Aimlessness Quotes

• Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

  John Ortberg

  Grit, Fruitful Life

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• Our life is what our thoughts make it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (3), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness.

  Hans Selye

  Suicide, Stress, Heart

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• Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

  James Allen

  Life, Men, People

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• As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

  Hans Selye

  Fear, Self Esteem, Approval Of Others

  hans selye (1974). “stress without distress”

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• Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

  Hans Selye

  Positive, Happiness, Attitude

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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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• We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.

  George Santayana

  Running, Holiday, Order

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• The more I read, the less I admire modern theology. the more I study the productions of the new schools of theological teachers, the more I marvel that men and women can be satisfied with such writings. There is a vagueness, a mistiness, a shallowness, an indistinctness, a superficiality, an aimlessness, a hollowness about the literature of the 'broader and kinder systems', as they are called, which to my mind stamps their origin on their face. They are of the earth, earthy.

  J. C. Ryle

  Teacher, Writing, School

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• Freedom doesn't mean aimlessness. We can't just sleepwalk through life.... Freedom demands structure.

  Garrison Keillor

  Freedom, Mean, Demand

  Garrison Keillor (2009). “Liberty: A Novel of Lake Wobegon”, p.24, Faber & Faber

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• There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Matter, Standards, Ideals

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• Yet if there's no reason to live without a child, how could there be with one? To answer one life with a successive life is simply to transfer the onus of purpose to the next generation; the displacements amounts to a cowardly and potentially infinite delay. Your children's answer, presumably, will be to procreate as well, and in doing so to distract themselves, to foist their own aimlessness onto their offspring.

  Lionel Shriver

  Children, Generations, Purpose

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.255, Counterpoint Press

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• When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat parties had, but the opposite has been true for me. I'm much less likely to feel that gnawing fear of aimlessness and nihilism than I used to be and that's partly because education gave me job opportunities, but it's mostly because education gave me perspective and context.

  John Green

  Education, Jobs, Party

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