Seriousness Quotes - Page 2

• Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor makes you more human, more humble. The sense of humor - according to me - is one of the most essential parts of religiousness.

  Rajneesh

  Humble, Aquariums, Essentials

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• Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

  Al Franken

  Opposition

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• Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.

  Michael J. Gelb

  Thinking, People, Mastery

  Michael J. Gelb (1996). “Lessons from the Art of Juggling: How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning, and Life”, Three Rivers Press

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• First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.

  David Brainerd

  Inspirational, Sobriety, Firsts

  Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1807). “The Works of President Edwards;: Narrative of conversions. Life and diary of the Rev. David Brainerd. Mr. Brainerd's journal. Mr. Brainerd's remains”, p.491

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• Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest.

  Piet Pieterszoon Hein

  Fun, Two, Shows

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• Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Maturity, Men

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• In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.

  Bob Ney

  Believe, Views, Law

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• Seriousness is a disease.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Disease, Inner Child

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• Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sides, Sincerity, Bores

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.9, OUP Oxford

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• Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Men, Play

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• When one gets reports from scientists, engineers and technicians whose credibility by all common standards is high and whose moral caliber seems to preclude a hoax, one can do no less than hear them out, in all seriousness.

  J. Allen Hynek

  Hoaxes, Moral, Common

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• Don't take life too seriously.

  RuPaul

  Life, Sarcastic, Funny Inspirational

  RuPaul (2010). “Workin' It!: RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• You can't think about how people will perceive you or your character. All you can do is focus on your work. The rest is up to the universe... I've been acting for 16 years. I've done 55 movies and, in all seriousness, there's maybe five that are good and the rest are crap.

  Robert Patrick

  Character, Thinking, Years

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

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• The ego can exist only if you take yourself and everything seriously. Nothing kills the ego like playfulness, like laughter. When you start taking life as fun, the ego has to die, it cannot exist anymore. Ego is illness; it needs an atmosphere of sadness to exist. Seriousness creates the sadness in you. Sadness is a necessary soil for the ego. Hence your saints are so serious, for the simple reason that they are the most egoistic people on the earth. They may be trying to be humble, but they are very proud of their humbleness. They take their humbleness very seriously.

  Rajneesh

  Laughter, Fun, Sadness

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• Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

  Albert Camus

  Death, Men, Effort

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• God is always joking. Look at your own life - it is a joke! Look at other people's lives, and you will find jokes and jokes and jokes. Seriousness is illness; seriousness has nothing spiritual about it. Spirituality is laughter, spirituality is joy, spirituality is fun.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Laughter, Fun

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• It's important to learn to laugh at ourselves. Don't take life too seriously.

  Geri Halliwell

  Life, Positive, Laughter

  Song: You're In A Bubble, Album: Schizophonic

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• Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.

  Anthea Turner

  Running, Home, Like You

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• A man of knowing attains to a sense of humour. Let this always be remembered. If you see someone who has no sense of humour, know well that that man has not known at all. If you come across a serious man, then you can be certain that he is a pretender. Knowing brings sincerity but all seriousness disappears. Knowing brings a playfulness; knowing brings a sense of humour. The sense of humour is a must.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Knowing, Serious Man

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• Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease. Laughter is egolessness.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Laughter, Essence

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• Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!

  Heinrich Böll

  Earnestness

  Heinrich Böll (1984). “What's to Become of the Boy?, Or, Something to Do with Books”, p.40, Northwestern University Press

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• Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Political, Politics, Serious

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• I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

  Oliver Stone

  War, Politics, Serious

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• For the Baul, life is not a serious thing. It is fun, it is laughter, it is joy. So you cannot find anything like the seriousness of a church-goer, or the long faces of so-called religious people in the world of the Bauls. They love laughter, they love fun. They enjoy small things with tremendous respect. Ordinarily, religions are very long-faced, very sombre, serious, because they have to be - they are against life.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Laughter, Fun

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• The cross shows us the seriousness of our sin-but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.

  Billy Graham

  Sin, God Love, Crosses

  Billy Graham (2008). “Wisdom for Each Day”, p.105, Thomas Nelson Inc

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