Aimless Life Quotes

• If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• I didn't want to be thirtysomething and not know what I was going to do. I was quite afraid of that, there were quite a lot of aimless kids around, in that 'other' side of my life, who didn't really know what to do because they always had a bank balance to fall back on and they were quite lost.

  Stella McCartney

  Fall, Kids, Balance

  "Lunch with Mariella: Stella McCartney". Interview With Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2010.

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• These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end.

  William C. Bryant

  Struggle, Fate, Tides

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Crowded Street”

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• The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, Life And Death, Tragedy

  Myles Munroe (2010). “Kingdom Principles Trade Paper: Preparing for Kingdom Experience and Expansion”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivation, Men

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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  A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2451, e-artnow

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  To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• Sometimes it may seem to us that there is no purpose in our lives, that going day after day for years to this office or that school or factory is nothing else but waste and weariness. But it may be that God has sent us there because but for us, Christ would not be there. If our being there means that Christ is there, that alone makes it worthwhile.

  Caryll Houselander

  Life, God, Religious

  Caryll Houselander, Marie Anne Mayeski (1991). “A Rocking-Horse Catholic: A Caryll Houselander Reader”, p.74, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

  Franz Kafka

  Life, Sleep, Novelists

  Franz Kafka (1971). “1910-1913. Tr. by Joseph Kresh”

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• When safety is our priority, we live our lives being very, very careful, and we wind up having no lives

  Byron Katie

  Wind, Safety, Priorities

  Twitter post from Dec 18, 2012

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• If I have a last wish, I want to remember you. In an aimless life, to not even have those memories would be hell.

  Lee Hyung-chul

  Memories, Drama, Remember You

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• Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Relaxation, This Life

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.126, BookBaby

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• Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Time, Health

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• An aimless life is always a troubled life. Every individual should have an aim. But do not forget that the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life. Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others. Whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realized unless you have realized perfection in yourself.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Should Have, Perfection, Quality

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• He who parades his virtues seldom leads the parade. He who puts up with insult invites injury. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Relaxation, Insult, Virtue

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