Bad Life Quotes

• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "An Enemy Called Average". Book by John L. Mason, 1990.

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• If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it

  Mary Engelbreit

  Inspirational, Change, Attitude

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• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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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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• When things go really really bad - life is going to have its way with you no matter who you are - and when things get really really bad, that's the time to stand up and keep going, and to push, not to fall down or run away.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Running, Fall, Matter

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 3, 2014.

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• I am living proof that no matter how bad life gets, it gets better.

  Gerard Way

  Get Better, Matter, Proof

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  Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein's letter to his son Eduard (February 5, 1930), as quoted in Walter Isaacson "Einstein: His Life and Universe" (p. 367), 2007.

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• The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

  Carl Jung

  Good Life, Fire, Differences

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• Make it look like your skin is not so angry at you for your bad life choices.

  Jenna Marbles

  Makeup, Choices, Skins

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• Note to self: no matter how bad life gets, there's always beer.

  Norm MacDonald

  Beer, Self, Matter

  "My Year Of Flops Norm MacDonald's Film Career Died For Your Sins Case File #133: Dirty Work" by Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 18, 2009.

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• Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

  Oscar Wilde

  Failure, Taste, Excuse

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• We're not going to waste our valuable space or your precious energy by giving equal time to stories of tragedy, failure, and tumult. They get far more that their fair share of attention everywhere else. Future historians might even conclude that our age suffered from a collective obsessive-compulsive disorder: the pathological need to repetitively seek out reasons for how bad life is.

  Rob Brezsny

  Media, Space, Giving

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.66, Frog Books

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• The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope.

  Stephen Hawking

  Mistake, Thinking, Should Have

  "Feature: 'There's life, there's hope': Stephen Hawking", en.people.cn. June 14, 2006.

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• Get it out of your head that wine’s just a drink. Real wine is like a missing human gene. It vaccinates you against mundanity, against bad life.

  D.B.C. Pierre

  Real, Wine, Missing

  DBC Pierre (2011). “Lights Out in Wonderland: A Novel”, p.74, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If you've lived a bad life, they send you to Hell. But if you've been truly wicked, they give you a tour of
  Heaven first.

  Spider Robinson

  Giving, Heaven, Wicked

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• I am just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City and my grandparents were wheat farmers. I thought painting, acting, directing and photography were all part of being an artist. I have made my money that way. And I have had some fun. It's not been a bad life.

  Dennis Hopper

  Photography, Fun, Artist

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

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• I remain committed to my core family as one I can trust and depend on. The end result is the assurance that I'm surrounded by the people who will help me, stick by me, and fight alongside me, through good and bad, life and death.

  Sonny Barger

  Fighting, People, Life And Death

  FaceBook post by Sonny Barger from Feb 15, 2015

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• The adult May fly lives only a few hours, just long enough to mate. He has neither mouth nor stomach, but needs neither since he does not live long enough to need to eat. The eggs the May fly leaves hatch after the parent has died. What is it all about. What's the point? There is no point. That's just the way it is. It is neither good nor bad. Life is mainly simply inevitable. (41)

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Eggs, Long, Parent

  SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”

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• Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

  H. G. Wells

  Community, Criminals, Literature

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.54, Inkling Books

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• No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments.

  Regina Brett

  Bad Day, Moments

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• Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Withen 5 minutes of the transfusion he declared her out of danger. Chucking her under the chin, he said, "What are you doing here, honey? Your not even old enough to know how bad life gets." And it was then Cecelia gave orally what was to be her only form of suicide note, and a useless one at that, because she was going to live: "Obviously, Doctor," she said, "you've never been a 13 year old girl.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Suicide, Doctors

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• A lover of what is looks forward to everything: life, death, disease, loss, earthquakes, bombs, anything the mind might be tempted to call 'bad.' Life will bring us everything we need, to show us what we haven't undone yet. Nothing outside ourselves can make us suffer. Except for our unquestioned thoughts, every place is paradise.

  Byron Katie

  Loss, Earthquakes, Mind

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.74, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.

  Colin Powell

  Mentor, Important, Way

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