Taking Life Too Seriously Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost.

Seamus Heaney

#4. Callous greed grows pious very fast.

Lillian Hellman

#5. I think it's a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.

Ai Weiwei

#6. 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

#7. Hail, Aslan. We hear ans obey. We are awake. We love. We think. We speak. We know.

C.S. Lewis

#8. 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

#9. I'm happy to be where I am and how everything has turned out.

Tyson Chandler

#10. 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

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

Tsem Tulku

#12. 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

#13. It isn't the evil and indecent who are flung down into the depths, no! Oh, no! The evil and decisive fling down those who are moral, honest and noble but maladroit, hesitant and full of scruples.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#14. Maybe some people just had trouble with forever.

Deb Caletti

#15. 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

#16. An enlightened person has real power and when they think a good thought, the tremendous power of attention causes their students to actually lift up into those states. It brings a power into their lives.

Frederick Lenz

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. A bestseller is a book that non-book buyers buy

Toni Morrison

#20. Taking life seriously requires taking death seriously.

Studs Terkel

#21. 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

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

Bill Hicks

#23. 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

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

Annie Chapman

#25. ..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

#26. 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

#27. We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

Gaylord Nelson

#28. 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

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

Hunter S. Thompson

#30. You go and find who you really are, and don't let anyone stop you.

Diana Wynne Jones

#31. We use committees for all the ulterior purposes for which they might have been designed: diffusion of executive responsibility, plausible deniability, misdirection, providing the appearance of activity without the substance, and protecting the guilty.

Charles Stross

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. I attribute a lot of the success to Live 105, of course, because it's something they've nurtured and grown.

Davey Havok

#38. Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.

Lindsay Wagner

#39. The black asphalt wouls shimmer with vapors I had a theory about those vapors ... not released by the sun but by a huge onion buried under the city. This onion made us cry ... I thought about the giant onion, that remarkable bulb of sadness.

Gary Soto

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

Deborah Blake