that I needed to laugh at myself, particularly at my mistakes.

Spencer Johnson

#12. You've got to face facts and the fact is life is a joke, a fucking bad joke, or, no, a bad fucking joke. There's no point taking it seriously because whatever happens, and I mean whatever the fuck, the punch line is the same: you go out horizontally. You see the point? No fucking point.

Jeet Thayil

#13. Consistency in life is so important for success. It stems from taking what we are doing seriously.

Tsem Tulku

#14. Instead of taking the camp's difficulties as a test of their inner strength, they did not take their life seriously and despised it as something of no consequence. They preferred to close their eyes and to live in the past. Life for such people became meaningless.

Viktor E. Frankl

#15. Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.

Lord Byron

#16. Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra.

Vanessa Carlton

#17. Somewhere along the way, I think I realised that taking yourself seriously is the worst thing that you can do in life, so once I let that go, I've just let it all go. I have no standard of personal dignity.

Casey Wilson

#18. Elise, you're taking this too seriously. We're men. If we have a problem, we punch one another. It's just how we handle things.

K.M. Shea

#19. To love is to act.

Victor Hugo

#20. Donata seriously considered taking up a life of crime just so she could pay to have this coffee every morning,

Deborah Blake

#21. Life is supposed to be fun! When you're having fun, you feel great and you receive great things! Having fun brings the life you want, and taking things too seriously brings a life you have to take seriously.

Rhonda Byrne

#22. If life is no fun, it is because you are no fun. Your life is always a reflection of who you are ... Try this: Stop taking things, including yourself, so seriously. Life is not as complicated as you have made it out to be.

Larry Winget

#23. Spiritual life is a way of dwelling with perplexity - taking it seriously, searching for its purpose as well as its perils, its beauty as well as its ravages. In

Krista Tippett

#24. I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.

Walker Percy

#25. Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

Hunter S. Thompson

#26. When you focus on the positive, the blessings and the humor and just do your thing and you stop worrying SO much about what every one else is thinking and doing and STOP taking life way too seriously ... Awesomeness happens!

Tanya Masse

#27. That's a pretty serious club, requiring tattoos. I thought only math club did that. - Jayke to Amber-

Shawn Keenan

#28. He had realized that the labels he had been taking so seriously are human inventions
it's all a game. The Number 68 is invented and the A is invented, so we might as well choose to invent something that brightens our life and the lives of the people around us.

Benjamin Zander

#29. I don't know who I'm crying for right now, but my heart hurts so much I just want to rip it from my fucking chest and throw it over Ridge's balcony, because that's where this whole mess began.

Colleen Hoover

#30. ..i'd like to take my professional life, my career, my writing, my family and my friends seriously, but please, please protect me from ever taking myself too seriously.... Seumas

Seumas Gallacher

#31. Living simply means concentrating on what's important in light of eternity. And not taking the rest of life too seriously.

Annie Chapman

#32. I'm not taking a chance. I feel like I can't breathe without you. I'm just doing what I need to do to survive. It's as simple as that."
"Then let me be your air," he says quietly.

M. Leighton

#33. You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.

Ann Patchett

#34. Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.

Elihu Root